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Janeen Webb Janeen Webb i(A21529 works by) (birth name: Janeen Pemberton)
Gender: Female
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1 Obituaries Bob Schwager , Janeen Webb , 2023 single work column
— Appears in: Locus , June vol. 90 no. 6 2023; (p. 77)
1 The Medici Stiletto Janeen Webb , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Caped Fear : Superhuman Horror Stories 2022; (p. 215-232)
1 y separately published work icon City of the Sun Trilogy Janeen Webb , Andrew Enstice , Gold Coast : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2021- 22981763 2021 series - author novel
1 y separately published work icon The Five Star Republic Janeen Webb , Andrew Enstice , Gold Coast : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2021 22981548 2021 single work novel science fiction

'The date is 1854. The place is the Australian goldfields in the British colony of Victoria-the richest prize on earth. The story begins with a stockade. The flag of independence is unfurled. Men driven beyond endurance take arms against British redcoats. At their forefront are two hundred Colt-wielding Americans, the California Rangers, led by the charismatic and idealistic Captain James McGill.

'The stockade falls. The Rangers are scattered. But from the ashes will rise a new revolution-a revolution powered by the sun. And this one will not fail.

'In the 19th century, just how close did we come to a world run on solar power? The Five Star Republic is history with a twist, the story of a world that might easily have been-the future you’ll wish we’d had.'

Source : publisher's blurb

1 y separately published work icon The Gold-Jade Dragon Janeen Webb , Harrogate : PS Publishing , 2020 20744733 2020 single work novel fantasy

'Meet the shapeshifting dragons of Hong Kong. Adept at passing for human, they are the kind of dragons you'd find at a Gatsby party—charming, sophisticated, glamorous, outrageously wealthy—and utterly ruthless.

'Nothing, it seems, can challenge their privileged lives—until Lady Feng leaves one of her eggs to be raised by human foster parents in a remote mountain village.

'The dragon child hatches. Born with dragon power, raised with human emotion, this child is trouble. And his powers are growing ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Afterwards Janeen Webb , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Grieve : Stories and Poems about Grief and Loss: Volume Seven 2019;
1 Apostles of Mercy Janeen Webb , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: War of the Worlds : Battleground Australia 2019;

In Apostles of Mercy, 'suspense is created by crosscutting between deluded religious zealots and a group o arrogant colonialists, who both encounter an injured Martian and deal with in their own foolish ways. Will the colonialists get a taste of their own medicine by this new superseding invading force? Or will the zealots be fooled by a new god to worship?'

Source: Foreword.

1 1 y separately published work icon The Dragon's Child Janeen Webb , Harrogate : PS Publishing , 2018 15691048 2018 single work novella fantasy

'Meet the shapeshifting dragons of Hong Kong. Adept at passing for human, they are the kind of dragons you'd find at a Gatsby party—charming, sophisticated, glamorous, outrageously wealthy—and utterly ruthless.

'Nothing, it seems, can challenge their privileged lives—until Lady Feng leaves one of her eggs to be raised by human foster parents in a remote mountain village.

'The dragon child hatches. Born with dragon power, raised with human emotion, this child is trouble. And his powers are growing ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 A Pearl Beyond Price Janeen Webb , 2017 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Cthulhu Deep Down Under : Volume 1 2017;
1 Monkey Business Janeen Webb , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures 2017; (p. 159-182)

In an interview with publisher Ticonderoga, Janeen Webb noted that the story is about 'the escalating conflict between food security and bio diversity.'

Source: http://ticonderogapublications.com/web/index.php/our-books/195-ecopunk/418-ecopunk-a-minterview-with-janeen-webb (Sighted: 10/1/2018)

1 Fade to Grey Janeen Webb , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Dreaming in the Dark 2016; (p. 289-308)

'In the dull green corridors of the old hospital, the ghosts were twittering with excitement The new woman would be here soon. She could be the one. She had the skills they needed. She would help them - they just knew she would - if only she could be persuaded.' (Introduction)

1 A Wondrous Necessary Woman Janeen Webb , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Hear Me Roar 2015; (p. 69-86)
1 The Sculptor's Wife Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;
1 Full Moon in Virgo Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;
1 Skull Beach Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;
1 A Faust Films Production Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;
1 The Lion Hunt Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;
1 Velvet Green Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014;

'[A] modern girl with attitude accidentally summons a traditional trickster, Jack-in-the-Green, who entangles her in a deadly dangerous confrontation in the world beyond the wood.'

Source: Author's introduction.

1 Lady of the Swamp Janeen Webb , 2014 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Death at the Blue Elephant 2014; Cthulhu : Deep Down Under 2014; The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 2015;
1 y separately published work icon Death at the Blue Elephant Janeen Webb , Greenwood : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014 8700466 2014 selected work short story fantasy

'Death at the Blue Elephant is the first story collection by the respected and multiple award winning Australian writer and editor Janeen Webb. She is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Australian Aurealis Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ditmar Award. In her introduction to this book, Pamela Sargent describes these stories as evoking a "combination of suspenseful anticipation, nervous apprehension, and total absorption in something far removed from my own experience". Death at the Blue Elephant collects 18 incredible globe-spanning visions by the self-confessed 'inveterate traveller'. Five stories are original to this collection.' (Publication summary)

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