Adventures in Bat Country

Check out the interactive google-map created for the Shine anthology.

http://daybreakmagazine.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/shine-excerpts-scheherazade-cast-in-starlight/

http://futurismic.com/2010/04/22/book-review-shine-an-anthology-of-optimistic-science-fiction-by-jetse-de-vries-ed/

Stepping a little further out in time, Mari Ness’ “Twittering The Stars” echoes Stoddard’s dreams of humans beyond the gravity well, though her spacepersons are on a scientific mission; the reversed Tweet-stream format is a Zeitgeisty update on the epistolary or diary-style story that will look dated long before its underlying theme of the fragility of human life in space does. Last but not least among what we might label the ‘hard optimist’ stories are two short and almost literary pieces: Paul Stiles’ “Sustainable Development” is a homily about foreign aid, technology and gender in Africa, and “Scheherezade Cast In Starlight” by Jason Andrew draws hope – and emotional clout – from the role of social media in the recent democratic protests in Iran.

A good review can totally make a writer’s day. This one put me on the moon.

http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=10547

Quote about my story:

Scheherazade Cast In Starlight by Jason Andrew is a strong, sharp story about an Iranian woman who uses her kills to tell the world of her country in all it's brutality. She recounts how her mother had been thrown in jail for drug abuse, but her only crime was being elected to the parliament. If you read this and you mistakenly think it's the one story in Shine that's downbeat, it isn't. Here we have a modern day storyteller who gets the world to listen, who empowers and who becomes the face of what a patriarchal society tries to destroy. Spikey, vivid storytelling.