Diamond Eyes
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Last published Sun, Sep 23, 2012
Mira Chambers is a young blind woman who has delusions of being able to see ghosts - but the secret about what she can *really* see creates a unique new concept in science fiction and fantasy...
This story WON Australia's most coveted science fiction and fantasy award in 2010: the Hemming Award for Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Themes about "otherness" in the human condition. (e.g. race, gender, sexuality etc)
It's now also available as a paperback by HarperCollins, so I can't post the whole story, but I did get permission to keep a post of a large chunk of it here...
You might also like to check this amateur vid of 2 book trailers, both of which were put together by my friends and went viral on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXBTXnVHns
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