Else Fitzgerald Else Fitzgerald i(9186300 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Works By

Preview all
1 [Review] Everything Feels Like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 158 2023;

— Review of Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , 2022 selected work short story
1 8 y separately published work icon Everything Feels like the End of the World Else Fitzgerald , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2022 24669710 2022 selected work short story science fiction fantasy

'Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures from an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future.

'At the heart of each story is the anchor of what it means to be human: grief, loss, pain and love. A young woman is faced with a terrible choice about her pregnancy in a community ravaged by doubt. An engineer working on a solar shield protecting the Earth shares memories of their lover with an AI companion. Two archivists must decide what is worth saving when the world is flooded by rising sea levels. In a heavily policed state that preferences the human and punishes the different, a mother gives herself up to save her transgenic child.

'These transformative stories are both epic and granular, and forever astonishing in their imaginative detail, sense of revelation and emotional connection. They herald the arrival of a stunning new voice.'  (Publication summary)

1 What I’m Reading Else Fitzgerald , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2017;
1 Sheen Else Fitzgerald , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Joiner Bay & Other Stories 2017;
'The world is dead. Everyone who has come before you has died. You are the last, the last thing that moves.' Humans have left the dying Earth behind and all that is left is their creations who are left to fend for themselves until the sun dies.
1 Slippage Else Fitzgerald , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , no. 10 2016;
The reef has died, water is rising, and power outages common. A couple navigates their relationship in a changing and frightening world.
1 Onder Else Fitzgerald , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , October 2016;
Rotterdam has sunk to the bottom of the ocean and is filled with scavengers and water gypsies. A woman takes a drone into the ruins ‘to see this city for herself, where her ancestors once lived. The street lamps, bridge rails, rusted bicycle frames: the old world, drowned.’
1 Feather/Stone Else Fitzgerald , 2015 single work prose
— Appears in: Offset , October no. 15 2015;
1 River Else Fitzgerald , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 280-287)
X