"Before Isaac Asimovâs first novel Pebble in the Sky, there was "Grow Old Along with Me," its original version lost in a library vault for nearly 40 years.Before Sir Arthur C. Clarkeâs masterpiece The...
Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. ***The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Brode...
In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the "New Wave." This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss,...
In his Foreword, Rich Horton says: "First rate stories.." "Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order" is a clever and very funny time travel romp; "The Beancounterâs Cat" is set...
Four long adventures by a master story-teller. Uncle Bones Medical research brings you back from death, but only just. Nanotech turns you into a Stinky, shunned by the world. And you're only 15 years old. The Magi The Jesuit starship St. Ignatius Loyola,...
"The Qualia Engine" is a worthy addition to the long line of superman-in-hiding stories that stretches all the way back to Olaf Stapledon, with notable stops along the way⦠A dense story with a rich nougat vein of well-observed...
Climbing Mount Implausible showcases a writerâs growth though nearly fifty years of questing into the future. It includes his first published stories, plus detailed notes on his own evolution as a writer, his recent Philip K. Dick tribut...
Award-winning writer Dr. Damien Broderick gathers his most forthright articles from the 1960s and â70s, on topics ranging from sex, politics, and religion to drugs and the way things were before the Internet, and caps them with sharp...
In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the sixth Wildside Double.ALIEN STARSWARM, by Robert SheckleySalvatore commands the battleship Endymion. Heâs seen his share of...
This second anthology of the best of Australian SF Review includes pieces by Gregory Benford, Janeen Webb, Lucius Shepard, Jenny Blackford, George Turner, Yvonne Rousseau, Douglas Barbour, and others--writing about Watchmen, cyberpunk, steampunk, Philip...
My father is the Rev. Daimon Keith. At the age of twenty, he was abducted near a school playground by small gray aliens. Indeed, Daimon was taken up into UFOs not just that once, but from infancy, and over and again. It caused him to devote his middle...
This selection of the best critical articles from the well-known literary magazine, Australian SF Review, includes essays by John Bangsund, John Baxter, Martin Bridgstock, Jenny Blackford, Russell Blackford, Damien Broderick, John Foyster, Bruce Gillespie...
"This is a comic, crazy, original crime novel. You wonât find another one like it this year, or, more likely, ever." Bill CriderR. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only...
Novelist and scholar Damien Broderick offers an exhilarating report on the state of science fiction at the start of the millennium. In the 21st century, we see a new wave rising in SF: itâs complex, transreal, slipstreamy, post-postmoder...
Damien Broderick `has had a major impact as an Australian SF writer since 1964. He is undoubtedly the leading Australian theorist of the SF genreâ (Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, Sean McMullen, Strange Constellations). Now, Broderick draws...
Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverte...