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Weavers Of The Twilight
"Weavers of Twilight" is a 2004 fantasy short story by Louise Katz. Background "Weavers of Twilight" was first published in 2004 in ''Agog! Smashing Stories'', edited by Cat Sparks and published by Agog! Press. It was published alongside 19 other stories by the authors Robert Hood, Paul Haines, Claire McKenna, Jeremy Shaw, Deborah Biancotti, Dirk Flinthart, Sean McMullen, Bryn Sparks, Justine Larbalestier, Kim Westwood, Martin Livings, Grace Dugan, Ben Peek, Marianne de Pierres, Richard Harland, Simon Brown, Trent Jamieson, Brendan Duffy and Iain Triffitt. "Weavers of Twilight" joint-won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story along with Richard Harland's "Catabolic Magic "Catabolic Magic" is a 2004 fantasy short story by English writer Richard Harland. Background "Catabolic Magic" was first published in April 2004 in ''Aurealis'' #32, edited by Keith Stevenson and published by Chimaera Publications. It was publ ...". Synopsis References 2004 short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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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] |
Catabolic Magic
"Catabolic Magic" is a 2004 fantasy short story by English writer Richard Harland. Background "Catabolic Magic" was first published in April 2004 in ''Aurealis'' #32, edited by Keith Stevenson and published by Chimaera Publications. It was published alongside five other stories by the authors Paul Haines, Stephen Dedman, Sue Isle, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Brendan Duffy. "Catabolic Magic" joint-won the 2004 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story along with Louise Katz' " Weavers of the Twilight" and was a short-list nominee for the 2005 Ditmar Award The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ... for best Australian novella or novelette. Synopsis References External linksAurealis #32at Aurealis.com.au 2004 short stories Australian short stories Fantasy short s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Duffy
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Trent Jamieson
Trent Jamieson is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography Jamieson was first published in 1994 with the short story "Threnody" which was published in the winter edition ''Eidolon (Australian magazine)''. In 2003 Jamieson was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best professional achievement but lost to Jonathan Strahan. In 2005 Jamieson won the Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story with his story " Slow and Ache". In 2008 he won his second Aurealis Award. " Cracks" won the Aurealis Award for best young-adult short story, beating works by Deborah Biancotti, Dirk Flinthart and Kevin MacLean. In 2010 his first novel, ''Death Most Definite'', was published by Orbit Books and was nominated for the Aurealis Award for best horror novel and the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel. ''Death Most Definite'' is the first part of the ''Death Works'' series and was followed by a sequel ''Managing Death'' in early 2011. Jamieson is currently writing a duology for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Brown (author)
Simon Brown (born 1956 in Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian science fiction writer. He originally trained as a journalist and worked for a range of Australian Government Departments, including the Australian Electoral Commission and the NSW Railways Department. He wrote science fiction short stories for many years and some of these have been collected in ''Cannibals in the Fine Light'' (1998). A second collection of Iliad-themed stories, ''Troy'', was published in 2006. He is a member of the Australian Skeptics and edited ''Skeptical – A handbook of pseudoscience and the paranormal'' in 1989. He was also an editor of ''Argos'', the journal of the Canberra Skeptics. He won the 2009 short story division of the ''Aurealis Award'' for his story "The Empire" Brown, Charles N. < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Harland
Richard Harland (born 15 January 1947 in Yorkshire) is an English fantasy and science fiction writer, living in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in 1947 in Huddersfield, United Kingdom and migrated to Australia in 1970. He has been an academic, performance artist and writer, publishing 15 full-length works of fiction, three academic books, short stories and poems. He is the author of the ''Eddon and Vail'' science fiction thriller series, the ''Heaven and Earth'' young adult fantasy trilogy and the illustrated ''Wolf Kingdom'' series for children. He has been awarded the Australian Aurealis Award on five occasions for his fiction. Life and academic career Richard Harland completed undergraduate studies at Cambridge University, graduating with a BA and majoring in English. After graduation, he planned an ambitious doctoral thesis, focusing on a global theory of the language of poetry and approached numerous universities around the globe seeking funding for his research. Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne De Pierres
Marianne de Pierres (born 1961) is an Australian science fiction author. Born in Western Australia, she finished her undergraduate studies at Curtin University in Perth and later studied a Postgraduate Certificate of Arts in Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Queensland. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. Throughout her writing career she has been actively involved in promoting Speculative Fiction in Australia and is the co-founder of the Vision Writers Group with Rowena Cory Daniells, and ROR – wRiters on the Rise, a critiquing group for professional writers. She was also involved in the early planning stage of Clarion South. Publications The greater body of her work has seen publication in the UK and Australia. In 2004, her series of novels with the protagonist Parrish Plessis, a postapocalyptic bodyguard and bounty hunter, was published in the United Kingdom through Orbit Books and in 2005 in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Peek
Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael. Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Fantasy Magazine'' and ''Aurealis''. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called ''The Urban Sprawl Project'', a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal. In 2006 his autobiography, ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth'', was published by Wheatland Press with artwork from Andrew Macrae and Anna Brown. In 2007, ''Black Sheep, a dystopian novel'', was published by Prime Books. In 2007, Peek also began collaborating with artist Anna Brown on ''Nowhere Near Savannah'', an online comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth''. Peek has claimed that every incident described in ''Nowhere near Savannah'' is true. Peek holds a Bachelor of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Dugan
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Martin Livings
Martin Livings (born 1970) is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award. Livings resides in Perth, Western Australia. Livings' short fiction has appeared in the award-winning anthology ''Daikaiju!'' ( Agog! Press), as well as in ''Borderlands'', ''Agog! Terrific Tales'' (Agog! Press) and ''Eidolon'', among many others. His work has been listed in the ''Year's Best Horror and Fantasy'' Recommended Reading, and reprinted in ''Year's Best Australian SF and Fantasy Volume 2'' ( MirrorDanse Books, 2006), ''Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2006 Edition'' ( Brimstone Press, 2006), and ''The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror'' in 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2015 ( Ticonderoga Publications). His first novel, ''Carnies'', was published by Lothian Books in Australia in June 2006. ''Carnies'' was nominated for an Aurealis Award The Aurealis Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
