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Born: Established: 1975 ; Died: Ceased: 1989
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1 Proud and Lonely : A History of Science Fiction Fandom in Australia : Part One : 1936 to 1961 Leigh Edmonds , Norstrilia Press (publisher), 2024 single work non-fiction
1 y separately published work icon The Millennium Job Rob Gerrand , St Kilda : Norstrilia Press , 2022 24511167 2022 single work novel mystery 'Deirdre Makepeace stirred and, half-awake, felt a body next to her.
'She groaned. What had she got herself into last night? Someone else in her bed. How could that be?
'She touched his back. It was cold. It felt wet. There was blood on it.
'He was a complete stranger.
'So commences this gripping crime novel. The mafia are trying to track down $1 billion stolen using special computer code written for a bank at the time of the Millennium Bug on 1 January 2000.
'Detective Inspector John "Winner" Nguyen has his work cut out for him, including visits to New York and Los Angeles, as he tries to discover who the dead man is, how he ended up in Deirdre's bed, and who killed him.'

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1 35 y separately published work icon Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1985 Z427426 1985 selected work short story 'Murnane's innovative fictional techniques in Landscape with Landscape have inspired debates regarding whether the text is a novel or a collection of stories. The cover of the Penguin edition uses the terms "stories" and "fiction," but does not label the text either a novel or a collection of short stories [...] In the last section of the work, 'Landscape with Artist,' Murnane's narrator directly addresses the issue, stating, "I had considered again one of the problems that had kept me from showing my manuscripts to a publisher. I tried to decide whether they were a collection of short stories or whether I could combine them and unify them to make them a single novel ... [I] told myself that ... I would ... devise a new form of prose fiction - neither short story nor novel."' (Nathanael O'Reilly Exploring Suburbia p.217)
1 9 y separately published work icon In the Heart or in the Head : An Essay in Time Travel George Turner , Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1984 Z426790 1984 single work autobiography criticism

'In the Heart or in the Head is a brilliant literary memoir in which George Turner chronicles his chaotic growing-up in a family for whom fact and fantasy were equally acceptable and often indistinguishable. It is also the record of his development as one of Australia’s finest novelists and his entanglement with science fiction.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Orion ed.).
1 4 y separately published work icon An Unusual Angle Greg Egan , Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1983 Z537888 1983 single work novel
1 9 y separately published work icon Dreamworks : Strange New Stories David King (editor), Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1983 Z521523 1983 anthology short story science fiction Anthology of speculative short stories by Australian authors thematically tied together by the concern with the nature of reality.
1 4 y separately published work icon Lavington Pugh Jay Bland , Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1982 Z386198 1982 single work novel satire
1 3 y separately published work icon The Stellar Gauge : Essays on Science Fiction Writers Michael J. Tolley (editor), Kirpal Singh (editor), Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1980 Z1176121 1980 anthology criticism

The Stellar Gauge includes the following essays by Australian authors focusing on non-Australian subjects or writers: 'White Sphinx and Albino Griffin: Images of Death in the Scientific Romances of H. G. Wells' (David J. Lake), 'Arthur C. Clarke' (David Sless), 'Frederick Pohl as a Creator of Future Societies' (George Turner), 'Literature Which Wakens Us: The Science Fiction of Brian W. Aldiss' (Bruce Gillespie); 'Beyond the Enigma: Dick's Questers' (Michael J. Tolley); and 'Immortality and Robert Silverberg' (Frederick Yuan).
2 13 y separately published work icon The Dreaming Dragons : A Time Opera Damien Broderick , Melbourne : Norstrilia Press , 1980 Z368813 1980 single work novel science fiction

'Aboriginal anthropologist Alf Dean Djanyagirnji, with his autistic nephew Mouse, seek evidence that the Rainbow Serpent is a desert myth sprung from the ancient skeleton of a dinosaur. Instead, they find a gate that teleports them into a vault miles beneath sacred Uluruh, the huge eroded monolith once dubbed Ayers Rock by the white invaders. They are not alone. American and Russian scientists and military personnel have drilled into the Vault, and only Mouse's damaged brain can communicate with the Vault intelligence.

'Elsewhere, in California's Big Sur, former hippie physicist and student of the occult Dr. Bill DelFord is commissioned to explain an equally ancient ruin on the far side of the moon. A non-human, extraterrestrial intelligence? A long forgotten intelligent dinosaur species destroyed at the apex of their civilization by the cataclysmic asteroid impact 66 million years ago? Or something worse?

'What these researchers and explorers find, step by incredible step, is a bond between that vanished species and human consciousness, mortal and post-mortem. The Dreaming (originally published under the misleading title The Dreaming Dragons) is a headlong cascade of mythology and advanced physics, hurtling toward an unexpected apotheosis.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Gateway edition)
1 4 y separately published work icon Moon in the Ground Keith Antill , Sydney : Norstrilia Press , 1979 Z35599 1979 single work novel science fiction 'What is really happening at the famous and very secret US base just outside of Alice Springs? Communications with satellites . . . or communications with Pandora? And who is Pandora? An ancient Aboriginal god, the origin of the Rainbow Snake legends from the dreamtime? A computer with a quirky sense of humour? A vanguard of an interstellar invasion fleet? Or is the reality much simpler . . . and much more dangerous?' (Source: back cover blurb.)
1 6 y separately published work icon The View from the Edge : A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories George Turner (editor), Melbourne : Norstrilia Press , 1977 Z111771 1977 anthology short story science fiction This anthology is 'based on a workshop conducted by [George Turner] together with Christopher Priest and Vonda McIntyre. Each story has been edited and in several cases re-written for publication, and each piece is followed by Turner's own assessing comments'. Source: 'Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction'.
1 3 y separately published work icon The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction Lee Harding (editor), Carlton : Norstrilia Press , 1976 Z517246 1976 anthology short story criticism poetry science fiction Drawn from the proceedings of a workshop run by Ursula Le Guin, this anthology 'is very much a record of writing as process, which makes it highly useful for both students and teachers'. Source: 'Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction'.
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