Archiving Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (short stories)

[girliejones]

I've been trying to collate some information for some media kits for Twelfth Planet Press and was hunting around for resource material. Thanks to responders on Twitter, I got started on making the following list. I'm particularly interested in the number of female Australian authors who have been collected. I started making a list and I noticed it

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[nyssa_p]

WOW! That is an insanely big difference!

And there's also Make Believe for Terry.

Apart from your lovely self, Russ is also doing a few female collections this year with Kaaron and Angela. I'm also surprised Cat doesn't have one, I would so buy it if she did ^_^ I heard her story, The Bride Price, on TISF podcast - just awesome Cat being awesome!...*looks up* Oh that's right, she is getting one, done by Orb publications..Hrm wonder who they are *snoops on Google*

[nyssa_p]

Okay, now I feel like an idiot because I didn't know who Orb was - I remember now! Doh >

[girliejones]

:)

Thanks for addition of Make Believe

[girliejones]

Cat does have one coming out. I'm not including forthcoming collections as they haven't occurred yet. And because an announcement I will make later in the year will skew things :P

[bluetyson]

Dowling has definitely had some fancy limited editions. So has Egan, of the Subterranean type variety.

I think Harding's book is called 'Ghostwriting'.

[girliejones]

Ahh cool. I'll hunt around Sub Press for those.

I'll add Ghostwriting as the title - thanks.

[curufea]

I hope you're using Trove for some of this :)

[girliejones]

I did get sent there but found it clunky to use. And I'm not sure how much of this information is actually archived.

[curufea]

Hmm, it shouldn't be - you may have to search for just books though, rather than the whole gamut of media types.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/book

Specifically though, you may way to look at the people data
http://trove.nla.gov.au/people
To do author searches, it's primarily a name authority with links to their works.

[girliejones]

but neither seem particularly easy to use when searching broader than that - if i don't know the name but I know the type of book - single author collections of short stories. Even searching "australian content" pulls up lots of white noise.

[punkrocker1991]

Some more additions:

Isobel Carmody, Green Monkey Dreams (1995)

Carmel Bird:
Births, Deaths and Marriages (1983)
The Woodpecker Toy Fact and Other Stories (1987)
The Common Rat (1993)
Automatic Teller (1996)

Christine Harris:
Outer Face (1992)
Buried Secrets (1993)
Widdershins (aka Party Animals) (1995)
Fortune Cookies (1998)
Warped (2000)

Janet Turner Hospital:
Dislocations (1986)
Isobars (1990)
Collected Stories (1995)
North of Nowhere, South of Loss (2003)

I'm sure I'm missing some out, too, I think there was one or two self-published collections by Noel Cladingboel(?sp), and a really bad collection of horror stories by John Michael Howson in the late 90s.

[girliejones]

I just found at least one Neil Cladingboel, its possibly two with slightly different titles. And I can't decide if I should put self published in this list.

Thanks for the additions above.

[punkrocker1991]

You've got Epiphanies of Blood on there.

[girliejones]

True.

[punkrocker1991]

Geoffrey Maloney, Six Silly Stories (2008)

[girliejones]

Thanks! And we saw that at LSS.