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- Colouring the Captains, single work short story science fiction (p. 2-45)
- The Only Bird in Her Name, single work short story science fiction (p. 46-68)
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The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees,
single work
short story
science fiction
In a fictional future where spiritual and religious culture is the norm, robots have been outlawed with great prejudice for being able to see the spiritual world. Captain Tom comes across an antique robot harbored by his elderly friend, who needs Tom's help to reach a stone of spiritual significance.
- What We Did to the Tyger, single work short story science fiction (p. 100-116)
- Spinners, single work short story science fiction (p. 118-141)
- So Much for the Burning Queen, single work short story science fiction (p. 142-160)
- Mirage Diver, single work short story science fiction (p. 162-189)
- Time of the Star, single work short story science fiction (p. 190-228)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Constructing a Postcolonial Zone : The Example of Australia
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Stories about Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth 2013;'In Australia, where the oppression of native peoples and cultures was, if anything, even more severe than in North America, it has been harder to create contact zones, and, as discussed in chapter 5, attempts by white writers such as Patricia Wrightson to blend their traditions with those of indigenous Australians have been met with suspicion or hostility. Non-Aboriginal writers from Australia have generated such a collection of ignorant, patronizing, and demeaning texts about Aborigines that some of the latter want to call a halt to any further attempts. As the novelist Melissa Lucashenko says, "Who asked you to write about Aboriginal people? If it wasn't Aboriginal people themselves, I suggest you go away and look at your own lives instead of ours. We are tired of being the freak show of Australian popular culture" (quoted in Heiss 10). Whereas American writers often treated native cultures as noble, if doomed, and Indian characters as heroic adversaries or guides to the white hero (as in James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking series), early depictions of Aboriginal people at best treat them as part of the landscape and at worst—and there is a pretty clear worst in Austyn Granville lost-world romance The Fallen Race (1892)—as subhuman.' (Introduction)
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Utopian Elements in Terry Dowling's Tom Rynosseros Fictions
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cultural History , no. 23 2004; (p. 137-146) -
SFfiles
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 June 2003; (p. 7)
— Review of Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story -
The Ikin Interviews: Terry Dowling
Van Ikin
(interviewer),
2002
single work
interview
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 108-116) -
When Was the Last Time You Noticed the Shape of the Light-Switch in Your Bedroom? A Profile of Terry Dowling
Gavin Bertram
(interviewer),
1996
single work
interview
biography
criticism
— Appears in: Sirius , March no. 11 1996; (p. 4-7)
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SFfiles
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 21 June 2003; (p. 7)
— Review of Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story -
The Arena : Rynosseros
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 11 no. 1 (Issue 31) 1991; (p. 15-26)
— Review of Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story -
Childhood Through a Colourless Camera
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 1990; (p. rev 5)
— Review of The Factory 1990 single work novel ; Matinee 1990 single work novel ; Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story -
Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 16 June 1990; (p. 8)
— Review of Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story ; Reaching Tin River 1990 single work novel -
Space Opera a Virtuoso Debut
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 12 August 1990; (p. 35)
— Review of Rynosseros 1990 selected work short story -
The Ikin Interviews: Terry Dowling
Van Ikin
(interviewer),
2002
single work
interview
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 30 2002; (p. 108-116) -
Utopian Elements in Terry Dowling's Tom Rynosseros Fictions
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Cultural History , no. 23 2004; (p. 137-146) -
The Hero in Stasis : An Examination of the Character Tom Tyson, in Terry Dowling's Rynosseros, in Comparison with the Mythic Heroic Pattern
1991
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Summer no. 4 1991; (p. 85-95) Argues that basic themes of the archetypal characteristics of 'heroes' are omitted in Terry Dowling's character, Tom Tyson, captain of the 'sandship,' Rynosseros. -
When Was the Last Time You Noticed the Shape of the Light-Switch in Your Bedroom? A Profile of Terry Dowling
Gavin Bertram
(interviewer),
1996
single work
interview
biography
criticism
— Appears in: Sirius , March no. 11 1996; (p. 4-7) -
Constructing a Postcolonial Zone : The Example of Australia
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Stories about Stories : Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth 2013;'In Australia, where the oppression of native peoples and cultures was, if anything, even more severe than in North America, it has been harder to create contact zones, and, as discussed in chapter 5, attempts by white writers such as Patricia Wrightson to blend their traditions with those of indigenous Australians have been met with suspicion or hostility. Non-Aboriginal writers from Australia have generated such a collection of ignorant, patronizing, and demeaning texts about Aborigines that some of the latter want to call a halt to any further attempts. As the novelist Melissa Lucashenko says, "Who asked you to write about Aboriginal people? If it wasn't Aboriginal people themselves, I suggest you go away and look at your own lives instead of ours. We are tired of being the freak show of Australian popular culture" (quoted in Heiss 10). Whereas American writers often treated native cultures as noble, if doomed, and Indian characters as heroic adversaries or guides to the white hero (as in James Fenimore Cooper Leatherstocking series), early depictions of Aboriginal people at best treat them as part of the landscape and at worst—and there is a pretty clear worst in Austyn Granville lost-world romance The Fallen Race (1892)—as subhuman.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 1991 winner Ditmar Awards — Best Novel