'This collection of short fiction is an imagining of the impact - personal, interpersonal, psychological and existential - of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable Mars, if with a nascent love of its cold, harsh beauty, as humanity truly becomes a bi-planetary species.' (Publication summary)
'One of the most memorable opening lines in fiction is Ford Maddox Ford’s ‘This is the saddest story I have ever heard.’ The Good Soldier is subtitled ‘A Tale of Passion’ – ‘tale’ implying a discursive telling and an unreliable narrator.But a new, tiny Australian book of short, amusing, even rollickingly funny stories told by a reliable though idiosyncratic narrator, tells a far sadder story.' (Introduction)
'Everyone on Mars comprises 12 independent short stories imagining what may happen were humans to colonise the planet Mars; the focus is on people rather than technology. '
'Everyone on Mars comprises 12 independent short stories imagining what may happen were humans to colonise the planet Mars; the focus is on people rather than technology. '
'One of the most memorable opening lines in fiction is Ford Maddox Ford’s ‘This is the saddest story I have ever heard.’ The Good Soldier is subtitled ‘A Tale of Passion’ – ‘tale’ implying a discursive telling and an unreliable narrator.But a new, tiny Australian book of short, amusing, even rollickingly funny stories told by a reliable though idiosyncratic narrator, tells a far sadder story.' (Introduction)
