An ejournal of fiction, non fiction, and artwork set in a shared world, the planet of New Ceres:
'The world of New Ceres was originally devised by Gillian Polack, and further contributed to by the authors and staff writers of [the] first issue. Writers and readers ... build and develop [the] world by submitting fiction and nonfiction world building articles and by interacting on the ezine forums.'
Source: Alisa Krasnostein, 'Editorial', New Ceres 1 (2006).
New Ceres is a world consciously trapped in the eighteenth century, a temporal anachronism enforced by conservative factions within government and by the sinister Lumoscenti (the golden monks). According to the ejournal's main page:
Meet the world of New Ceres, an exciting and dangerous place. Its water is green and its inhabitants are sophisticates.
New Ceres is precarious: its New Enlightenment constrains society as well as liberating old thoughts and literature and drinking customs. The planet plays interstellar politics to defend its independence and it recruits refugees from Old Earth and the conquered New Alliance planets to maintain some dangerous habits
On New Ceres you will find coffee houses and highwaymen, drinks, gambling and illegal hi-technology.
Source: New Ceres (http://ceres.dreamhosters.com/doku.php) Sighted: 25/8/2011
Originally published as a twice-yearly webzine launched on 1 September 2006. New Ceres moved into print in October 2008 with the first of the Twelfth Planet Press novella series set on the planet of New Ceres: Angel Rising by Dirk Flinthart. An anthology of original stories, New Ceres Nights, also set on New Ceres, followed in 2009.
Source: New Ceres website (http://ceres.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=general:about_new_ceres) Sighted: 23/06/2009
Poison and Light
Canberra
:
Shooting Star Press
,
2020
18983176
2020
single work
novel
science fiction
'Renowned artist Grania, famed as a painter of light, arrives in a sleek space ship from Lost Earth, ready to embrace New Ceres and its New Enlightenment in its entirety – its 18th century set up, its coffee houses, its gossipy salons, and its obsession with a low-level approach to tech . . . But is she really ready for its cutthroat society, its strange food issues or for Livia? Livia who toys with lives on a whim, and will stop at nothing to realize her dream society.
'When Grania marries Dal and sets up her own political salons, the stage is set for a battle of wills and poisonous chaos ensues.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
