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Welcome to the (reloaded) website of Alison Sinclair, author of SF novels Legacies (1995), Blueheart (1996), Cavalcade (1998), and Throne Price (co-authored, 2001), and fantasies Darkborn (2009), Lightborn (2010) and Shadowborn (forthcoming in 2011). Here you will find information about my novels and other writing, my irregularly-updated blog in its latest incarnation, and my lifestream of tweets, bookmarks, photographs, and what have you.
Darkborn, mass-market paperback, May 2010.
Lightborn, trade paperback, June 2010, mass-market paperback June 2011.
Shadowborn, trade paperback, June 2011.
Lightborn, trade paperback, June 2010, mass-market paperback June 2011.
Shadowborn, trade paperback, June 2011.
Latest from “Incidental Findings”
- Lessons learned along the way
In an exchange on a listserver I am on, the question of writing lessons learned along the way came up. This was my list . . . Published novels are the [More...]
- Drugs from the Sea: 1. Cone snails and ziconotide
Cross-posted from Kayak Yak . . . Drug discovery from marine sources is an active area of research, and several drugs of marine origin have already reached regular clinical use. [More...]
- Shading between curves in R
As a R learner programmer, it took me unconscionably long to work out how to use polygon to shade under and between curves, despite searches of the R manual and [More...]
- Bursting out in all directions (Among Others)
I probably don’t have to explain Jo Walton’s singular new novel, Among Others, by now. If I do, in brief, it is the journal and reading diary of a fifteen-year-old [More...]
- On the purpleness of starfish
Cross-posted from Kayak-Yak. Once upon a time in Brentwood Bay, while drifting over rocks studded with orange and purple starfish, and past huddles of starfish in crevasses at the waterline, it [More...]


