| Russell Blackford |
was one of the founders of Australian Science
Fiction Review (second series), has published one
fantasy novel and several stories, and is a co-author of Strange
Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction. He
writes for Australian intellectual magazines such as Quadrant,
and was co-editor of the special Aussiecon 3 Australian issue of
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction.
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| Caroline Flynn |
was born in Sydney before WW II, married at 18 and
raised five sons, and studied Speculative Fiction with Doris
Lessing and the language of science fiction at (now) Charles
Sturt University (Bathurst, NSW). She has returned to
Australia after eight years of teaching conversational English
in Japan. |
| Marian Foster |
came to Western Australia in the late sixties from
England, after living in South Africa and New Zealand for short
periods. She has grown to prefer fantasy to science
fiction, being addicted to Anne McCaffrey's work, and is
interested in the particular voice of Australian speculative
writing. |
| Richard Harland |
is the author of Superstructualism: The
Philosophy of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
and Beyond Superstructualism. Once a Lecturer in the
English Department at the University of Wollongong, he is now a
full-time writer, known for his novels about the futuristic
investigators Eddon and Vail - The Dark Edge, Taken by Force and
Hidden from View - and his new children's fantasy - Ferren
and the Angel. |
| Van Ikin |
is the editor/publisher of Science Fiction,
a co-author of Strange Constellations: A History of
Australian Science Fiction, and since 1984 has been the
regular SF/Fantasy reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| Lech Keller |
is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics
and the author of books on computer programming and on the
effects of the current transformation in Central-Eastern
Europe. At present he is a PhD candidate at Monash
University, where he is finishing a dissertation on
Stanislaw Lem as a political writer. |
| Helen Merrick |
co-edited Women of Other Worlds with Tess
Williams. Among her research interests are the history of
feminist sf criticism, the changing trends in feminist utopian
visions and the dialogue between feminist theory and sf,
especially in feminist critiques of science and technology. |
| Peter McNamara |
founded Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine
(1985-87) and the Aphelion Publications (1990 - 97) together
with Mariann McNamara. With Margaret Winch he was
co-editor of the Australian SF anthology Alien Shores
(1994) and has for many years been a presenter on Adelaide
radio's 5EBI FM "Science Fiction review" programme. |
| Bruce Shaw |
holds a doctorate in Anthropology and is half-way
through a second PhD thesis on the animal fable in pre-and SF,
informed by Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the
carnivalesque. He has taught Aboriginal history at the
Notre Dame University Australia (in Fremantle) and conducted
research for an Aboriginal land council. |
| Tess Williams |
author of Map of Power and Sea as Mirror,
as well as many short stories and articles. |
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