DAVID CONYERS

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David Conyers is science fiction author and editor from Adelaide, South Australia. He has a degree in engineering from the University of Melbourne, and today works in marketing communications. David’s fiction has appeared in magazines such as Albedo One, Ticon4, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Book of Dark Wisdom, Lovecraft eZine and Jupiter, as well as more than twenty anthologies. His previous books include the science fiction Cthulhu Mythos blended thriller, The Eye of Infinity published by Perilous Press and the prequel The Spiraling Worm co-authored with John Sunseri. Previous anthologies he has edited include Extreme Planets, Cthulhu Unbound 3, Cthulhu’s Dark Cults and Undead & Unbound. His e-books include The Uncertainty Bridge and The Impossible Object.

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New Kindle Book: The Entropy Conflict

Posted by David Conyers on May 21, 2013 at 4:30 PM Comments comments (0)

My latest e-book, The Entropy Conflict has just gone up on line at Amazon around the world, with more of my science fiction short stories, including the never before publisher titular story.

 

 

 

"Conyers delivers inventive SF with a unique perspective on society and the human cond...

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New Kindle Book: The Uncertainty Bridge

Posted by David Conyers on May 5, 2013 at 1:45 AM Comments comments (0)

Following on from the last post, I've also released some of my 'cyberpunk' tales on one collection on Amazon Kindle, The Uncertainty Bridge.

 

 

 

This will be the first of several of my science fiction works collected again, and my foray into the world on online publishing.

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New Kindle Book: The Impossible Object

Posted by David Conyers on May 5, 2013 at 1:35 AM Comments comments (0)

I've rebooted the Harrison Peel stories, with the first release The Impossible Object on Amazon Kindle.

I want to revisit the series, and tighten it, add more tales, and basically build an overall story arc to develop Peel and his place in the Cthulhu Mythos. Think Lovecraft meets...

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Cthulhu Unbound 3 Australian Shadows Finalist

Posted by David Conyers on March 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM Comments comments (0)

I am pleased to announce that Brian M Sammons and I have made the finalist list for Australia's top horror fiction award, the Australian Shadows in the Edited Publication category. This is the fourth time I've been nominated for the award, and maybe this year I might win, but I'm up against some strong competition with Surviving to the End by Craig Bezant and The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & ...

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"The Masked Messenger" in Lovecraft eZine #22

Posted by David Conyers on March 12, 2013 at 7:55 AM Comments comments (0)

My Harrison Peel collaboration, written with John Goodrich, is now available to read online at Lovecraft eZine.

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Cthulhu Unbound 3 and "The R'lyeh Singularity" Reviews

Posted by David Conyers on February 4, 2013 at 4:00 AM Comments comments (0)

Cthulhu Unbound 3, and my Brian M. Sammons co-authored novella in the anthology "The R'lyeh Singularity", has been receiving some positive reviews of late and its sales figures on Amazon.com are rocketing up the sales list. Here are excerpts some of them that I thought I might share if you are thinking about purchasing this anthology and are undecided:

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CTHULHU UNBOUND 3

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New Harrison Peel tale "The Road to Afghanistan"

Posted by David Conyers on January 30, 2013 at 6:25 AM Comments comments (0)

My latest Harrison Peel adventure, “The Road to Afghanistan” has just been released in the anthology What Scares the Boogeyman? Edited by John Manning and published by Perseid Press. This story takes Peel to Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan in his hunt to track down Taliban controlled weapons of ...

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Lynn Willis

Posted by David Conyers on January 23, 2013 at 6:15 AM Comments comments (0)

It was sad news to hear that Lynn Wills at Chaosium recently died. Lynn was Chaosium's editor in chief and instrumental in making Call of Cthulhu the game on 18 January 2013. He will be greatly missed. I found him to be an excellent editor. He was the first editor I worked with, and he was instrumental in making my books Secrets of Kenya, Cthulhu’s Dark Cults and The Spiraling Worm,...

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Extreme Planets Line-up

Posted by David Conyers on January 15, 2013 at 4:55 AM Comments comments (0)

 

Here it is, the blurb and line-up to Extreme Planets.

 

 

Two decades ago astronomers confirmed the existence of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Today more than 800 such worlds have been identified, and scientists now esti...

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Scorecard 2012

Posted by David Conyers on January 1, 2013 at 8:45 PM Comments comments (0)

Every year I like to compile a summary of my writing, editing and publishing for the year that was. 2012 unfortunately wasn’t as productive as past years for me, at least not in terms of publications. It was the year of collaborations too. That said I do have A LOT of projects under development that I can’t talk about yet, but hopefully I will soon.

 

I had two new stories published in 2012, “Expectant Green” with John Kenny, a science fiction novella ...

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