Angry Robot short story competition

Sara Douglass: Voyager Author of the Month

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, South Australia, and moved to Adelaide when she was seven. She spent her early working life as a nurse before completing three degrees at the University of Adelaide. After receiving a PhD in early modern English history,Sara worked as a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at La Trobe University, Bendigo, until 2000.

Sara's first novel, BattleAxe, was published in 1995 and she wrote a further 19 books of epic and historical fantasy fiction, a collection of short stories, and two books of non-fiction. Three of her novels won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy and many were shortlisted. Sara shifted to Hobart, Tasmania, in 2005 and lived there writing full-time and restoring her beautiful old house and garden, until her death in September 2011.

Sara's last book, The Devil's Diadem, has just been nominated for a Norma K Hemming Award and is now out in paperback.

About The Devil's Diadem:

A foolish monk stole the Devil's favourite diadem and the Devil wants it back. It is mid-twelfth century Europe and Maeb Langtofte joins an aristocratic household to attend Adelie, the wife of the Earl of Pengraic. The earl is a powerful Lord of the Marches, the dark Welsh borderlands. Then a plague that has swept Europe overtakes England and as life descends into chaos and civil disorder, Maeb is about to discover that the horrors she survived at Pengraic Castle were but a prelude to the terrifying maelstrom which now envelops her and all of her countryfolk.

Angry Robot short story competition

Posted on August 11, 2009 by voyageronline

You could get your short story included in Lauren Beukes’ next book, Zoo City, to be published by Angry Robot in May 2010. All you have to do is set your story in the universe of Lauren’s debut novel, Moxyland.

The competitionwas launched at the Science Fiction Convention in Montreal on Friday, and the three winners will be announced at the FantasyCon convention in Nottingham, England in September.

The competition is being run in conjunction with authonomy.com, and Moxyland is available to read for free there while the competition is running.

Moxyland is South African Beukes’ debut novel. Set in the near future it is a thriller about technological progress and the freedoms it removes. It tells the story of four characters who live in a world where online identity is at least as important as physical identity.

Author Lauren Beukes said: “A book stops being yours the moment it ventures out on its own in public and gets read by other people. I love the idea of people being able to play with Moxyland, to put their own spin on the world and the characters, remix and transmute them into new and exciting things I wouldn’t have thought of.”

More information to come – but see AngryRobotBooks for more info! (And the comp is worldwide – no restrictions on Australians or anyone else entering.)