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Nor Of Human
''Nor of Human: An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures'' is the first short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2001 under and edited by Geoffrey Maloney, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors. The anthology was one of the first projects the newly founded CSFG embarked on, as a way to provide a focus for members' activities and as a showcase for their work. The theme of "fantastic creatures" was inspired by a guest speaker at one of the Guild meetings, the Australian cryptozoologist known as "Tim the Yowie Man", and two of the anthology stories feature yowies (a creature roughly comparable to the American Bigfoot). The book was launched by SF writer Jack Dann. The book was shortlisted for four Aurealis Awards: "The Trojan Rocks", "Tales from the True Desert" and "Happy Birthday To Me" were listed for the science fiction, fantasy and horror categories respectively while Geoffrey Maloney was shortlist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication. Alternatively, it can also be a collection of selected writings (short stories, poems etc.) by one author. Complete collections of works are often called "complete works" or "" (Latin equivalent). Etymology The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία (''anthologic'', literally "a collection of blossoms", from , ''ánthos'', flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the ''Garland'' (, ''stéphanos''), the introduction to which compares each of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story. Along with Maxine McArthur and others, he helped set up the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild in 1999. This produced the anthology '' Nor of Human... An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures'' with Maloney as the editor. In 2001 he won the 2000 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story for " The World According to Kipling (A Plain Tale from the Hills)". Maloney has since received four other nominations at the Aurealis Awards and two at the Ditmar Awards. He currently lives in Brisbane with his wife and three children. Bibliography Anthologies *'' Nor of Human... An Anthology of Fantastic Creatures'' (2001) (as editor, part of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild Anthologies) *''Fantastical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptozoology
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe. Cryptozoologists refer to these entities as ''cryptids'', a term coined by the subculture. Because it does not follow the scientific method, cryptozoology is considered a pseudoscience by mainstream science: it is neither a branch of zoology nor of folklore studies. It was originally founded in the 1950s by zoologists Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson. Scholars have noted that the subculture rejected mainstream approaches from an early date, and that adherents often express hostility to mainstream science. Scholars have studied cryptozoologists and their influence (including the pseudoscience's association with Young Earth creationism), noted parallels in crypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yowie (cryptid)
Yowie is one of several names for an Australian folklore entity that is reputed to live in the Outback. The creature has its roots in Aboriginal oral history. In parts of Queensland, they are known as ''quinkin'' (or as a type of quinkin), and as ''joogabinna'', in parts of New South Wales they are called ''Ghindaring'', ''jurrawarra'', ''myngawin'', ''puttikan'', ''doolaga'', ''gulaga'' and ''thoolagal''. Other names include ''yaroma'', ''noocoonah'', ''wawee'', ''pangkarlangu'', ''jimbra'' and ''tjangara''. Yowie-type creatures are common in Aboriginal Australian legends, particularly in the eastern Australian states. Description The yowie is usually described as a hairy and ape-like creature standing upright at between and . The yowie's feet are described as much larger than a human's, but alleged yowie tracks are inconsistent in shape and toe number, and the descriptions of yowie foot and footprints provided by yowie witnesses are even more varied than those of Bigfoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays and poetry and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. Life and career Earlier life Jack Dann was born to a Jewish family in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York. His father was an attorney and a Judge. Dann describes himself as having been "a troublesome child in a very small town" and in his teens associated with a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award. History The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by '' Chimaera Publications'', the publishers of ''Aurealis Magazine''. Unlike the other major Australian speculative fiction award, the Ditmar Award, it divides work into subgenre and age categories, and is judged as such. The award was originally given out in the following divisions: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult. Two separate awards are given in each of those divisions, one for novels and one for short stories. A fifth division for Children's books was added in 2001 for fiction for 8-12 year olds, with separate awards for "Short Fiction" and "Long Fiction". With the 2008 Awards the "Short Fiction" children's fiction category became a category for "Illustrated Work/Picture Book". For the 2010 Awards, the two categories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsewhere (anthology)
''Elsewhere: An Anthology of Incredible Places'' is the third short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2003 and edited by Michael Barry, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors. Background ''Elsewhere'' was first published in Australia in October 2003 by CSFG Publishing. It was a short-list nominee for the 2004 Ditmar Award for best collected work but lost to ''Agog! Terrific Tales'', edited by Cat Sparks. ''Elsewhere'' features 26 stories by 26 authors, with two of the stories featured receiving nominations. " Alien Space Nazis Must Die" by Chuck McKenzie was a finalist for the 2004 Ditmar Award for best novella or novelette but lost to "La Sentinelle" by Lucy Sussex and " State of Oblivion" by Kaaron Warren was a short-list nominee for the 2004 Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story but lost to Brendan Duffy's " Louder Echo". Contents *Interior artwork by Les Petersen *Introduction by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encounters (anthology)
''Encounters'' is the fourth short story anthology published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Printed in 2004 and edited by Maxine McArthur and Donna Maree Hanson, it contains stories from several Australian speculative fiction authors. Stories The collection contains the following stories: *"Vortle" by Lee Battersby *"Davey's Gift" by Kate Eltham *"The Souvenir" by Richard Harland *"Don't Got No Wings" by Trent Jamieson *"Garden Light" by Shane M. Brown *"The Flatmate From Hell" by Dirk Flinthart *"The Ceremony of Innocence" by Conor Bendle *"Crazy Little Thing" by Stuart Barrow *"Una, the One" by Frankie Seymour *"The Faithless Priest and the Nameless King" by Cory Daniells *"Stella's Transformation" by Kim Westwood *"Boys" by Ben Payne *"Sleeping With Monsters" by Michael Barry *"Remembering Bliss" by Carol Ryles *"Guarding the Mound" by Kaaron Warren *"The Final Battle" by Scott Robinson *"Meltdown my Plutonium Heart" by Cat Sparks *"Beggars on the Shore" b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Anthology Of Ingenious Designs
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian anime convention * Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN) * Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002 ** AN Railway, a successor company, 2002– * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization * Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987 * Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix Entertainment and media * Antv, an Indonesian television network * ''Astronomische Nachrichten'', or ''Astronomical Notes'', an international astronomy journal * ''Avisa Nordland'', a Norwegian newspaper * '' Sweet Bean'' (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grinding House
''The Grinding House'' is a collection of short stories by Kaaron Warren published in 2005 by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. The collection was edited by Donna Maree Hanson. Warren won the 2006 Fiction ACT Writers and Publishers Award for ''The Grinding House''.See The Chronicle, 12 December 2006 Stories The collection contains the following stories: * "Fresh Young Widow" * "The Glass Woman" * "The Blue Stream" * "The Hanging People" * "Smoko" * "A-Positive" * "The Missing Children" * "Al's Iso Bar" * "The Left Behind" * "Tiger Kill" * "The Wrong Seat" * "Skin Holes" * "The Sameness of Birthdays" * "The Speaker of Heaven" * "The Smell of Mice" * "The Grinding House" * "Survival of the Last" * "Salamander" * "Working for the God of the Love of Money" The cover art is by Robyn Evans. * See also * ''Nor of human'' * ''Machinations: An Anthology of Ingenious Designs'' * ''Elsewhere (Anthology), Elsewhere'' * ''Encounters (anthology), Encounters'' * ''The Outcast ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
