An anthology of Australian Science Fiction.

Damien Broderick "The Magi", Simon Brown "Rain From the New God", Frank Bryning "MPR Crusoe", Paul Collins "The Flick Went That-Away", Stephen Dedman "Desired Dragons", Shane Dix"Through the Waters that Bind", Bill Dodds "Mnemonic Plague", Terry Dowling "The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House", Greg Egan "The Caress", Amos Fairchild "Housekeeping", Leanne Frahm "Land's End", Ian McAuley Hails "Crowd Control", Jeff Harris "Crash Jordan in the Art World of Drongo", Sue Isle "Kill Me Once", Rosaleen Love "Blue Venom", Sean McMullen "The Miocene Arrow", Geoffrey Maloney "The Last Lion in Africa is Dead", Carole Nomarhas "Soul Horizon", Yvonne Rousseau "The Listener", Chris Simmons "Moon-Watcher Breaks the Bones", Edith Speers "Welcome to the World", E.W. Story "Cold Sleep, Cold Dreams...", Dirk Strasser "At Rain's Grey Remembering", Lucy Sussex "Kay & Phil", George Turner "Flowering Mandrake", Paul Voermans "My Sister, Cristeta, Who is Magic", Kurt von Trojan "The Man Who Snatched Marilyn's Body", Wynne Whiteford "Jubilee", Sean Williams "The Soap Bubble".

At 250,000 words with 29 of Australia's Finest SF Writers, and featuring 22 original stories, this is a landmark collection.

ISBN 1 875346 09 0, 623 pages, large trade paperback. Introduction by Damien Broderick. $19.95 (Aust) $21.75 (Cdn) $15.00 (US) £7.50 (UK)

The Blue Captain....
Of the seven Nationals who have won Colours and fine sand-ships from the tribes, earning for themselves the right to cross the eerie and exotic Australia of the future, Tom Rynosseros is the most mysterious. He is the one from the Madhouse, the Captain whose adventures among the powerful tribes of the interior reveal a hidden purpose, a destiny waiting out in the red deserts which affects not only Nation but the Dreamtime itself.

"The pleasure in reading Dowling lies in his evocation of a mood or a moment. He tests emotional responses in the delicate way a musician might tune an instrument." - FOUNDATION

Featuring the 1993 Readercon Award winner: "Breaking Through to the Heroes"

ISBN 1 875346 05 8, trade pb. 252 pages.
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A Ship, a Star, a Woman's Face...
All that Tom Rynosseros remembers from his time in the Madhouse. But who was he? Why did the powerful Ab'O tribes send him there? What do the three signs mean? From the haunted streets of Twilight Beach to the burning heart of this future Australia, from the eerie wind-river called the Soul to the dream-ridden shores of the Inland Sea, Tom searches desperately for whatever pieces of his life he can find.

"A singularly impressive mixture of poetical imagery, creativity and sheer storytelling power." - INTERZONE

ISBN 1 875346 08 2, trade pb. 280 pages.
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The Wonder and the Terror....
When an author sits downto write the linking pieces for the stories in his new book, planning to do it by the hours of the night observed by medieval scholars, he is interrupted by phonecalls from his eccentric yet harmless friend, Raymond, a former mental patient with whom he shares some curious notions about the perceived world. At first casual and interested, even helpful, these calls soon become increasingly tense and strange, until the author realizes that what started out as an innocent, fun idea - a shared all-night vigil on the autumn Equinox - is actually serving some other vital purpose, becoming by stages part therapy, part incantatory progress, part vindication of those very theories which will change forever the way he sees the world. Terry Dowling's marvellous new book is about rapture, fear, the secret, darkest mysteries of the world and the human spirit.

"As a thematic and historical collection of Dowling's work, it's excellent... an essential piece of Australian speculative fiction." - EIDOLON

Winner: 1995 Aurealis Award & featuring the 1985, 1986, 1988 & 1990 winners of the Ditmar Award for short fiction: "The Terrarium", "The Bullet That Grows in the Gun", "The Last Elephant" & "The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House"

ISBN 1 875346 15 5, trade pb. 285 pages.
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Earth...After Wormwood... Centuries from now, a world invaded the the all-powerful Nobodoi and their servant races, re-made as a strange and mighty patchwork of land-bridges and alien enclaves, where the remnants of a blasted Humanity are lucky just to survive.

The Human Heroes Aspen Dirk, Jamis Talby, Hollis Green, the mad poet Antelim...those who travel the patchwork, who meet the Hoproi warmasters, the gleaming Matta whose houses Kill, the Darzie mind-rider, the living spaceships, the Amazi, whose greatest longing is to couple with Human women...

All part of what the world has become...after Wormwood.

ISBN 1 875346 02 3, trade pb. 253 pages.
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Australia of the very near future.
Nationalistic fervour and religious fundamentalism are on the rise. Drugs, espionage and sexual perversion are commonplace. The real enemy is the enemy within. Steven Plat is Head of a small National Security Organization. Entangled in an intriguing web of secrets and subterfuge, he finds himself at the back door of a city few care to see. If Plat fails, Australia may never be the same again.

"Tough and uncompromising, full of humour and sharp observation, Back Door Man stands firmly in two genres and does well in both: as exotic spy thriller and an ominous speculation on present-day trends." - THE AUSTRALIAN

ISBN 1 875346 04 X, trade pb. 415 pages.
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(Book One of Greatwinter)

In the Australia of the distant future computers live on, although electricity and even steam power have ceased to exist long ago. The mighty Calculor of Libris is about to be commissioned, but is making strange errors. A programmer has been assassinated and components are being shot for negligence. Time is running out and important questions must be answered. Will the trains run on time after the end of the world? Can a Battle Calculor still function while drunk? Was there an ice age in the 21st Century, and how long ago was the 21st Century anyway?

"This is a powerful beginning to what promises to be a splendid, and splendidly imaginative, series." - FOUNDATION

Listed in Notable Works for 1994 by
Science Fiction: The Illustrated Encyclopedia

ISBN 1 875346 10 4, trade pb. 320 pages.
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(Book Two of Greatwinter)

In the distant future of Australia, the greenhouse effect is no longer a problem - until an ancient anti-greenhouse engine in space manages to switch itself on. Only the Highliber of Libris can devise a solution, with the aid of her mighty Calculor and her strange ally, the mysterious Abbess Theresla of Glenellen. Or can she? Across the deserts to the north, an escaped component has built a rival calculor, and a renegade librarian is organising an invasion. Which Calculor will win - or is there some quite new factor at work in the politics and battlefields of 40th century Australia?

Introduction by Michael J. Tolley

If you had a window on the afterlife, would you kill to gaze through it? How can a man armoured only in green vines capture a desert fortress? How can a 19th Century piano vituoso begin her career after she dies? If refugee Trojans built Rome, what might refugees from the fall of Rome build? McMullen gives fantastic but feasible technologies to real people, then invites us to stand back and observe.

"Sean McMullen is one of the shining lights of Australian science fiction." - AUREALIS

Featuring the 1991 & 1992 Ditmar Award winners for Short Fiction: "While The Gate Is Open" & "Alone In His Chariot"

ISBN 1 875346 06 6, trade pb. 255 pages.
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On Shrirampur, Chakravalin Chakravatin is heir to a galactic empire being forged by his monstrous father, the dictator, Jagannatha, a man who has taken from him the woman he loves. Chakravalin has vowed to reclaim her and to stand against everything that Empire means... On Earth, young dayton Ellis struggles with approaching manhood - and with a larger mystery, alien beyond his comprehension.... And watching over it all are the Kleth, immortal beings, withdrawn from human affairs, returned to their homeworld within the singularity at the galactic core.....

"Damien Broderick's The Sea's Furthest End manages to tackle large issues of cosmological rise and fall in an admirably condensed text ... he scarcely presses a wrong input key in this galactic "jeu d'esprit"." - SIRIUS

ISBN 1 875346 07 4, trade pb. 202 pages.
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(Book one of the Cogal)

In the bubble of space known as the Cogal, seven sentient races co-exist uneasily. Peace is always short lived. Commander Megan Moroney, Intelligence Officer for the New Amran Republic, is delivering an AI of onknown powers to her superiors in HighFleet. Her last port of call is the penal colony on Longmire's Planet. There, accompanied by the mysterious castaway, John Nine, a rebel cyborg and a powerful young mind-rider, Moroney will come to question everything she holds true. What is the relevence of a war fought three hundred years ago? And where should she place her allegiance, when even what it means to be human is cast into doubt? In the Cogal, the truth is never quite what it seems.

"I thought of both Niven modified by Alfred Bester, or better yet, of Iain M. Banks's similarly layered Against a Dark Background. The story's elements are as complex and hoary as its background, and finally just as effectively managed ... it is this sense of a large and dark universe, full of wonders and horrors, secret histories and long-held grudges, that promises to make the Cogal an interesting place to revisit." - LOCUS

ISBN 1 875346 11 2, trade pb. 361 pages.
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Eight journeys into the future from this prize-winning author.

A civilized society where barbarism is the norm.
A search for super-intelligence that goes horribly wrong.
A world where to be Non-Legal is to be non-human.
An experiment to test the very nature of reality.

"Turner provides variants of many of the standard themes of SF, such as genetic engineering and benign utopianism, which in many fictional hands results in superbeings and supercivilisations. Turner sees instead a new dimension to our potential for tragedy. For an intelligent fictional warning as to the scientific and societal forces of today that will determine our future, we all need A Pursuit of Miracles." - AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW

ISBN 1 875346 00 7, trade pb. 221 pages
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The editor of Metaworlds, Penguin's successful compilation of Australian science fiction, presents here for the first time a volume of his own work. Long established as an author, editor and publisher of the influential Void series of magazines and books, this collection of stories provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the work of one fo Australia's leading science fiction figures.

"This is largely was SF is all about: presenting plausible themes to suggest that things such as invisibility, Jekyl & Hyde potions, creation of Frankenstein monsters, the rebirth of dinosaurs, et al, might be possible. SF is an explorative genre, and here Paul Collins explores"
- Jack Wodhams

ISBN 0 646 19774 6, 243 pages, trade paperback.
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Back in the sixties, Australian TV audiences thrilled to the peculiar pleasures offered by 'the Master' in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and by Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. British purveyor of all that was twisted and disturbing, Roald Dahl, delighted and horrified readers and viewers with his Tales of the Unexpected. In that tradition of the delicious frisson caused by tension and unease, Paul Collins brings you a collection of tales by Australian masters and mistresses of the bizarre, the unnerving, the outre.

ISBN 0 14 024805 6, 235 pages, trade paperback.
$14.95 (Aust) $14.50 (Cnd) $10.00 (US)