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Use Only As Directed
''Use Only As Directed'' is a speculative fiction short story anthology edited by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey, and published by Peggy Bright Books in 2014. The book features fourteen short stories by Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction writers. The anthology's opening story, 'Dellinger' by Charlotte Nash, was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story. Contents * "Introduction" by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey * "Dellinger" by Charlotte Nash * "The Blue Djinn's Wish" by Leife Shallcross * "The Kind Neighbours of Hell" by Alex Isle * "Mister Lucky" by Ian Nichols * "Home Sick" by M. Darusha Wehm * "Always Falling Up" by Grant Stone * "Yard" by Claire McKenna * "Never More" by Dave Freer * "Fetch Me Down My Gun" by Lyn McConchie * "Uncle Darwin's Bazooka" by Douglas A. Van Belle * "The Climbing Tree" by Michelle Goldsmith * "Large Friendly Letters" by Stephen Dedman * "Future Perfect" by Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Use Only As Directed
''Use Only As Directed'' is a speculative fiction short story anthology edited by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey, and published by Peggy Bright Books in 2014. The book features fourteen short stories by Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction writers. The anthology's opening story, 'Dellinger' by Charlotte Nash, was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story. Contents * "Introduction" by Simon Petrie and Edwina Harvey * "Dellinger" by Charlotte Nash * "The Blue Djinn's Wish" by Leife Shallcross * "The Kind Neighbours of Hell" by Alex Isle * "Mister Lucky" by Ian Nichols * "Home Sick" by M. Darusha Wehm * "Always Falling Up" by Grant Stone * "Yard" by Claire McKenna * "Never More" by Dave Freer * "Fetch Me Down My Gun" by Lyn McConchie * "Uncle Darwin's Bazooka" by Douglas A. Van Belle * "The Climbing Tree" by Michelle Goldsmith * "Large Friendly Letters" by Stephen Dedman * "Future Perfect" by Janeen Webb Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton ... [...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] |
Short Story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest types of literature and has existed in the form of legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story developed in the early 19th century. Definition The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella/short novel, authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques. The short story is sometimes referred to as a genre. Determining what exactly defines a short story has been recurrently problematic. A classic definition of a short story ... [...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] |
Simon Petrie
Simon Petrie is a New Zealand-born speculative fiction writer now based in Canberra, Australia. He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Petrie's stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil's Garage. He is a former member of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine collective and has edited five issues of the magazine. Petrie's work has seen several nominations for Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction awards and he has won the Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand SF Award) three times: in 2010 for Best New Talent, and in 2013 and 2018 for Best Novella or Novelette. He is best known for two series of stories: his 'Gordon Mamon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2014. Events *January – Parts of two previously unknown poems by the female Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient papyrus. This is reported by several news sources by the end of the month. *January 18 – The first books are transferred from the old to the new National Library of Latvia in Riga. *March 6 – Joseph Boyden's novel '' The Orenda'' wins the 2014 edition of ''Canada Reads''. *April 24 – Writers including Mark Haddon and Mary Beard join a campaign against a ban on sending books to U.K. prison inmates. *May 22 – J. R. R. Tolkien's 1926 translation of ''Beowulf'' is first published. (His essay "On Translating Beowulf" had appeared in 1940). *June 10 – As part of a Northern Iraq offensive, ISIL and aligned Salafi jihadist forces take Mosul, leading to extensive book burning at its libraries, as part of the destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL. *November 25 – Discovery o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Isle
Alex Isle is an Australian author. He writes both novels and short stories in the science fiction/fantasy genre, as well as books and articles of nonfiction, for both adult and young adult (YA) audiences. In 2014 Isle changed his name from Susan to Alex to reflect a gender identity change and adopted the male pronouns. Publications before 2014 are under the name Sue Isle. Isle's books include the 1996 YA novel ''Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf'', about a rebellious teen in an alternate-world 16th century joining a group of sorceresses, and nonfiction children's book ''Wolf Children : the real feral kids : an extraordinary story'' (1998), as well as a collection of post-apocalyptic stories set in Perth, "Nightsiders", published in 2011. Isle has sold numerous stories to publications such as ''Aurealis'', ''Orb'', ''ASIM'', ''Agog'', ''Sword and Sorceress'', ''Tales of the Unanticipated'' SAand Shiny, a YA fiction magazine. Isle's other interests include history, science fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Freer
Dave Freer is a South African–born, Australian-based science fiction author writing mostly humorous or alternate history novels. Biography Freer was born and educated in South Africa. He grew up on the edge of a city next to a ~500-acre nature preserve of coastal bush. His father crewed on a commercial fishing boat on weekends. After a stint in boarding school, where he learned "Smoking, strong drink and pursuit of wild women", he was conscripted at the age of 17 into the South African Defence Force and sent to the Angolan border as a medic (his last choice). "My choices were five years in jail, leave the country, or go in for a year. I'm a strong swimmer, but the Atlantic seemed too large...." The year stretched into two. Afterwards he married, went to university and became an ichthyologist, then worked as research officer for the Western Cape commercial shark fishery. To make ends meet, and alleviate writing "amazingly dull" papers on fishery matters, he moonlighted as a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyn McConchie
Lyn McConchie (born 1946) is a New Zealand writer of speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction), picture books for children, a nonfiction humour series, a number of standalone books and many short stories, articles, poems, opinion pieces, and reviews. Biography McConchie was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and attended Freyberg High School in Roslyn. She was crippled in a motorcycle accident in 1977. McConchie has worked in the Justice Department and the Office of Agriculture and Fisheries in Wellington before she began writing professionally in 1990. Since that time she has sold on average one book every eight months. Her first book to appear was ''Farming Daze'', containing humorous true-life stories about her farm and animals. That first book is still in print, with six more since published in that series. In addition to three Vogel Award-winning collaborations, McConchie wrote three sequels in the '' Beast Master'' series that Andre Norton inaugurated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Dedman
Stephen Dedman (born 1959) is an Australian author of dark fantasy and science fiction stories and novels. Biography Dedman's short stories have appeared in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', '' Year's Best SF'', and ''The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing: A Fifty Year Collection''. Contributing as a story editor, Dedman is also one of the team members behind Borderlands, a tri-annual Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine published between 2003-2009 from Perth, Western Australia. In 2007, he contributed to the '' Doctor Who'' short-story collection, '' Short Trips: Destination Prague''. Bibliography Novels * ''The Art of Arrow-Cutting'' (Tor Books, 1997) * ''Shadows Bite'' (Tor, 2001) (sequel to ''The Art of Arrow-Cutting'') * ''Foreign Bodies'' (Tor, 1999) * ''Shadowrun: A Fistful of Data'' (ROC, 2006). * ''Shadowrun: For a Few Nuyen More'' (Catalyst Game Labs) 2021 Story collections * ''The Lady of Situations'' ( Ticonderoga Publications, 1999) ... [...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] |