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The time of Achamoth af M. K. Joseph

Lovecraft's Book af Richard A. Lupoff

The Lakes of Mars af Chris Orsman

Echo Round His Bones (Panther science fiction) af Thomas M Disch

Love All af Elizabeth Jane Howard

Stranger than fiction: The life and times of Split Enz af Mike Chunn

The Abominable Snow-Women af Dorothy Braxton

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SamlingerDit bibliotek (543), Læser for øjeblikket (9), Skal læses (33), Læst, men ikke ejet (10), Alle samlinger (553)

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Nøgleordfiction (295), novel (197), poetry (142), nonfiction (133), science fiction (133), collection (91), New Zealand poetry (90), short stories (65), New Zealand (62), anthology (61) — se alle nøgleord

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Grupper50-Something Library Thingers, Best Anthologies, Bloggers, Book Nudgers, Club Read 2009, Cricket, Cthulhu Mythos, Fans of Russian authors, Humor, I Survived the Great Vowel Shift — vis alle grupper

YndlingsforfattereAnna Akhmatova, Dante Alighieri, J. G. Ballard, Alison Bechdel, Jorge Luis Borges, Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, Angela Carter, Paul Celan, Suzy McKee Charnas, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, John Crowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Sergeˆi Aleksandrovich Esenin, Ramachandra Guha, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Hope Hodgson, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Bill Manhire, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Munro, Mark Pirie, Tim Powers, Helen Rickerby, Harry Ricketts, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr., J. R. R. Tolkien, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Gene Wolfe (Fælles favoritter)

Om migI'm an author and editor. My latest book, co-edited with Mark Pirie, is Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, an anthology of new and reprinted New Zealand science fiction poetry. You can buy Voyagers from Amazon.com as a paperback or Kindle e-book (search for "Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry"), or from Fishpond. You can also find out more about Voyagers, and buy it directly from the publisher, at the Voyagers mini-site.

My latest book as an author is short fiction collection Transported, published by Vintage (Random House New Zealand). The publishers' blurb from their Transported page sums this collection up pretty well:

A well-known poet pursues his elusive muse; a Kiwi makes himself indispensable in Oz; a revolutionary fast-food franchise revs up Russia's economy; a racing-car driver is airborne; temperate Otago exports its kiwifruit worldwide; a Frenchman called Foucault puts in the hard yards at an antipodean dairy farm - all while water laps at our feet, our homes, our lives . . . With Tim Jones' stories you should expect the unexpected. This remarkably refreshing collection uses a lively mix of genres, taking readers on flights of fancy, transports of delight, and even occasional trips of nostalgia. Some of the stories are unique ways of looking at the everyday and ordinary, others take us out of this world. They are funny, moving, insightful and, above all, delightfully different.

In case you need any more convincing, "New Zealand Books" (the NZ equivalent of the LRB or NYRB) called Transported "dazzling and highly entertaining" in its review - and who am I to argue with that?

"The New Neighbours", a story from Transported, has recently been selected for inclusion in the Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories, edited by Paula Morris.

My other recent books are poetry collection All Blacks' Kitchen Gardens and fantasy novel Anarya's Secret, set in the universe of the Earthdawn roleplaying game.

Om mit bibliotekI started by uploading a selection of books from my library, reflecting my three main areas of reading: science fiction and fantasy, literary fiction (especially Russian and Spanish-language fiction in translation), and poetry - especially New Zealand poetry and European and South American poetry in translation. I've also got a bunch of cricket books, books about Antarctica, and science fiction fanzines. Most of the books listed, I own; books I don't own are tagged with the name of the library from which I borrowed them. Books I've written are tagged but not rated.

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Rigtigt navnTim Jones

StedWellington, New Zealand

E-mailtimjonesactrix.co.nz

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Medlem sidenDec 25, 2007

Læser for øjeblikketAnti-nation : transition to sustainability af Fred H. Knelman
Swings and roundabouts : poems on parenthood af Emma Neale
Fotheringhay and other poems af John Greening
The State Counsellor: Further Adventures of Fandorin af Boris Akunin
AUP new poets three af Janis Freegard
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Thank you very much for replying to my question. I have in fact now ordered the book, as I managed to find a seller who didn't overcharge for postage.

skrevet af Teazle kl. 12:03 pm (EST) den Oct 6, 2009

Tim, Belletrista is LIVE now! (so you can see the first issue; apparently I don't have a regular email address for you) www.belletrista.com Best, Lois

skrevet af avaland kl. 6:54 pm (EST) den Sep 13, 2009

Thanks a million for the great list of climate change fiction titles. I'll try to track these down later this week and hopefully find a few in my local library system.

Tracy Fox

skrevet af tracyfox kl. 11:54 am (EST) den Jun 2, 2009

Thanks a million for the great list of climate change fiction titles. I'll try to track these down later this week and hopefully find a few in my local library system.

Tracy Fox

skrevet af tracyfox kl. 11:54 am (EST) den Jun 2, 2009

Saw your thread on Reading Globally and wondered if you might be able to help me out. I too work on climate change issues and am updating a recommended reading list that travels to local libraries in Central Illinois in the US.

Some of my climate change group members have requested that I include fiction dealing with climate change. All I have come up with is the horrid book by M Crichton (which I'm not including) and Kim Stanley Robinson's trilogy that starts with Forty Days of Rain.

Another request was for a book on geoengineering solutions ... I know Tim Flannery has spoken about it in the press and maybe some of it will be included in his book to be published this fall. Do you know of any other non-technical books that talk about this topic?

Thanks for any help you can provide. Tracy Fox

skrevet af tracyfox kl. 2:48 pm (EST) den May 28, 2009

Angela Carter...Paul Celan...Arthur C. Clarke.

I have been called eclectic in my tastes, but that trifecta from your favorite authors list pretty well defines the term. The US market appears oddly bereft of your work, can't think why since it sounds pretty darned interesting.

Time to work the web! Good fortune!

Cheers
RMD

skrevet af richardderus kl. 10:03 pm (EST) den Feb 25, 2009

Hi Tim: thanks for the compliment. Dying to hear what you think of Kate Camp after the poetry reading!
Tui

skrevet af tiffin kl. 7:38 pm (EST) den Feb 9, 2009

Excellent! Will send it out this week. - L

skrevet af avaland kl. 8:34 am (EST) den Feb 8, 2009

Tim--per your recommendation I've just added The Snail on the slope by the Strugatsky's--arrived in the mail today anyway--it's a little battered but I don't think there is a whole lot of them out there--and not sure when I'll get to it but hopefully in the next month.

skrevet af lriley kl. 1:52 pm (EST) den Feb 7, 2009

Hi Tim

Thank you for your warm welcome on Introductions.

I'm trying to read through people's threads and I noticed early in Urania's thread a discussion of Tatanya Tolstaya. I read The Slynx in January. It's a 1984-like dystopian novel set 200 years in the future after an event known as "the Blast," in which most of the characters suffer from a "Consequence" of the Blast. Since your profile says you like science fiction, you might like it, if you haven't already read it.

I also picked up a couple of your recommendations for books about Antarctica at another thread (don't remember where). Thanks.

Also, I'm very impressed that you are a writer. I spend my life writing dull legal briefs, and I envy people who make language come alive. I will be searching for your books to read.

Deborah

skrevet af arubabookwoman kl. 6:27 pm (EST) den Feb 5, 2009

Hi,
I saw your comment about an Elizabeth Jane Howard binge on a message board (I forget which) and sensed a kndred spirit. I picked up one of hers at a sale and liked it, ordered the next 3 on Amazon, and about a week later was ill enough to have to stay in bed and read them. I got through all of the Cazalet books in 2 days - she's obviously prime binging material!

skrevet af Goldengrove kl. 6:26 am (EST) den Jan 23, 2009

Hey Tim, thanks for the invite to the Club Read Group. Sorry it took so long to get back to you! No excuses heh. I'm going to decline simply because I belong to the 75 challenge group and I find that one hard enough to keep up with! However, I'm going to keep the Club Read group on Watch, just in case I find myself changing my mind. :)

Cheers - hope the New Year period went well for you.

K

skrevet af Severn kl. 6:26 am (EST) den Jan 21, 2009

I guess it's safe to say fiction, but short stories,horror, fantasy. I'm afraid to attempt Sci-fi. I don't feel confident enough but I like complete freedom in creating a setting or scenario that is out of the ordinary. When I say fantasy I don't mean fairy stuff, I guess you might say magical realism. Where the situation and characters are just a bit off, just enough to put a fanciful slant to the story. For instance, I submitted a story about a young boy who realizes that his neighbor, an older man, has drugged his wife and allowed her to be trapped in a house fire. I used descriptions of the weather and a sort of dream sequence to make the story seem a bit other-wordly. I don't know if I succeeded but that is what I was going for. They did not use it, so I plan to work on it and see if I can improve it. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for the info on ordering your book.

skrevet af mmignano11 kl. 9:21 pm (EST) den Jan 5, 2009

Hi Tim, I hope to widen my list of aquaintances on LT this year and I like that we don't share too many books. I would like to experience something different this year and am sure you have something to share. I have been exposed to a considerable amount of poetry, although I read mostly prose. But when I attended college (grad. in 1999)one of my mentors was a well-published Southern Jersey (US)poet and a professor at Stockton College,New Jersey. Gratefully, I attended many readings and met many wonderful poets, among them Billy Collins. I'm a great fan of fantasy, also, but have not read nearly enough. I try to write daily, and have submitted to some periodicals and literary journals. The time that I used to spend reading, I now spend writing, but something had to give. I am quite interested in your books, but if I had to choose I think I would want to order "Transported." Can I do that from the link on your page to the NZ page there? It seems simple enough and looks like a gorgeous book. Happy New Year, Mary Beth

skrevet af mmignano11 kl. 3:06 pm (EST) den Jan 5, 2009

Tim, I have ordered your poetry collection from NZ Books Abroad. I am curious, of course, now that I have gotten to know you a little better through your reading and writing, what 'kind' of poetry you write:-) I would be interested in hearing who your poetry influences are. Michael (Dukedom) will probably poke around in the collection also, but he rarely reads a collection cover to cover like I do (well, I don't exactly read them cover to cover, it's a bit more of a hop around until all are read).

Best, Lois

skrevet af avaland kl. 11:17 am (EST) den Dec 21, 2008

Hi Tim

Thanks for the interest in my library too! It seems we share an eclectic mix of books read and unread (in my case more of the latter). I'm certainly intrigued. Anyone who's an admirer of Riddley Walker, Borges' poetry, Gene Wolfe and Alice Munro is likely writing for readers such as myself. By the way, do you speak (or rather, read) Russian? I studied it ages ago in university, but I'm quite rusty now, I'm afraid.

Jamie

skrevet af Jambyfool kl. 1:04 pm (EST) den Sep 11, 2008

Yeah Tim for a being a featured LT author! I will have to look out for your collections - I assume Unity will have them

Sarah

skrevet af SpicyCat kl. 3:00 am (EST) den Aug 3, 2008

Hi, Tim!

...Do you know what? My wife said exactly the same thing!

Realistically, I knew I'd never have made it on to the shortlist - there were just too many books there that I know are much better. But I'd have enjoyed the process anyway, and wanted (as ever!) to get a few pointers on which of the collections the judges were recommending me to read! (I'd very much like to buy all 39 of the nominees - well, 38, I'll take a pass on my own - but it'd take me a while to get through them!)

One of those, though, will be yours, because I hate the idea of being denied a book just because distribution isn't easy. So there! And I hope that, like my own, the nomination will have a positive impact upon your sales. I get the impression in its own humble way mine is doing okay.

skrevet af shearrob kl. 7:03 am (EST) den Jul 7, 2008

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