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Steven Paulsen
Steven Paulsen (born 1955) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction whose work has been published in books, magazines, journals and newspapers around the world. He is the author of the best selling children's book, ''The Stray Cat'', which has seen publication in several foreign language editions. His short story collection, ''Shadows on the Wall: Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Supernatural''), won the 2018 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies such as ''Dreaming Down-Under'', '' Terror Australis: Best Australian Horror'', ''Strange Fruit'', ''Fantastic Worlds'', ''The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror'', and ''Cthulhu Deep Down Under: Volume 3''. Paulsen has also written extensively about Australian speculative fiction in various publications including Bloodsongs, Eidolon (Australian magazine), Sirius, Interzone, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, Fantasy Annual, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Terror Australis
''Terror Australis: the Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine'' (1988–1992) was Australia's first mass market horror magazine. It succeeded the '' Australian Horror and Fantasy Magazine'' (1984–87) edited by Barry Radburn (who has gone on to publish novels as B. Michael Radburn) and Stephen Studach. AH&FM was the first semi-professional magazine of its kind in Australia to pay authors. After working on the production crew of AH&FM, when Radburn eventually suspended publication, Leigh Blackmore took over the subscription base and with co-editors Chris G.C. Sequeira and Bryce J. Stevens founded ''Terror Australis''. Kevin Dillon, a longtime Australian sf fan who had belonged to the Australian Futurians had the role of 'Special Consultant' for financial support and proofreading work on the magazine. "Australia has never produced a straight fantasy magazine, though in 1970 ''Sword and Sorcery'', a putative companion to Ronald E Graham's ''Vision of Tomorrow'', reached dummy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Dowling
Terence William (Terry) Dowling (born 21 March 1947), is an Australian writer and journalist. He writes primarily speculative fiction though he considers himself an "imagier" – one who imagines, a term which liberates his writing from the constraints of specific genres. He has been called "among the best-loved local writers and most-awarded in and out of Australia, a writer who stubbornly hews his own path (one mapped ahead, it is true, by Cordwainer Smith, J. G. Ballard and Jack Vance)." He has been Guest of Honour at several Australian science fiction conventions (including Syncon 87 and Swancon 15) and regularly tutors workshops on fantasy writing at venues including the New South Wales Writers' Centre, University of Sydney's Centre for Continuing Education, the Powerhouse Museum, the University of Canberra's Centre for Creative Writing, the Perth Writer's Festival and the University of Western Australia Perth International Arts Festiva (for example, "Marvellous Journeys: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Crew
Gary David Crew (born 23 September 1947) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. Awards Crew has won the Australian Children's Book of the Year on four occasions. Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers * 1991 '' Strange Objects'' * 1994 ''Angel's Gate'' Children's Book of the Year Award: Picture Book * 1994 ''First Light'' (Illustrator Peter Gouldthorpe) * 1995 '' The Watertower'' (Illustrator Stephen Woolman) Alan Marshall Prize for Children's Literature * 1991 '' Strange Objects'' New South Wales Premier's Award * 1991 '' Strange Objects'' Bibliography *''The Inner Circle'' (1986) *'' Strange Objects'' (1990) *''No Such Country'' (1991) *''The Last Cabinet'' for compilation of stories "The Blue Dress" (1991) *''Lucy's Bay'' (1992) (with Gregory Rogers) *''Tracks'' (1992) (with Gregory Rogers) *''The House of Tomorrow'' (1992) *''The Well'' (''After Dark'' series, 1992) (with Narelle Oliver) *''Angel's Gate'' (1994) *''Inventing Anthony West'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short stories, novels, literary criticism, a play, and an autobiography. Biography Early years Aiken was the eldest son of William Ford and Anna (Potter) Aiken. In Savannah, Aiken's father became a respected physician and eye surgeon, while his mother was the daughter of a prominent Massachusetts Unitarian minister. On February 27, 1901, Dr. Aiken murdered his wife and then committed suicide. According to his autobiography, ''Ushant'', Aiken, then 11 years old, heard the two gunshots and discovered the bodies immediately thereafter. After his parents' deaths, he was raised by his great-aunt and uncle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, attending Middlesex School, then Harvard University. At Harvard, Aiken edited the ''Advocate'' with T. S. Eliot, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grant (author)
Paul le Page Barnett (22 November 1949 – 3 February 2020), known by the pen name of John Grant, was a Scottish writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction. Biography Born Paul le Page Barnett in Aberdeen, Scotland, Grant has sometimes written under his own name (Paul Barnett), as Eve Devereux, and under various other pseudonyms; he has also ghostwritten a number of books. The author of some 70 books in all (excluding ghostwritten books), he has published several original novels as well as one novel in the Judge Dredd series and, with Joe Dever, 11 novels and a novella collection in the ''Legends of Lone Wolf (gamebooks), Lone Wolf'' series; edited several anthologies, beginning with ''Aries 1'' (1979) and most recently ''New Writings in the Fantastic'' (2007); and has written dozens of nonfiction works, including several relating to fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969. He has been described as "an integral part of science fiction's history"Davis, MattheJohn Clute: Yakfests of the Empyrean, ''Strange Horizons,'' 18 September 2006. and "perhaps the foremost reader-critic of sf in our time, and one of the best the genre has ever known." He was one of eight people who founded the English magazine '' Interzone'' in 1982 (the others included Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Roz Kaveney, and David Pringle). Clute's articles on speculative fiction have appeared in various publications since the 1960s. He is a co-editor of ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' (with Peter Nicholls) and of ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' (with John Grant), as well as the author of ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,'' all of which won Hugo Awards for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean McMullen
Sean Christopher McMullen (born 21 December 1948 in Sale, Victoria) is an Australian science fiction and fantasy author. Biography McMullen is one of Australia's leading science-fiction and fantasy authors and has written over 70 stories and 17 books. In 2011, his novelette "Eight Miles" was the runner-up in the Hugo Awards. He has won the Analog Reader's Award twice, for "Ninety Thousand Horses" in 2013 and "Tower of Wings" in 2002. His first novel was originally published in Australia as two separate books, '' Voices in the Light'' (1994) and '' Mirrorsun Rising'' (1995). His first internationally published novel was ''The Centurion's Empire'' (1998), which featured a time machine built during the Roman Empire. After this book's success, his first two novels were rewritten and combined for a publication in the US as ''Souls in the Great Machine'' (1999), which, in turn, became the first volume of the ''Greatwinter'' trilogy, a unique mix of the generally anti-genres steampunk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janeen Webb
Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at local schools. She then studied at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she gained a Ph.D. in literature in 1983. For many years, she taught at the Institute of Catholic Education (later part of the Australian Catholic University) in Melbourne, Victoria where she was Associate Professor and Reader in literature. From 1987 to 1991, Webb was a member of the editorial collective of ''Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series'', and is currently on the advisory board of ''Science Fiction Studies''. She is perhaps best known for her co-editorship, with her second husband, Jack Dann, of a major anthology of Australian science fiction and fantasy, ''Dreaming Down-Under ... [...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] |
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] |
Robert M
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
