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 Fiction The Outcast: An Anthology of Exiles and StrangersJuly 2007
Editor Nicole Murphy tells us in her introduction that the theme for The Outcast was suggested by well-known Australian author Maxine McArthur, whose then-unpublished manuscript Time Future won the George Turner Prize in 1999.  Nova SwingApril 2007
On Saudade, anything is possible. Find yourself a new body, a new self. Buy a vintage Cadillac; be a vintage Cadillac. Have your flowers modified to smell of chocolate, or remodel your home to resemble a lighthouse.  Judas UnchainedApril 2007
Like Kevin Costner’s tendency to shoot long films, it seems British science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton can only produce big, fat novels. Hamilton’s latest series, The Commonwealth Saga, comprises Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, and when combined, the page count of both books exceeds 2,200. With such a large canvas to work with, Hamilton paints an incredibly vast and vivid world.  The Night of the TriffidsApril 2007
John Wyndham’s work has had a mixed reception over the decades: adored by the general reader, treated with cool disdain by the science fiction cognoscenti.  K-MachinesSeptember 2006
K-Machines is a sequel to Godplayers (2005), with which it forms a complete diptych. They develop an appealing vision of how a high-technology future might turn out, if everything goes as well as we can hope.  Pushing IceSeptember 2006
Alastair Reynolds has effortlessly produced space operas with a gothic bent and cooler-than cool protagonists. In Pushing Ice, Reynolds tones down the space battles for an intelligent novel of man's future among the stars.  The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & FantasyJune 2006
A review of Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, the latest edition of the book series highlighting the notable and worthy in science fiction and fantasy in Australia.  Century RainJune 2006
Any novel combining wormhole theory, noir, World War II and lots of jazz hardly sounds like typical science fiction. But science fiction Century Rain is - and one of the most charming offerings available.  Mind's EyeApril 2006
In his new novel, author McAuley takes on the subject of entoptic images, their possible effects on the nervous system and how the unscrupulous might use them to develop a system of mind control. Such images are found among the art of the Palaeolithic period, and can trigger the neural system to produce phosphenes and form constants - patterns that can be seen with the eyes closed.  A Tour Guide in Utopia: StoriesFebruary 2006
Lucy Sussex is one of Australia's most accomplished writers of science fiction and fantasy, but her work can't be ascribed to any particular category. Some of her best ghost stories are also investigative pieces of science writing; some of her best science fiction is romantic comedy.  Dazzling, million-idea science fictionDecember 2005
Science fiction books can be divided into two categories: those that tell of one important change that might happen to our world, and those that try to drag in everything that might ever happen to our world. Godplayers is among the latter.  OlymposDecember 2005
In Olympos, Dan Simmons returns to the ambitious vision of the future he presented in Ilium, a tale that loosely followed Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, adding elements from The Tempest and hard science fiction. Olympos throws us right into the thick of things, and where the first book broadly followed the events of The Iliad, events in this tome set their own course.  Veniss UndergroundDecember 2005
We are in Earth's distant future. Inside the multi-levelled metropolis of Veniss, genetics and biotechnology are the dominant scientific disciplines, with artists creating life forms that serve for both manual labour and recreation.  Geodesica AscentNovember 2005
Adelaide's Sean Williams and Shane Dix impressed the hardcore science fiction world with their Orphans Of The Earth trilogy and the Evergence series. True to form, Geodesica Ascent is the first in a new series - although of perhaps just two novels this time.  RomanitasOctober 2005
Romanitas is the first book of a projected trilogy set in a world where the Roman Empire was not destroyed in the 5th century by barbarians, but grew and thrived to the present day. 
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