Australian sf and science writer Damien Broderick is appearing as guest writer on an open forum over at ASif! - Australian Specfic in Focus. Damien is curently the fiction editor for COSMOS magazine and is probably best known for The Dreaming Dragons, which was runner-up for the 1981 John W. Campbell Award, and for The Spike, his exploration of the technological singularity expected within the next 25 to 30 years.
[Thanks to Chris Lawson over on the Talking Squid weblog for the link.]