Who Are the Twelve Planets? Margo Lanagan, Lucy Sussex, Rosaleen Love, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Deborah Biancotti, Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks, Sue Isle, Kirstyn McDermott, Narrelle M Harris, Thoraiya Dyer, Deborah Kalin. These Australians give me hope for the future of female, and even feminist, writers in sf.…

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Who Are the Twelve Planets? Margo Lanagan, Lucy Sussex, Rosaleen Love, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Deborah Biancotti, Kaaron Warren, Cat Sparks, Sue Isle, Kirstyn McDermott, Narrelle M Harris, Thoraiya Dyer, Deborah Kalin. What Are the Twelve Planets? The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story writers.…

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Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti ISBN 978-0-9808274-9-1 Cover design by Amanda Rainey Ebook conversion by Charles Tan Published January 2012 . Hate superheroes? Yeah. They probably hate you, too. ‘There are two kinds of people with lawyers on tap, Mr Grey. The powerful and the corrupt.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘For implying you’re powerful?’ ‘For imagining those are two different groups.’ From Crawford Award nominee Deborah Biancotti comes this sinister short story suite, a pocketbook police procedural, set in a world where the victories are only relative, and the defeats are absolute.…

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Nightsiders by Sue Isle ISBN 978-0-9870828-9-3 Cover design by Amanda Rainey Ebook Conversion by Charles Tan Published July 2012 In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia’s capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late ’30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone.…

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Showtime by Narrelle M. Harris ISBN 978-0-9872162-1-2 Cover design by Amanda Rainey Ebook conversion by Charles Tan Published July 2012     Family drama can be found anywhere: in kitchens, in cafes. Derelict hotels, showground rides. Even dungeons far below ruined Hungarian castles. (Okay, especially in Hungarian dungeons.) Old family fights can go on forever, especially if you’re undead.…

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