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'Maggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat, attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, she's flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull–Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power–she learns that she is history's first true time traveler, hunted by friend and foe to the end of time. The entire future of the cosmos will be reset by these terrifying events. The Judas Mandala introduced the terms "virtual reality" and "virtual matrix," anticipating Frank Tipler's influential Omega Point Theory, William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, and The Matrix ... A new Afterword describes the strange publishing history of this ground-breaking novel, and includes the full text of an omitted chapter.'
Source: ABR.
Notes
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Epigraph (Gateway ed.):
I am waiting for rain
I am waiting for it to rain
I want blood
scalps that made me into
a marriageable item a woman
who needs a man a transgressor
of the moral authority of
male supremacy, a prison is
only twenty years back time
machine, I need nobody but a sicilian revenge,
no triumph.KATE JENNINGS
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Fiction of the Future : Australian Science Fiction
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 128-140) 'According to Russell Blackford 'commercial science fiction is the most international of literary forms.' He observes that 'Australian SF continues to flourish, even if it trails heroic fantasy in mass-market appeal.' Australian SF writers although published internationally, with a dedicated fan followings in USA, UK and Europe, were overlooked for a very long time by Australian multinational publishers. The international editions had to be imported and were then distributed in Australia (Congreve and Marquardt 8). Blackford in his chapter throws light on the history of Australian SF and observes how Australian SF writers, with their concern for the future, achieved a powerful synthesis in form and content. The progress of Australian SF, maturity of style in the work of younger writers, and massive worldwide sales make Blackford optimistic as he asserts that 'the best Australian writers in the genre will be prominent players on the world stage.' (Editor's foreword xii-xiii) -
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Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/ Time Fiction
New Lambton
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Nimrod Publications
,
1998
Z422966
1998
single work
criticism
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Time Travel: How and Why To Do It
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 October 1990; (p. 9)
— Review of Striped Holes 1988 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Sorcerer's World 1970 single work novel -
Illusions of Infinity, Infinity of Illusion
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 123 1990; (p. 38-39)
— Review of Striped Holes 1988 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Sorcerer's World 1970 single work novel -
Stricken Sydney Remains Commercial
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 27-28 October 1990; (p. 5)
— Review of Salt 1990 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Striped Holes 1988 single work novel
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Stricken Sydney Remains Commercial
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 27-28 October 1990; (p. 5)
— Review of Salt 1990 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Striped Holes 1988 single work novel -
Illusions of Infinity, Infinity of Illusion
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 123 1990; (p. 38-39)
— Review of Striped Holes 1988 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Sorcerer's World 1970 single work novel -
Time Travel: How and Why To Do It
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 October 1990; (p. 9)
— Review of Striped Holes 1988 single work novel ; The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel ; Sorcerer's World 1970 single work novel -
The Artifice of Eternity
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 4 no. 3 (Issue 12) 1982; (p. 118-120)
— Review of The Judas Mandala 1982 single work novel -
The Fiction of the Future : Australian Science Fiction
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 128-140) 'According to Russell Blackford 'commercial science fiction is the most international of literary forms.' He observes that 'Australian SF continues to flourish, even if it trails heroic fantasy in mass-market appeal.' Australian SF writers although published internationally, with a dedicated fan followings in USA, UK and Europe, were overlooked for a very long time by Australian multinational publishers. The international editions had to be imported and were then distributed in Australia (Congreve and Marquardt 8). Blackford in his chapter throws light on the history of Australian SF and observes how Australian SF writers, with their concern for the future, achieved a powerful synthesis in form and content. The progress of Australian SF, maturity of style in the work of younger writers, and massive worldwide sales make Blackford optimistic as he asserts that 'the best Australian writers in the genre will be prominent players on the world stage.' (Editor's foreword xii-xiii) -
y
Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/ Time Fiction
New Lambton
:
Nimrod Publications
,
1998
Z422966
1998
single work
criticism
Awards
- 1984 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
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