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Chimaera Publications
Chimaera Publications is a publisher based in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia. The company currently publishes the speculative fiction magazine ''Aurealis'' as well as running the Aurealis Awards. History Chimaera Publications begun publishing the ''Aurealis'' magazine in 1990. In 1995 Chimaera established the Aurealis Awards which is held yearly to reward the achievement in Australian speculative fiction. Chimaera also publishes books and in 2004 they published the multi-award-winning novel '' The Black Crusade'' by Richard Harland. ''The Black Crusade'' won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best horror novel and was named the 2004 Golden Aurealis novel. It was a short-list nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award for best novel. The artwork featured on the cover of ''The Black Crusade'' also won the 2005 Ditmar award for best artwork for Kerri Valkova. ''Aurealis'' magazine ''Aurealis'' was first released in April 1990 and was edited by Dirk Strasser and Stephen Higgins. It is curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe. Such fiction covers various themes in the context of supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative realms. The genres under this umbrella category include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (for example, science fantasy). History Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century. Characteristics of speculative fiction have been recognized in older works whose authors' intentions, or in the social contexts of the stories they portray, are now known. For example, the ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eidolon (Australian Magazine)
Eidolon Publications was a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia. The company previously published the speculative fiction magazine ''Eidolon'' which ran from 1990 to 2000 and published books under the name of Eidolon Books. History Eidolon Publications begun in 1990 and started publishing the ''Eidolon'' magazine. In 1992 the company expanded into non-magazine publishing, releasing Terry Dowling's "The Mars You Have in Me" as a chapbook. In 1996 Eidolon begun a book-line with Robin Pen's ''The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters''. They then signed with HarperCollins to edit ''The Year's best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy'' anthology series which began in 1997. In 2000 Eidolon put their magazine on hiatus but continued to accept submissions. In 2002 an editorial committee attempted to restart the magazine but it proved unsuccessful. The company published Terry Dowling's '' Blackwater Days'' which won the 2001 Ditmar Award for best collected work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Speculative Fiction Publishers
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Australian Children’s Book Council Awards
The Children's Book Council of Australia Awards was started by the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) in 1946 with one category. The awards have grown and now there are five categories in the ''Book of the Year Awards'' and numerous other awards presented annually by the National Office and CBCA branches in each State and Territory. The winner of the inaugural award received a flower, "a camellia". In more recent times the awards have been funded through Government grants (1966–1988), and lately by individual and corporation donations and sponsorships. The CBCA decided in 1995 to establish an Award Foundation to secure the funding for these awards for the future. Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards Five award categories are selected annually. They are: * CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers — for readers in their secondary years of schooling * CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers — for readers from the middle to upper primary yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantastic Queensland
The fantastic (french: le fantastique) is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, characterizing the fantastic as the hesitation of characters and readers when presented with questions about reality. Definitions The fantastic is present in works where the reader experiences hesitation about whether a work presents what Todorov calls "the uncanny", wherein superficially supernatural phenomena turn out to have a rational explanation (such as in the Gothic works of Ann Radcliffe) or "the marvelous", where the supernatural is confirmed by the story. Todorov breaks down the fantastic into a manner of systems, filled with conditions and properties that make it easier to understand. The fantastic requires the fulfillment of three conditions. First, the text must oblige the reader to consider the world of the characters as a world o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales From Outer Suburbia
Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Tales (album), ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller *Tales (film), ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film *Tales (TV series), ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series *Tales (video game), ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure game *Tales (video game series), ''Tales'' (video game series), a series of role-playing games *"Tales", or "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes", a song by Wolfmother from ''Wolfmother (album), Wolfmother'' *"Tales", a song by Schoolboy Q from ''Crash Talk'' Geography *Tales, Castellón, a municipality in Spain *Täles Railway (other), two railway lines in Baden-Württemberg in Germany People *Rémi Tales (born 1984), French rugby union player *Tales Schütz, Brazilian footballer See also *Tale (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated include '' The Red Tree'' and '' The Arrival''. Tan was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In 2006, his wordless graphic novel ''The Arrival'' won the Book of the Year prize as part of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The same book won the Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year award in 2007. and the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize in 2006. Tan's work has been described as an "Australian vernacular" that is "at once banal and uncanny, familiar and strange, local and universal, reassuring and scary, intimate and remote, guttersnipe and sprezzatura. No rhetoric, no straining for effect. Never other than itself." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Duncan (artist)
Adam Duncan may refer to: *Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731–1804), British admiral * Adam Duncan (sailor) (1833–?), sailor in the Union Navy in the American Civil War, recipient of the Medal of Honor * Adam Duncan (cricketer) (1852–1940), English lawyer and cricketer *Scott Duncan (footballer) Adam Scott Mathieson Duncan (2 November 1888 – 3 October 1976) was a Scottish football player and manager, who played as an outside right. He made over 100 appearances for Rangers, played in England for Newcastle United, winning the Footbal ... (1888–1975), Scottish footballer and manager * Adam M. Duncan (1927–2000), member of the Utah state legislature {{hndis, Duncan, Adam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Weavers (anthology)
''Dream Weavers'' is a 1996 fantasy anthology edited by Paul Collins. Background ''Dream Weavers'' was first published in September 1996 by Penguin Books in trade paperback format. It was a short-list nominee for the 1997 Ditmar Award for best long fiction but lost to Lucy Sussex' '' The Scarlet Rider''. ''Dream Weavers'' features 13 stories from 13 authors. One of the stories, " The Sword of God" by Russell Blackford won both the 1996 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 1997 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction. Another story "At the Edge of the Sea" by Keith Taylor was a short-list nominee for the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story but lost to Isobelle Carmody's "Green Monkey Dreams". Contents *Introduction by Paul Collins *"The Innkeeper", novelette by Tony Shillitoe *"The Scribe of a Hundred Lies", short story by Melinda Ross *"Lucky Jonglar", short story by Sean McMullen *"The Empty Quarter", short story by Jane Routley *"The W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Kyle
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (schooner), several ships * ''Elizabeth'' (freighter), an American freighter that was wrecked off New York harbor in 1850; see Places Australia * City of Elizabeth ** Elizabeth, South Australia * Elizabeth Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea United States * Elizabeth, Arkansas Elizabeth is an unincorporated community in western Fulton County, Arkansas, United States. Elizabeth is located along Arkansas Highway 87, southwest of Viola and about two miles east of the Big Creek arm of Norfork Lake. Elizabeth has a post of ... * Elizabeth, Colorado * Elizabeth, Georgia * Elizabeth, Illinois * Elizabeth, Indiana * Hopkinsville, Kentucky, originally known as Elizabeth * Elizabeth, Louisiana * Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts * Elizabeth, Minn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavan (born 23 October 1969) is an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies '' The Black Magician'' and '' Age of the Five''. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, ''The Traitor Spy'' trilogy, in August 2012 with '' The Traitor Queen''. Subsequently, Canavan has written a series called '' Millennium's Rule'', with a completely new setting consisting of multiple worlds which characters can cross between. Though originally planned as a trilogy, a fourth and final book in the ''Millennium's Rule'' series was published. Biography Canavan was born in Kew, in Melbourne, Australia and grew up in the suburb of Ferntree Gully. From early in her childhood she was creative and interested in art, writing and music. After deciding to become a professional artist she completed an Advanced Certificate in Promotional Display at the Melbourne College of Decoration, where she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Down-Under
''Dreaming Down-Under'' is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb. Background ''Dreaming Down-Under'' was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in trade paperback format. In 1999 and 2000 it was republished as two separate volumes. It was released in the United Kingdom by Swift Publishers in 2000 and in the United States by Tor Books in hardback and paperback formats in 2001 and 2002 respectively. ''Dreaming Down-Under'' won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for best anthology and the 1999 Ditmar Award for best Australian magazine or anthology. It was also a short-list nominee for the 1998 Aurealis Award's Peter McNamara Conveners' Award for Excellence and it finished 16th out of 20 in the Locus Award for best anthology. ''Dreaming Down-Under'' features 31 stories from 30 authors. The 1999 Ditmar Award for best Australian short fiction had six nominees all of which were taken from ''Dreaming Down-Under''. "The Marsh Runner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |