Congratulations to all the Aurealis Awards winners including us for Rob Stephenson’s SF short story ‘Rains of LaStrange’!
CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through words)
City of Lies by Lian Tanner (Allen & Unwin)
CHILDREN’S FICTION (told primarily through pictures)
Sounds Spooky by Christopher Cheng (author) and Sarah Davis (illustrator) (Random House Australia)
YOUNG ADULT SHORT STORY
“Nation of the Night” by Sue [...]
The short list for this years’ Victorian Chronos Awards has been announced with a nice surprise: Steve Cameron’s Anywhere But Earth short story ‘So Sad, The Lighthouse Keeper’ has been shortlisted in the short fiction category. Go Steve!
The awards will be announced at Continuum in Melbourne on the weekend of 8-11 June.
Best Long Fiction
Black Glass, Meg [...]
The Aurealis Awards shortlist for works published in 2011 has just been announced. Congratulations to all on the shortlist including the three authors with stories in Anywhere but Earth: Penelope Love, Rob Hood and Robert N Stephenson.
FANTASY NOVEL
The Undivided by Jennifer Fallon (HarperVoyager)
Ember and Ash by Pamela Freeman (Hachette)
Stormlord’s Exile by Glenda Larke (HarperVoyager)
Debris by Jo [...]
It’s Ditmar time again. For those eligible to vote, here’s the coeur de lion recommendations:
Best Collected Work
Anywhere but Earth, Keith Stevenson, Coeur de Lion Publishing.
Best novella/ novelette
“SIBO”, Penelope Love
“Space Girl Blues”, Brendan Duffy
Best short story
“Alien Tears”, Wendy Waring
“An Exhibition of the Plague”, Richard Harland
“At The End There Was a Man”, Lee Battersby
“Beautiful”, Cat [...]
Anywhere but Earth was blasted well into orbit yesterday at the Speculative Fiction Writers’ Festival at NSW Writers’ Centre. AbE authors Richard Harland, Alan Baxter and Margo Lanagan wowed the crowds with extracts from their stories, before some serious book buying. Thanks to curator Kate Forsyth and all the cool Centre staff.
Thanks to Greenspace for the [...]
As you see from our happy snap, the physical version of Anywhere but Earth has finally landed and is available for purchase anywhere on Earth. Just toddle over to our online store to get your order in. The ebook will be available very, very soon. Watch this space. And don’t forget the official launch at 1.15pm [...]
It feels like it’s been a lo-o-o-ng time coming, mainly because it has, but all the grunt work has now been done, the book is at the printers (Australian and UK), the ebook is in beta testing, and we have our official launch extravaganza set for 5th November – what better time to set off a [...]
Editing and publishing a book is kind of like climbing a mountain: one step at a time and keep your eyes on the summit. Well that peak is so close we can almost touch it. And the view is particularly lovely.
Click through on the cover thumbnail to see the Anywhere but Earth cover in its full [...]
Coming November 2011
The good people at futuristic website io9.com are well-balanced, right-thinking individuals. This is clearly shown by their recent rant about why we need more space adventure. It’s true that this year is the first since the 80s where there is no live action space-based TV drama on our screens (nope, Fallen Skies does [...]
If you don’t know by know that our forthcoming anthology, Anywhere but Earth, has an impressive line up of authors, then you haven’t been listening! Kim Westwood, whose story ‘By Any Other Name’ graces more than a few of ABE’s massive 700+ pages, is enjoying critical success with her second novel The Courier’s New Bicycle. Here’s [...]