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1 8 y separately published work icon Forever Shores : Fiction of the Fantastic Peter McNamara (editor), Margaret Winch (editor), Kent Town : Wakefield Press Aphelion Publications , 2003 Z1089382 2003 anthology short story extract fantasy science fiction

An anthology comprising 17 Australian short fantasy stories.
1 4 y separately published work icon Wonder Years : The Ten Best Stories From a Decade Past Peter McNamara (editor), Parramatta : Aphelion Publications MirrorDanse Books , 2003 Z1039921 2003 anthology short story science fiction fantasy young adult A selection of Australian science fiction short stories from the period when locally-written SF finally was coming of age. From urban fantasy to tales of myths, dreams and warriors of the future, Wonder Years plots a course across the works of the leading writers and dynamic newcomers of the genre.
1 4 y separately published work icon The Unknown Soldier Sean Williams , Shane Dix , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1995 Z463954 1995 single work novel science fiction

'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 unknown 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.'

Source: Rising Shadow (http://www.risingshadow.net/library/book/2408-the-unknown-soldier). (Sighted: 17/6/2014)
1 6 y separately published work icon An Intimate Knowledge of the Night Terry Dowling , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1995 Z350550 1995 selected work horror

'When an author sits down to 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, party incantatory process, part vindication of those very theories which will change forever the way he sees the world.' (Source: bookseller's website.)

1 8 y separately published work icon Mirrorsun Rising Sean McMullen , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1995 Z280542 1995 single work novel science fiction 'Set in a far-future Australia where electricity has been outlawed and society is overviewed by human-powered computers (largely driven by librarians), restricted quasi-medieval guilds struggle for supremacy and to discover the secret of the past. This gradual understanding of past technologies, such as exploring the role of the orbiting space platforms, accelerates in the second volume (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
2 10 y separately published work icon Voices in the Light Sean McMullen , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1994 Z160208 1994 single work novel science fiction

'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?'

Source: Publisher's Blurb
1 10 y separately published work icon Alien Shores : An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction Peter McNamara (editor), Margaret Winch (editor), North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1994 Z296377 1994 anthology short story science fiction satire Comprising only seven reprints, the new stories are from SF luminaries such as George Turner, Lucy Sussex and Sean McMullen. 'Several of the stories have an almost 1950s golden age tinge to them - for example, George Turner's first-contact story 'Flowering Mandrake,' in which humanity and aliens find they have little in common. In 'The Miocene Arrow Sean McMullen continues his stories in which prehistoric cetaceans take revenge on humanity. In 'Kay and Phil,' Lucy Sussex produces a wonderful vignette of Philip K. Dick in 1961 and the imaginary influences on his cult novel The Man in the High Castle... Fascinating is [Damien Broderick's] short introduction [to 'The Magi'], which tells of his meeting with a prostitute who loves science fiction at a seminar at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
1 6 y separately published work icon Twilight Beach Terry Dowling , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1993 Z101134 1993 selected work short story science fiction Set in a future where the centre of Australia is under the control of Aboriginals, while the 'Nationals' are confined to the thin coastal strips, Twilight Beach explores a future that might have arisen from the Mabo/Native title debates of the early 1990s.

'Dowling's troubled hero, Tom Tyson is the captain of a sand-ship and one of the few authorised to travel across Aboriginal lands. Tyson, a future version of the Wandering Jew, has been imprisoned and released from the "Madhouse" at Cape Bedlam. His past is unclear, and Dowling implies that some of Tyson's earlier memories are not what they seemed — has Tyson been programmed after his "madness" occurred' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77 2001, p.52)
1 8 y separately published work icon The Sea's Furthest End Damien Broderick , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1993 Z84046 1993 single work novel science fiction young adult
1 5 y separately published work icon Call to the Edge Sean McMullen , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1992 Z509886 1992 selected work short story science fiction
1 4 y separately published work icon Blue Tyson Terry Dowling , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1992 Z500930 1992 selected work short story science fiction
1 4 y separately published work icon Back Door Man Ian McAuley Hails , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1992 Z221396 1992 single work novel science fiction '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. His problem: What do Jim Morrison and the Doors, a white supremacy group, a security leak at Joint Service Intelligence, a nightclub called "The Pits of Hell," and the murder of a computer programmer have in common? Entangled in an intriguing web of secrets and subterfuge, he finds more than he bargained for: drugs, espionage, sexual perversion, and cheap trinkets. And he also finds himself at the back door of a city few care to see. If Plat fails, Australia may never be the same again'. Source: bookseller's website.
1 9 y separately published work icon Wormwood Terry Dowling , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1991 Z98305 1991 selected work short story science fiction
1 5 y separately published work icon A Pursuit of Miracles : Eight Stories George Turner , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1990 Z455022 1990 selected work short story science fiction
1 13 y separately published work icon Rynosseros Terry Dowling , North Adelaide : Aphelion Publications , 1990 Z343407 1990 selected work short story science fiction
1 y separately published work icon Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine Peter McNamara (editor), 1986 Stirling : Aphelion Publications , 1986-1987 Z1724931 1986 periodical (5 issues) 'Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine emerged in early 1986, and lasted for five issues: a year of publication. Edited by Peter McNamara (assisted by Dianne DeBellis), it featured some very fine fiction and comment, full-colour airbrushed cover art (by Steve Altman and John Beswick) and paid professional rates for fiction. The Table of Contents for its sixth - unpublished - issue reads like a who's who of Australia's genre writers, featuring Damien Broderick, Frank Bryning, Greg Egan, George Turner and Terry Dowling, as well as Geffrey Maloney, Paul Enever, Wendy Frew, Noel Burns, L F Cairncross, Eric Harries-Harris and Jeff Harris. Who knows what might have happened had Aphelion lasted? Issue length hovered around 96 pages, and its A4 format allowed for a lot of material. Aphelion included fiction, review, comment, comic strips and black-and-white illustration' ( Aphelion Publications website: http://www.eidolon.net/aphelion/aphelion.htm sighted 14/09/2010).
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