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My story Flytrap placed second in SF Reader’s annual short story contest, which is truly cool. I would have loved to win the top prize, of course, but with such a high-profile site and big entry, I am truly delighted to have been one of the winners. You can read the story here, and if you like airships in a non-steampunk setting, I recommend it!
Complete list of winners:
1st – Fetus-in-Fetu, by James A. Mangum
2nd – Flytrap, by Gustavo Bondoni
3rd – Price of War, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes
A new review of my stand-alone novella, Branch (Amazon, B&N) by Rob Darnell has been posted! He liked it (hooray!).
You can read the review here.
For those who enjoy a fun romp, Gustavo’s tale “War and Peace Pipes” has been published at Swords and Sorcery Magazine. You can read it here, and who wouldn’t want to? After all, it contains Vikings, Gods and some very skeptical Native Americans… what is there not to like?
Gustavo’s short story “Time To Reflect” appeared in Falling Star Magazine – Issue #19, Winter 2014 “A Very Creepy Christmas”, you can buy it here.
Some might want to tag this book as quirky, wry, whimsical, witty, zany – along with other words begun by letters we rarely see at the front, for good reason I suspect. In truth we all know these words are used by pretentious people when they want to say funny. This book is funny. There, said and done. There are types of humour and this book has a few, but for all that the truth is this book made me laugh, which isn’t easy, and working on it was a pleasant experience. Believe me, as an editor that is divine! As a big fan of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, I’m well aware that telling jokes is one thing, writing them another. Gustavo Bondoni, or Gus as we call him, does this extremely well. The comedy is smooth. It fits, it comes in naturally and never gets in the way of the narrative. If I hadn’t known better I would have thought the author British for his delivery and dry wit, and I can think of no higher praise (being British myself).
From Steven Beeho´s Introduction
“Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places” is a collection of science fiction stories which have delighted readers of various genre magazines, available together for the first time!
REVIEWS
of “Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places”:
“…old skool SF where the premise takes centre stage without taking all day.”
Peadar O’Guilín – Author of The Inferior
Read Beam Me Up´s Review here
Read Bruce Durham´s Review here
Read Todd Wheeler´s Review here
Read The Portal´s Review here
A Mad Artist Prepares Himself TO Work On An Unimaginable Scale As The Whole Galaxy Watches… The Man Who Solved The World’s Food Problem Wonders If Other Things Might Be More Important… Virtuoso is a collection of science fiction stories from the fertile imagination of Gustavo Bndoni. Science Fiction is a journey that begins with the question “what if?”, and in th collection, the reader will find it asked and answered numerous times. The answers are sometimes comforting, sometimes bewildering, and sometimes saddening, but always thought-provoking.
REVIEWS
of “Virtuoso and Other Stories”:
” …On one hand I have to admire how some of the tales in this collection natter at your brain, making you wonder how the characters resolved some crisis. Good stories can do that: linger in your mind long after you’ve finished reading them. ”
Abyss & Apex
Read Abyss & Apex full Review here