Casey Lucas

Guest writer

Casey Lucas is the winner of the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Short Story. Her short fiction has been published in venues such as Diabolical Plots and Year's Best Aotearoa Science Fiction and Fantasy. She edits Japanese manga for English publication and works in video game development, where her recent projects have been shortlisted for four New Zealand Games Awards.

A clinch between Hades and Persephone; the new book (Images: Supplied)

Lore Olympus: Behind the scenes of a phenomenally successful online comic

Here's a hell of a metric: this comic's been read 300 million times.

By Casey Lucas | 25th November, 2021

NONSO ANOZIE as TOMMY and CHRISTIAN CONVERY as GUS in SWEET TOOTH (Photo: KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX © 2021)

Review: Netflix’s Sweet Tooth is a slower, gentler sort of apocalypse thriller

The New Zealand-shot show about a child journeying through a post-pandemic world hits some familiar plot beats – but its sweetness is all its own.

By Casey Lucas | 12th June, 2021

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How NZ’s best fantasy and science fiction writers got shafted on a global stage

Those left gutted by the handling of this year's Sir Julius Vogel Awards are demanding better next year.

By Casey Lucas | 5th August, 2020

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The ‘promising young athlete’ cliche risks erasing the victim’s reality

What does it say about our sporting bodies that we’d even consider letting those who have admitted sexual assault compete under our banner?

By Casey Lucas | 14th August, 2019