I have some distant memories of the first “concert” I attended when I was about 8 or 9. I have been trying to remember the band, they played lots of old tunes like the Wild Colonial Boy and Bound for Botany Bay. I think the band was Bullamakanka and while searching the interwebs I came across this
you can thank me later.
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If you are a fan of non-sparkly vampires then this one may be for you. It features Welsh actor Luke Evans, as Dracula and Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) as a very Nosferatu-esque elder vampire. Strikes me as a meshing of the Romanian nationalist version of the tale with a mixture of Stoker’s Dracula. Out in October apparently.
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What is Dimension 6 and How did it come about?
Short answer - a collection of free fiction, free from a price tag and free from DRM but containing the some of the cream of Australian SpecFic Writing.
Long answer – read Angela Slatter’s interview with Dimension 6 publisher Keith Stevenson of Coeur De Lion Publishing
Issue 2 features:
‘At Dawn’s Speed’ by Dirk Strasser
Swift and her tribe have been running their whole lives, because the touch of the sun brings the ‘silvering’.
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‘Upon a Distant Shore’ by Alan Baxter
Astronaut Anatoly Novikov wanted a mission that would inscribe his name on the ages. Finally he got one.
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‘He Ain’t Dead’ by Robert N Stephenson
It’s simple really. Don’t mess with native American burial mounds.
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