Laura Goodin Laura Goodin i(A117431 works by) (a.k.a. Laura E. Goodin)
Gender: Female
Heritage: American
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1 The Watcher of Greenwich Laura Goodin , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: From the Wasteland 2022;

'Yet still in London, Laura E Goodin takes us to an alternative sixteenth century, where a half-trained sorcerer and the queen of the realm defy the eldritch being that’s cursed her family, tormented her people – the dire ‘Watcher of Greenwich’.'

Source: https://clarerhoden.com/from-the-wasteland-the-writers/from-the-waste-land-meet-the-stories/

1 Loving the Gorgon Laura Goodin , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Heroines : An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry 2018; (p. 80-81)
1 y separately published work icon Mud and Glass Laura Goodin , Fyshwick : Odyssey Books , 2017 11070825 2017 single work novel fantasy adventure

'Life is fairly workaday for Dr Celeste Carlucci, a professor at Krasnia’s finest university, until her best friend and colleague Pace involves Celeste in her research.

'Before long, Celeste is being shot at from a hovering helicopter, attacked on a moonlit mountain path, and followed by shadowy minions – on the trail of the Littoral Codex, an ancient and indecipherable book.

'The race is on to figure out its secrets. On one side are Celeste and her colleagues, armed with nothing but enthusiasm, brilliant minds, and the principles of geography. Against them are the repressive university governors and their jackbooted campus security guards; the rich and power-hungry Praxicopolis family; and a renegade group of researchers, the Littoral League.

'Will this ragtag bunch outwit their foes before it’s too late?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Water Cools Not Love Laura Goodin , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 22 no. 2 2017;
1 Regent of the Tiny Queen Laura Goodin , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 17 no. 6 2016;
1 1 y separately published work icon After the Bloodwood Staff Laura Goodin , Fyshwick : Odyssey Books , 2016 10853500 2016 single work novel fantasy adventure

'The sedentary and impractical Hoyle meets Sybil Alvaro in a used bookstore, and she invites him to follow in the footsteps of her favourite author in a search for the mysterious Bloodwood Staff. He’s spent his entire life reading vintage adventure action, and thinks he knows how these things should go.

'In the mountains west of Sydney, his expectations are almost immediately derailed, as nobody – not Sybil, and certainly not the irrepressible Ada Drake, stand-in for the obligatory plucky urchin – behaves the way they’re supposed to.

'As they gradually realise that their lighthearted adventure has put themselves and their loved ones in dire peril, Hoyle is forced to face the fact that he is woefully unsuited to be the stereotypical hero.

'A deliberate subversion of adventure, fantasy and satire tropes, After the Bloodwood Staff is a brilliant and unexpected ride.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Jimmy’s Boys Laura Goodin , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Never Never Land 2015; (p. 69-76)
1 An Ear for Home Laura Goodin , 2010 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Baggage : Tales of Speculative Fiction 2010; (p. 154-166)
1 Steampunk Meets 1940s' Hollywood Film Noir Laura Goodin , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , December 2010/January 2011 no. 194 2010; (p. 14)
1 The Bicycle Rebellion Laura Goodin , 2010 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Daily Science Fiction , November 2011;
1 Turcotte's Battle Laura Goodin , 2010 single work short story
— Appears in: Wet Ink , June no. 19 2010; (p. 22-27)
1 The Dancing Mice and the Giants of Flanders Laura Goodin , 2009 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Masques 2009; (p. 3-13)
1 The Name Thieves Laura Goodin , 2009 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , no. 42 2009; (p. 34-40)
1 Piggy in a Pit Laura Goodin , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , August no. 5 2009; (p. 42-47)
1 The Miner's Tale Laura Goodin , 2008 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Canterbury 2100 : Pilgrimages in a New World 2008; (p. 48-63)
1 I'm Too Loud Laura Goodin , 2008 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , July-August no. 122 2008;
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