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Agog! Smashing Stories
''Agog! Smashing Stories'' is a 2004 Australian speculative fiction anthology edited by Cat Sparks. Background ''Agog! Smashing Stories'' was first published in Australia in 2004 by Agog! Press in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for best collected work at the 2005 Ditmar Awards but lost to ''Black Juice'' by Margo Lanagan. ''Agog! Smashing Stories'' features 20 stories by 20 authors. Two of the stories featured in the anthology won an Aurealis Award. Brendan Duffy's, " Come to Daddy" won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and Louise Katz' " Weavers of the Twilight" won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. Four other stories were also short-list nominees and the Ditmar Awards and the Aurealis Awards – " The Border" by Richard Harland was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for best horror short story, Simon Brown's, " Water Babies" was a nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award for best novella or novelette, and Ben Peek' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Weavers Of The Twilight
"Weavers of Twilight" is a 2004 fantasy short story by Louise Katz. Background "Weavers of Twilight" was first published in 2004 in ''Agog! Smashing Stories'', edited by Cat Sparks and published by Agog! Press. It was published alongside 19 other stories by the authors Robert Hood, Paul Haines, Claire McKenna, Jeremy Shaw, Deborah Biancotti, Dirk Flinthart, Sean McMullen, Bryn Sparks, Justine Larbalestier, Kim Westwood, Martin Livings, Grace Dugan, Ben Peek, Marianne de Pierres, Richard Harland, Simon Brown, Trent Jamieson, Brendan Duffy and Iain Triffitt. "Weavers of Twilight" joint-won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story along with Richard Harland's "Catabolic Magic "Catabolic Magic" is a 2004 fantasy short story by English writer Richard Harland. Background "Catabolic Magic" was first published in April 2004 in ''Aurealis'' #32, edited by Keith Stevenson and published by Chimaera Publications. It was publ ...". Synopsis References 2004 short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hood
Robert Maxwell Hood (born 24 July 1951) is an Australian writer and editor recognised as one of Australia's leading horror writers, although his work frequently crosses genre boundaries into science fiction, fantasy and crime. He has published five young adult novels, four collections of his short fiction, an adult epic fantasy novel, fifteen children's books and over 120 short stories in anthologies and magazines in Australia and overseas. He has also written plays, academic articles and poetry and co-edited anthologies of horror and crime. He has won seven Ditmars out of twenty nominations, and been nominated for six Aurealis Awards. Biography Hood was born in 1951 in Parramatta, New South Wales. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Collaroy Plateau on the northern beaches of Sydney.Blackmore, Leigh. "Profile of Robert Hood", ''Mantichore 14'', pg. 9 (2 August 2009); accessed 26 May 2017. His initial experiments in writing began in primary school, where he produce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Black Crusade
''The Black Crusade'' is a 2004 horror novel by Richard Harland. It is a prequel to Harland's earlier novel '' The Vicar of Morbing Vyle''. It describes the journey of the hapless Basil Smorta, a multilingual bank clerk, who is forced into the company of a group of "fundamental Darwinists" by their imprisonment of the object of his undying love, Australian singer, Volusia, in a mobile iron box. The group travel across Eastern Europe during 1894, and encounter ghosts, blood donating vampires and other comic horror curiosities.(2005-03-01). "Doctor's fantasy a winner". '' Illawarra Mercury''. IQ Section. Page 37. Background ''The Black Crusade'' was first published in Australia in January 2004 by Chimaera Publications in trade paperback Trade paperback may refer to: * Trade paperback, a higher-quality softcover version of a book * Trade paperback (comics) In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerri Valkova
Kerry or Kerri may refer to: * Kerry (name), a given name and surname of Gaelic origin (including a list of people with the name) Places * Kerry, Queensland, Australia * County Kerry, Ireland ** Kerry Airport, an international airport in County Kerry, Ireland * Kerry, Powys, Wales, UK * Kerry quarter, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US * Kerry Park, Seattle, Washington, US Brands and enterprises * Kerry Group, a food company in Ireland * Kerry Media, a newspaper and publications group * Kerry Properties, a property developer in Hong Kong Constituencies *Kerry (Dáil constituency) *Kerry (Parliament of Ireland constituency) *Kerry (UK Parliament constituency) Other uses * Earl of Kerry, an ancient title in the Peerage of Ireland * Kerry GAA, a governing body of Gaelic games in County Kerry * Kerry F.C. (other), two unrelated football teams * Kerry, a front end for Beagle desktop search software See also * Ceri (other) * Kelley (other) * Kelly (disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number 3 Raw Place
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label. The original examples are the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Numbers can be represented in language with number words. More universally, individual numbers can be represented by symbols, called ''numerals''; for example, "5" is a numeral that represents the number five. As only a relatively small number of symbols can be memorized, basic numerals are commonly organized in a numeral system, which is an organized way to represent any number. The most common numeral system is the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, which allows for the representation of any number using a combination of ten fundamental numeric symbols, called digits. In addition to their use in counting and measuring, numerals are often used for labels (as with telephone numbers), for ordering (as with serial numbers), and for codes (as with ISBNs). In common usage, a ''numeral'' is not clearly distinguished from the ''number'' tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Biancotti was born in 1971 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Her first work was published in 2000 with her short story "The First and Final Game" which was featured in ''Altair (magazine), Altair'' and won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best horror short story. In 2001 she won the Ditmar Award for best new talent. Biancotti's fifth short story, "King of All and the Metal Sentinel" was published in 2002 and won the 2003 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. In 2007 her story "A Scar for Leida" won the Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story. Biancotti is now based in Sydney. Awards and nominations Bibliography Short fiction *"The First and Final Game" (2000) in ''Altair (magazine), Altair #6/7 (ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Jim Deed, Andrew Collings) *"All the Monochrome Butterflies" (2001) in ''Mitch?2: Tarts of the New Millennium'' *"Fixing the Glitch" (2001) in ''Mitch?3: Hacks to the Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
R (short Story)
R, or r, is the eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ar'' (pronounced ), plural ''ars'', or in Ireland ''or'' . The letter is the eighth most common letter in English and the fourth-most common consonant (after , , and ). The letter is used to form the ending "-re", which is used in certain words such as ''centre'' in some varieties of English spelling, such as British English. Canadian English also uses the "-re" ending, unlike American English, where the ending is usually replaced by "-er" (''center''). This does not affect pronunciation. Name The name of the letter in Latin was (), following the pattern of other letters representing continuants, such as F, L, M, N and S. This name is preserved in French and many other languages. In Middle English, the name of the letter changed from to , following a pattern exhibited in many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Peek
Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael. Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Fantasy Magazine'' and ''Aurealis''. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called ''The Urban Sprawl Project'', a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal. In 2006 his autobiography, ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth'', was published by Wheatland Press with artwork from Andrew Macrae and Anna Brown. In 2007, ''Black Sheep, a dystopian novel'', was published by Prime Books. In 2007, Peek also began collaborating with artist Anna Brown on ''Nowhere Near Savannah'', an online comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth''. Peek has claimed that every incident described in ''Nowhere near Savannah'' is true. Peek holds a Bachelor of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Water Babies (novelette)
The Water Babies, Water Babies, or Water Baby may refer to: * ''The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby'', a novel by Charles Kingsley published in 1863 * ''The Water Babies'' (film), a 1978 live action/animated film based on the novel * ''Water Babies'' (1935 film), a 1935 animated short film in the ''Silly Symphonies'' series * ''The Water Babies'', a 2003 musical based on the novel by Jason Carr and Gary Yershon, directed by Jeremy Sams * ''Water Babies'' (album), a 1976 album by Miles Davis * The Water Babies, a UK band who released the 2005 single " Under the Tree" * "Water Baby" (song), a song by English musician Tom Misch *Water birth, a childbirth that occurs in water * Water baby syndrome, an older, alternative name for hydrocephalus *Mizuko kuyō, the stillborn, aborted, and miscarried in Japan See also * "Water Baby Blues "Water Baby Blues"/"Water Baby Boogie" is a Western swing instrumental first recorded in 1946 by Merl Lindsay (4 Star 1117) and whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Brown (author)
Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian science fiction writer. He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in ''Cannibals in the Fine Light'' (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, ''Troy'', was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited ''Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal'' in 1989. He was also an editor of ''Argos'', the journal of the Canberra Skeptics. He won the 2009 short story division of the ''Aurealis Award'' for his story "The Empire" Brown, Charles N. < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
