Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

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.This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her.Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body won the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Awa...

Karinette Lichtermann, xenolinguist, is one of many mission specialists aboard the List of Wealthy Donors, on a mission to encounter the alien civilisation responsible for an indecipherable radio signal first received on Earth five decades earlier.Humanity's first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species will be an unparalleled achievement... if all goes to plan.

'The 1001 Top Immortality Treatments You Must Try Before You Die' is Simon Petrie's latest collection of short speculative fiction. Petrie's work is characterised by its versatility, ranging from short humorous pieces to futuristic extrapolations grounded in scientifically robust underpinnings.

Cory needs the past to be forgotten.Portia needs to uncover what has been hidden, and Cory needs the work she's offering.'Soft Dim Skies' is a spare and gradual exploration into the unknown, on the most mysterious moon in the Solar System.

Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our third annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field today.‘In the Slip’ by Emillie Colyer - O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!‘Guitarrista’s Lament’ by Jeff Suwak - A Guitarrista’s life is full of laughter and sadness, more of each than most people know.‘Preservation of Faith’ by Dustin Adams ...

Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift.The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift.All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is to be able to finish his crossword in piece. But people keep inconsiderately dying of unnatural causes during their stay aboard his lift-module on the Skyward space elevator.Welcome ...

Dodging flying chairs, wrestling screaming, abusive children and dealing with angry parents.This is part of the daily fare for Hugo Walker who fights crime and violence every day.His beat is not the cruel streets but the classrooms, corridors and playgrounds of Kookaburra Primary School. Hugo is part of the rapid response group charged with keeping children and staff safe from harm.It is a big job.Travel with Hugo behind the scenes. Join him in his quest to ...

Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed to take hold in eight billion years.80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess is a collection of SF short fiction, sometimes humorous and sometimes dead...

To solve the mystery of the Bougainvillaea's disappearance, investigator/pilot Charmain Mertz must return to the conservative world of her boyhood.Flight 404 is a novella blending elements of SF, murder mystery, and transgender fiction.

Light levels are low. It's killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected.The icy landscape around you—hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an opaque, lowering sky—wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber, puddled with drifts of dark sand. The atmosphere, though thick, would permit only a parody of respiration: there is no succour in it. Were it not for the insulating, carefully-regulated containment of your suit, you woul...