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11y The Female Factory Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8141553 2015 selected work short story
'In The Female Factory, procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford.
'Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. A quirk of genetics allows lucky surrogates to carry multiple eggs, to control when they are fertilised, and by whom—but corporations market and sell the offspring. The souls of lost embryos are never wasted; captured in software, they give electronics their voice. Spirits born into the wrong bodies can brave the charged waters of a hidden billabong, and change their fate. Industrious orphans learn to manipulate scientific advances, creating mothers of their own choosing.
'From Australia’s near-future all the way back in time to its convict past, these stories spin and sever the ties between parents and children.' (Publication summary)
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12y Cherry Crow Children : A Twelve Planets Collection Alisa Krasnostein (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 8432273 2015 selected work short story
'Tulliæn spans a fractured mountaintop, where the locals lie and the tourists come to die. Try the honey.
'Briskwater crouches deep in the shadow of a dam wall. Ignore the weight of the water hanging overhead, and the little dead girl wandering the streets. Off with you, while you still can.
'In Haverny Wood the birds drink blood, the dogs trade their coughings for corpses, the lost children carve up their bodies to run with the crows, and the townsfolk stitch silence into their spleens. You mustn't talk so wild.
'The desert-locked outpost of Boundary boasts the famed manufacturers of flawless timepieces; those who would learn the trade must offer up their eyes as starting materials. Look to your pride: it will eat you alive.
'Sooner or later, in every community, fate demands its dues — and the currency is blood.' (Publication summary)
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2015 - y Sprawl Alisa Krasnostein (editor), Amanda Rainey , (cover artist), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2010 Z1738651 2010 anthology short story science fiction 'A glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns.' - from bookstore catalogue Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2010
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Glitter Rose
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2010
Z1873006
2010
selected work
short story
science fiction
'The Glitter Rose Collection features five short stories by Marianne de Pierres - four previously published and one new story. Each copy of this limited edition print run is signed and presented in a beautiful hardbound cover, with internal black and white illustrations.
The Glitter Rose stories are set against the background of Carmine Island (an island reminiscent of Stradbroke Island, Queensland) where a decade ago spores from deep in the ocean blew in, by a freak of nature, and settled on the island. These spores bring fierce allergies to the inhabitants of the island. And maybe other, more sinister effects. As we follow Tinashi's journey of moving to and settling into island life, we get a clearer picture of just what is happening on Carmine Island.
Glitter Rose is named after the glitter rose dusks that happen at certain tides on the island - when the last of sunset has fallen, a strange phosphorescence can be seen on the sands of the beaches. Colourless at first, it rapidly changes to a "carpet of tiny, shining, rose-coloured grains" as the sky darkens.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Nightsiders
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2011
Z1768743
2011
selected work
short story
young adult
science fiction
'In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia's capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late '30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone.
A few thousand obstinate and independent souls cling to the city and to the southern towns. Living mostly by night to endure the fierce temperatures, they are creating a new culture in defiance of official expectations. A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.' -- From the publisher's website.
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2011 - y Love and Romanpunk Alisa Krasnostein (editor), Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2011 Z1885836 2011 selected work short story fantasy Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2011
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Thief of Lives : A Twelve Planets Collection
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2011
7051564
2011
selected work
short story
fantasy
'Why are certain subjects so difficult to talk about? What is justice? Why do writers think that other people’s lives are fair game? And what do we really know about the first chemist?
'A story about history, women, science (and also the demonic); a crime story, based upon a true crime; a realist satire of the supposedly sex-savvy; and a story exploring lies, and the space between the real and the unreal. Welcome to the worlds of Lucy Sussex, and to her many varied modes.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2011 -
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Bad Power
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2012
Z1868709
2012
selected work
short story
fantasy
'From Crawford Award nominee Deborah Biancotti comes this sinister short story suite, a pocketbook police procedural, set in a world where the victories are only relative, and the defeats are absolute. Bad Power celebrates the worst kind of powers both supernatural and otherwise, in the interlinked tales of five people - and how far they'll go.' (Publisher's blurb)
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2012 -
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Caution : Contains Small Parts : A Twelve Planets Collection
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2013
6086817
2013
selected work
short story
'Caution: Contains Small Parts is an intimate, unsettling collection from award-winning author Kirstyn McDermott.
'A creepy wooden dog that refuses to play dead.
'A gifted crisis counsellor and the mysterious, melancholy girl she cannot seem to reach.
'A once-successful fantasy author whose life has become a horror story – now with added unicorns.
'An isolated woman whose obsession with sex dolls takes a harrowing, unexpected turn.
'Four stories that will haunt you long after their final pages are turned.' (Publisher's blurb)
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2013 -
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Secret Lives of Books
Yokine
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Twelfth Planet Press
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2014
7191443
2014
selected work
short story
science fiction
'Secret Lives of Books is the much anticipated all new original collection of short stories from one of Australia’s most respected and loved science fiction writers. Winner of the Chandler Award for outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction, Rosaleen Love’s previous collections Total Devotion Machine and Evolution Annie were published by the Women’s Press alongside classic works by Joanna Russ, Suzy McKee Charnas and Octavia Butler.' (Publication summary)
Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2014