Julian Mortimer Smith

My short story, “Joey LeRath’s Rocketship,” has been published over at Daily Science Fiction.

Just found out my short story, “Joey LeRath’s Rocketship,” is being published by Daily Science Fiction on Valentine’s day.  Strange day for publication given the story’s content (you’ll see).

I just discovered this detailed and thoughtful review of “The Visible Spectrum” at The Page of Reviews. It’s awesome and strange to hear a stranger’s thoughts on one of my stories. This is the first time any of my work has been properly reviewed, and I couldn’t have asked for a better deflowering. It’s largely positive, but with specific and fair criticisms.

Here’s an excerpt

Fascinating as I found The Visible Spectrum’s exploration of urban spaces predicated upon auditory and tactile queues, it didn’t ameliorate the fact that there is a good deal of world building and not a lot of narrative development within this story.  In fairness, the world that the story builds is amazing.  It’s refreshing, perhaps even revolutionary, to see a genre tale that doesn’t use technology, magic or some combination of the two to “fix” a person with the disability.  Impressive as that may be, it doesn’t change the fact that this story reads more like a very strong first chapter of a novel rather than a self contained story.  While the thin plot is by no means a deal breaker when set against such an ambitious and well crafted world, it is noticeable. [read the rest of this review]