Cirrus@Austlit

'Destroy one truth for another! After attempting suicide, ancient language researcher, Jessie Willis, awakens in Thexlan, realm of spirits, dreams and fables, the realisation of all worlds. Striving to understand her predicament, she joins forces with immortal wizard, Zane, who desires total knowledge and power. With other travellers, they battle deities and predators, including Abzzu, an enormous shadow energy creature intent on stopping them from reaching Mt Alkerii, the creation volcano at the centre of Thexlan. To survive the perilous journey the companions must unravel each other's mysteries and choose between power or service.' (Publication summary)

'Can a genetically modified orphaned baby elephant stop the extinction of African elephants through poaching for ivory?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

A collection of science-fiction short stories set on Titan, a moon of Saturn.

'Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why.

'Edwina Harvey's short fiction embraces the everyday, the faraway, the otherworldly. The 'stuff' in these stories ranges from the quest for mythical gold or the exploration of far-flung vistas of the Galaxy to the desire to simply enjoy the sunshine, while the 'things' may have wings, fangs, horns, or a variable number of limbs.

'(The 'things', of course, are also people.)

'The earliest of these stories were first published over three decades ago, while the most recent are new to this volume.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A sumptuously-illustrated surrealistic adventure inspired by the extraterrestrial menagerie of nineteenth-century Christian mystic Jakob Lorber.' (Publication summary)

'Walking is a collection of dark, gritty, true-life, crime and science fiction short stories by emerging Australian writer, Sean O’Leary.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Tame Animals of Saturn, by Adam Browne, is a sumptuously-illustrated compendium of fantastical animals inspired by the imagined extraterrestrial menagerie of nineteenth-century Christian mystic, Jakob Lorber.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out Of Hell is a collection of speculative fiction, ranging from the deadly serious to the frankly frivolous, from the unusual mind of Simon Petrie.

'Difficult Second Album includes several previously-released favourites, a healthy selection of new stories including a new Gordon Mamon space-elevator murder mystery novella, and the notorious ‘Suckers for Love’.' (Publication summary)

A 'collection of short stories set in a rural Australian landscape you never knew existed.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Matchless prose to fire your imagination! Offering 13 wonderous works of fiction from Joanne Anderton, Adam Browne, Sue Bursztynski, Brenda Cooper, Katherine Cummings, Thoraiya Dyer, Kathleen Jennings, Dave Luckett, Ian McHugh, Sean McMullen, Ripley Patton, Rob Porteous and Anna Tambour' (publisher's blurb).

Gordon Mamon is a space elevator employee and, reluctantly, private detective.