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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Dreams of the Technarion
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Technarion, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction
An electronic computer is built in London in 1875–but by whom?
(p. 7-36)
The Audience, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction
A five-man survey ship explores a distant ice planet, which is not as free from alien life as they had believed.
(p. 37-60)
The Lost Faces, Sean McMullen , single work short story fantasy historical fiction

'Marcus Fulder is the best man at finding runaway slaves in the Rome of the early days of the reign of Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. It is because he has a talent for remembering faces. He is called in by a merchant named Gaius Maximus Secundus to find a runaway female slave from India named Vishesti. He wants her back because she has developed an aquatic creature called a navitar that could be grown big enough to tow ships. Her talent seems more than human. Her children, who have been corrupted by Rome and speak Latin while putting emphasis on the wrong syllable, say she is an ifrit, a demon. Is her power magical or something else? Vishesti curses Rome for what has been done to her children. Does she succeed?'

Source: SF Revu (http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=14369). (Sighted: 21/02/2018)

(p. 61-88)
Exceptional Forces, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction

When a Russian scientist discovers an alien colonising force, an assassin is sent after him to keep him from sharing the news.

(p. 89-106)
The Influence Machine, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction historical fiction

'In 1899 London, Inspector Grant investigates a lady who claims her big electrical apparatus is for a camera, even though it looks like a bomb or a death ray.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rack (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2017/03/The-Influence-Machine-Sean-McMullen.html) (Sighted: 30/04/2018)

(p. 107-130)
The Ninth Seduction, Sean McMullen , single work short story
In fairy realms, as the castellerine prepares for an annual ritual, an earthly ship, laden with modern technology, appears, planning for revenge.
(p. 131-148)
The Luminarium Tower, Sean McMullen , single work short story

'Seldom was the Mediterranean Sea so very calm that the wavelets were barely visible at the entrance to the Canal of Erythraea, gateway to the orient. In the western sky the moon hung as a thin crescent, and beside it Venus gleamed like burning silver. The sorceress Xarial stood on the wharf of green granite, tall, svelte, crowned by cascades of pale hair, gazing west through a tube of polished brass. Two figures approached, the smaller of them not half the height of his master. Xarial's swarthy Iberian guard. Grattan, looked on warily. ' (Introduction)

(p. 149-162)
The Firewall and the Door, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction (p. 163-192)
The Life and Soul of the Party, Sean McMullen , single work short story (p. 193-210)
Charon's Anchor, Sean McMullen , single work short story science fiction (p. 211-228)
Outpost of Wonder : SF in Australia 1832-2017, Sean McMullen , single work essay (p. 229-304)

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