DAVID CONYERS / science fiction author

Rod MacDonald over at SF Crowsnest gave my latest short story publication, "Expectant Green", a rather cool review:

The opening piece, ‘Expectant Green’ by David Conyers and John Ken...

Prometheus, it's Ridley Scott doing science fiction, so I'm excited about this movie. There aren't many good sci-fi films, the last one was Inception. Hopefully this one is just as good, but going by the trailer, and Scott's classic sci-fi movies Alien and Bladerunner, this one has lots of promise. View the latest trailer here.

"Expectant Green", my first collaboration with Irish speculative fiction author and editor, John Kenny, is now available in Jupiter 35, edited by Ian Redman with a terrific cover from Sam Mardon. My first publication for 2012 and its my favorite genre, space opera, and out in print and epub formats. An extract follows:

Midnight Echo 6, the Science Fiction Horror special is well and truly out, in electronic and print versions. For the last interview it seems appropriate we speak with the last author in the collection, Mark Farrugia and his end of the world story “Seeds”.

READER WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE AND SEXUAL CONTENT FOLLOW.

A story I wrote over five years ago, "Soft Viscosity", got a rather nice review from sf writer, Guy Salvidge on his website. In fact, it was his favorite story in the anthology:

"Soft Viscosity” by ...

David Kernot, co-editor of Extreme Planets anthology has set up a website specifically for the book. We'll be posting updates, news on the book, links to interesting sites about exoplanets and sources for ideas for submissions, and anything else that interests us.

The first news item is my interview with D.L. Snell for

Issue 41 of Albedo One has just been released, and this issue features an interview I conducted with Iain M. Banks.

Issue 41

Having set ourselves the considerable challe...

Chaosium is making a big push into the speculative fiction anthology market at the moment. Here are some of the anthologies looking for submissions, one of which I'm co-editing:

• Extreme Planets edited by David Conyers, David Kernot and Jeff Harris (science fiction)
• T...

I'm editing a new anthology with David Kernot and Jeff Harris, Extreme Planets. It is a science fiction anthology about extrasolar planets that will be published by Chaosium. The submission guidelines are found

As the release date for Midnight Echo 6: The Science Fiction Horror Issue this week, we though we would introduce you to Joanne Anderton, who wrote one of the most original and bizarre stories in the line-up, “Out Hunting for Teeth”. Joanne’s writing strength is demonstrated by her recent novel publication, Debris out from Angry Robot.

1. What is your favou...