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Amy's Stars
Alex Isle is an Australian author. He writes both novels and short stories in the science fiction/fantasy genre, as well as books and articles of nonfiction, for both adult and young adult (YA) audiences. In 2014 Isle changed his name from Susan to Alex to reflect a gender identity change and adopted the male pronouns. Publications before 2014 are under the name Sue Isle. Isle's books include the 1996 YA novel ''Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf'', about a rebellious teen in an alternate-world 16th century joining a group of sorceresses, and nonfiction children's book ''Wolf Children : the real feral kids : an extraordinary story'' (1998), as well as a collection of post-apocalyptic stories set in Perth, "Nightsiders", published in 2011. Isle has sold numerous stories to publications such as ''Aurealis'', ''Orb'', ''ASIM'', ''Agog'', ''Sword and Sorceress'', ''Tales of the Unanticipated'' SAand Shiny, a YA fiction magazine. Isle's other interests include history, science fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo. Prior to British settlement, the indigenous Noongar people inhabited the area for millennia, and knew it by the name of Walyalup ("place of the woylie")."(26/3/2018) Inaugural Woylie Festival starts tomorrow" fremantle.gov.au. Retrieved 5 July 2020. Visited by in the 1600s, Fremantle was the first area settled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of The Unanticipated
''Tales of the Unanticipated'', known as ''TOTU'', is a semiprozine that was founded under the auspices of the Minnesota Science Fiction Society (known as Mn-STF or Minn-STF), and has since become independent. Like contemporaries such as ''Crank! '' and ''Century'', ''Tales of the Unanticipated'' strove from its inception to showcase fiction, poetry and articles that are ostensibly speculative fiction. History The first issue of ''Tales of the Unanticipated'' was launched in August 1986. Over the years, notable authors who contributed fiction, articles and/or poetry have included Kate Wilhelm, Eleanor Arnason, Damon Knight, Bruce Bethke, John Sladek, Stephen Dedman, and Neil Gaiman. Writers who had their first published short stories premiere in ''TOTU'' include Peg Kerr, Jason Sanford, Kij Johnson, Carolyn Ives Gilman, and others who had important early appearances of their work in the magazine include Lyda Morehouse. The short story "Koan" was eventually made into the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Use Only As Directed
''Use Only As Directed'' is a speculative fiction short story anthology edited by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey, and published by Peggy Bright Books in 2014. The book features fourteen short stories by Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction writers. The anthology's opening story, 'Dellinger' by Charlotte Nash, was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story. Contents * "Introduction" by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey * "Dellinger" by Charlotte Nash * "The Blue Djinn's Wish" by Leife Shallcross * "The Kind Neighbours of Hell" by Alex Isle * "Mister Lucky" by Ian Nichols * "Home Sick" by M. Darusha Wehm * "Always Falling Up" by Grant Stone * "Yard" by Claire McKenna * "Never More" by Dave Freer * "Fetch Me Down My Gun" by Lyn McConchie * "Uncle Darwin's Bazooka" by Douglas A. Van Belle * "The Climbing Tree" by Michelle Goldsmith * "Large Friendly Letters" by Stephen Dedman * "Future Perfect" by Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alisa Krasnostein
Alisa is a female given name, a version of Alice in used in Russia, Finland, Estonia and other countries. Notable people with the names Alisa and Alissa include: Alisa People *Alisa Agafonova (born 1991), Ukrainian former competitive ice dancer *Alisa Ahmann (born 1994), German fashion model *Alisa Bellettini (1954-2016), American television producer *Alisa Bokulich, American philosopher of science * Alisa Buchinger (born 1992), Austrian karateka *Alisa Burras (born 1975), American former professional basketball player * Alisa Camplin (born 1974), Australian aerial skier *Alisa Childers (born 1975), American singer and songwriter *Alisa Chumachenko, Lithuanian entrepreneur *Alisa Craig (1922-2005), American novelist Charlotte MacLeod’s pen name * Alisa Drei (born 1978), Finnish former competitive figure skater *Alisa Durbrow (born 1988), Japanese model, actress, and singer *Alisa Efimova (born 1999), Finnish-Russian pair skater *Alisa Fedichkina (born 2002), Russian competitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiny (magazine)
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Borderlands (magazine)
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Agog! Ripping Reads
Agog! Press was an independent Australian book publisher, specializing in speculative fiction short story collections. Founded in 2002 by Cat Sparks, the press published nine anthologies of speculative fiction. In 2006 Agog! Press forged a collaboration with United States publisher Prime Books, which has led to international (US) distribution of Agog! titles in both hard and soft cover. Titles *''Agog! Ripping Reads'' (2006), ed. Cat Sparks, *''Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales'' (2005), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Daikaiju!2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters'' (2007), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Daikaiju!3: Giant Monsters vs the World'' (2007), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Agog! Smashing Stories'' (2004), ed. Cat Sparks, *''Agog! Terrific Tales'' (2003), ed. Cat Sparks, *''Agog! Fantastic Fiction'' (2002), ed. Cat Sparks, *''AustrAlien Absurdities'' (2002), ed. Chuck McKenzie and Tansy Rayner Roberts *''Scary Food: A Compendium of Gastronomic Atrocity'' (2008) ed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Australian Tales Of The Supernatural
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Cat Sparks
Catriona (Cat) Sparks (born 11 September 1965, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian science fiction writer, editor and publisher. Publishing As manager and editor of Agog! Press with her partner, Australian horror writer Rob Hood, Sparks has produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction. Writing She has won thirteen Ditmar Awards for writing, editing and artwork, her most recent in 2014, when her short story ''Scarp'' was awarded a Ditmar for Best Short Story and 'The Bride Price' one for Best Collected Work. She was nominated for the Aurealis Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence in 2003 and won one in 2004 for services to the Australian SF publishing industry. In 2006 Sparks was convenor of the Horror judging panel of the Aurealis Awards, and in 2008 she was Guest of Honour at the Conflux 5 Science Fiction Convention in Canberra. Sparks has concentrated on her writing in recent years. In 2004 Sparks graduated the inaugural Clarion South Writers' Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agog! Terrific Tales
Agog! Press was an independent Australian book publisher, specializing in speculative fiction short story collections. Founded in 2002 by Cat Sparks, the press published nine anthologies of speculative fiction. In 2006 Agog! Press forged a collaboration with United States publisher Prime Books, which has led to international (US) distribution of Agog! titles in both hard and soft cover. Titles *''Agog! Ripping Reads'' (2006), ed. Cat Sparks, *'' Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales'' (2005), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Daikaiju!2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters'' (2007), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Daikaiju!3: Giant Monsters vs the World'' (2007), ed. Rob Hood and Robin Pen, *''Agog! Smashing Stories'' (2004), ed. Cat Sparks, *''Agog! Terrific Tales'' (2003), ed. Cat Sparks, *''Agog! Fantastic Fiction'' (2002), ed. Cat Sparks, *''AustrAlien Absurdities'' (2002), ed. Chuck McKenzie and Tansy Rayner Roberts *''Scary Food: A Compendium of Gastronomic Atrocity'' (2008) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' or ''ASIM'' is a fantasy and science fiction magazine published out of Canberra, ACT, Australia. The publishers of ''ASIM'' describe it as "Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine". The magazine is currently edited by Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Incorporated and is published quarterly. Although originally sold only in Australia, subscriptions for ''ASIM'' are now available worldwide through Amazon.com and other online vendors. History The first issue of ''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine'' was released in June 2002 as a slightly larger than digest size print magazine. Although the publishers of ''ASIM'' continued to offer it as a print magazine, in April 2006 they began releasing an electronic PDF version of the magazine beginning with issue #22. In June 2007 ''ASIM'' released a series of "best of" anthologies in the PDF format. There are a total of three anthologies in the series; one for science fiction, one for fantasy and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Of Endor
"The Woman of Endor" is a 2001 fantasy novelette by Sue Isle. Background "The Woman of Endor" was first published in 2001 in the second edition of the ''Orb Speculative Fiction'' magazine, edited by Sarah Endacott and published by Orb Publications. It was published alongside 12 other stories by the authors Kaaron Warren, Reilly McCarron, Aidan Doyle, Tracey Rolfe, Claire McKenna, Adam Browne, Helen Patrice, Stephen Dedman, Paul Haines, Geoffrey Maloney Geoffrey Maloney is an Australian writer of speculative short fiction. Biography Maloney's first story, "5 Cigarettes and 2 Snakes", was published in 1990 in ''Aurealis'' No. 1. In 1997 Maloney's "The Embargo Traders" was nominated for Aureal ..., Andrew Tompkins, and Carolyn Scott. "The Woman of Endor" won the 2001 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. References External links Orb Speculative Fiction magazine 2001 short stories Australian short stories Fantasy short stories Works originally published in Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
