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Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford (born 1954) is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic. Early life and education Blackford was born in Sydney, and grew up in the city of Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, New South Wales. After graduating with first-class honours degrees in both arts and law from the University of Newcastle and University of Melbourne respectively, Blackford was awarded a PhD in English literature, also from Newcastle, on the return to myth in modern fictional narrative (as postulated by Northrop Frye). He completed a Master of Bioethics at Monash University and was awarded a second PhD, in philosophy (also from Monash), for a thesis entitled "The philosophy of human enhancement". His supervisor was Justin Oakley. Career As a fiction writer, Blackford specialises in science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. His work includes four novels published by iBooks, three of them forming an original trilogy (The New John Connor Chronicles) set in the world of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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2010 Global Atheist Convention
Atheism, agnosticism, scepticism, freethought, secular humanism or general irreligion are increasing in Australia. Post-war Australia has become a highly secularised country. Religion does not play a major role in the lives of much of the population. In the country's 2021 census, 38.9% of Australians (or 9,886,957 people) selected either "no religion" or specified their form of irreligion, almost nine percent higher (and 2,846,240 more people) than the . 7.2% did not state their religion, or gave an unclear response, meaning that over 46% of Australians did not state a religious affiliation in the 2021 census, a 6.4% increase from the last census. When asked of their religious affiliation in the 2016 census, 29.6% of Australians (or 6,933,708 people) selected "no religion." This is more than seven percent higher (and 2,240,546 more people), than in the . Additionally in 2016, another 0.5% instead opted to specify their form of irreligion, writing it in under "other," hence ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Paul Collins (fantasy Writer)
Paul Collins (born 21 May 1954) is an Australian writer and editor who specializes in science fiction and fantasy. Collins has written many books for younger readers. He is best known for his fantasy series, The Jelindel Chronicles' (''Dragonlinks'', ''Dragonfang,'' ''Dragonsight'' and ''Wardragon''), and ' (''Swords of Quentaris'', ''Slaves of Quentaris'', ''Dragonlords of Quentaris'', Vampires of Quentaris, ''Princess of Shadows'', ''The Forgotten Prince'' and ''The Spell of Undoing''), and his science fiction series, The Maximus Black Files(Mole Hunt, Dyson's Drop'' and ''The Only Game in the Galaxy)''. Paul's latest fantasy books, written in collaboration with Sean McMullen, are six titles in ''The Warlock's Child'' series: ''The Burning Sea, Dragonfall Mountain, The Iron Claw, Trial by Dragons, Voyage to Morticas'' and ''The Guardians'.'' In addition to his novels, Collins has written over a hundred chapter books, around thirty non-fiction hardcovers for the education mar ... [...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] |
The Sword Of God (novelette)
"The Sword of God" is a 1996 fantasy novelette by Australian writer Russell Blackford. Background "The Sword of God" was first published in Australia in 1996 in Paul Collins' '' Dream Weavers'' by Penguin Books. It was published alongside 12 other stories by the authors Tony Shillitoe, Melinda Ross, Sean McMullen, Jane Routley, Cadmus Evans, Shannah Jay, Howard Goldsmith, Paul Collins, Isobelle Carmody, Beverley MacDonald, Ian Hayward Robinson and Keith Taylor. In 1997 it was republished in ''The Years' Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy 1996'' edited by Jonathan Strahan, Jeremy G. Byrne. In 2003 Wakefield Press and Aphelion Publications published it in ''Forever Shores'', edited by Margaret Winch, Peter McNamara, and in 2004 it was released again in ''The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection'', edited by Rob Gerrand and published by Black Inc. "The Sword of God" won the 1996 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and the 1997 Ditmar Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerly (Australian Literary Magazine)
''Westerly'' is a literary magazine that has been produced at the University of Western Australia since 1956. It currently publishes two issues a year, and in 2016 released its first online special issues. The journal maintains a specific focus on the Australian and Asian regions, but has published literary and cultural content from international authors. The magazine publishes fiction, poetry, cultural, autobiographic, and scholarly essays, and interviews. History In 2015, ''Westerly'' ran a campaign called 'Word Matters', a response in publication to the funding cuts seen in the arts in federal and state budgets. The campaign published poetry from two young emerging poets, and sought reader engagement in the tweeting of responses online (#westerlywordmatters). Around that time, ''Westerly'' developed a more extensive online presence with a new website and social media engagement. The magazine, with the redesign of their website, broadened their publications to include sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Kapell
Matthew Wilhelm Kapell is a historian and anthropologist, with master's degrees in each discipline, who has a Ph.D. in American Studies. Early in his career he co-authored chapters on the genetics of human growth and the effects of poverty on growth. The majority of this work appeared while he taught anthropology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. Included among these are essays published mainly in edited European and Indian (Asia) works attacking ideas of genetic factors in determining development of height and body shape. Other publications include works on the computer game Civilization (video game), Civilization, The Holocaust, Holocaustal images in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the American speculative fiction and socialist writer Mack Reynolds re-working of the Utopian fiction of Edward Bellamy, and Christian Romance fiction. Kapell has also published a number of essays in the journal Extrapolation, and elsewhere, on speculative fiction in the United States as intellectu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford (born 1954) is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic. Early life and education Blackford was born in Sydney, and grew up in the city of Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, New South Wales. After graduating with first-class honours degrees in both arts and law from the University of Newcastle and University of Melbourne respectively, Blackford was awarded a PhD in English literature, also from Newcastle, on the return to myth in modern fictional narrative (as postulated by Northrop Frye). He completed a Master of Bioethics at Monash University and was awarded a second PhD, in philosophy (also from Monash), for a thesis entitled "The philosophy of human enhancement". His supervisor was Justin Oakley. Career As a fiction writer, Blackford specialises in science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. His work includes four novels published by iBooks, three of them forming an original trilogy (The New John Connor Chronicles) set in the world of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
43rd World Science Fiction Convention
The 43rd World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as Aussiecon Two, was held on 22–26 August 1985 at the Southern Cross, Victoria, and Sheraton Hotels in Melbourne, Australia. The convention was chaired by David Grigg. Participants Attendance was 1,599. Guests of Honour * Gene Wolfe (pro) * Ted White (fan) Awards 1985 Hugo Awards * Best Novel: ''Neuromancer'' by William Gibson * Best Novella: ''PRESS ENTER■'' by John Varley * Best Novelette: " Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler * Best Short Story: "The Crystal Spheres" by David Brin * Best Non-Fiction Book: '' Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction'' by Jack Williamson * Best Dramatic Presentation: ''2010'' * Best Professional Editor: Terry Carr * Best Professional Artist: Michael Whelan * Best Semiprozine: ''Locus'', edited by Charles N. Brown * Best Fanzine: ''File 770'', edited by Mike Glyer * Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford * Best Fan Artist: Alexis Gilliland Other awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
