November 2007

Catamaran
by Dana Copithorne

Dana Copithorne is author of The Steam Magnate (Aio Publishing, 2006), reviewed in the Broadsheet in February 2007. She is also a talented artist in watercolor and pen-and-pencil media who provided artwork for her own novel. Catamaran evokes the essence of her novel, a world thriving without fossil fuels.

Copithorne is also an award-winning nonfiction writer, well known in academic circles for her paper, published in the central European journal Kosmas, linking socio-political reality in the Czech Republic with Czech science fiction and literature. Her varied interests include cultural anthropology and studies, art, literature, architecture, urban design, and meditation. She has researched Shamanic religions in Siberia, Zen aesthetics, Japanese culture, and Japanese and Buddhist traditions in architecture. She has studied English language teaching in the Czech Republic and has taught English in rural Japan.

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