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'The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot, brain child of Australian writer Ben Peek, has been taking place periodically since 2005, when Ben spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene. Since then, it’s grown every time, now taking a team of interviewers working together to accomplish!
'This site is designed to try to prevent the loss of Snapshots due to the ephemeral nature of the internet, and will archive (with permission from the original bloggers) as much of the previous Snapshots as possible, making it a true record of the journey of Australian Spec Fic.'
Source: SF Snapshot.
Notes
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Interviewers have included the following: Ben Peek, Alex Pierce, Alisa Krasnostein, Ben Payne, David McDonald, Elanor Matton-Johnson, Helen Merrick, Helen Stubbs, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung, Kaaron Warren, Katharine Stubbs, Kathryn Linge, Nick Evans, Rachel Holknerm, Rosie Clark, Sean Wright, Stephanie Gunn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tehani Wessely, and Tsana Dolichva.
Contents
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The 2005 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction, Writers, Editors, Publishers,
Ben Peek
(interviewer),
anthology
interview
'This is a collection of forty-three interviews conducted over a one week period in April, 2005 with editors, popular fantasy authors, new authors, small press publishers, authors with short story collections, editors at ezines, and small press novelists.'
From interviewer's introduction. -
The 2007 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction,
Tansy Rayner Roberts
(interviewer),
Alisa Krasnostein
(interviewer),
Kathryn Linge
(interviewer),
Ben Payne
(interviewer),
Kaaron Warren
(interviewer),
Alexandra Pierce
(interviewer),
anthology
interview
Includes interviews with 84 following authors, editors, publishers, and artists.
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The 2010 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction,
Alisa Krasnostein
(interviewer),
Kathryn Linge
(interviewer),
Alexandra Pierce
(interviewer),
Tansy Rayner Roberts
(interviewer),
Rachel Holkner
(interviewer),
Tehani Croft
(interviewer),
anthology
interview
'In February 2010 – in the lead up to Aussiecon 4, Australia’s fourth hosting of Worldcon, the international science fiction convention which also boasts the Hugo Awards – six interviewers, including myself, decided it was a great time to Snapshot again. In the space of a week, we managed to publish 90 interviews, covering internationally reknown authors, artists and editors including Margo Lanagan, Sean Williams, Jonathan Strahan and Nick Stathopoulos alongside up-and-coming writers such as Thoraiya Dyer, Felicity Dowker and Jason Fischer, as well as book bloggers, reviewers, publishers and commentators relevant in the specfic scene.'
Source: Australian SF Snapshot Project.
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The 2012 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction,
Alisa Krasnostein
(interviewer),
Kathryn Linge
(interviewer),
David McDonald
(interviewer),
Helen Merrick
(interviewer),
Ian Mond
(interviewer),
Jason Nahrung
(interviewer),
Alexandra Pierce
(interviewer),
Tansy Rayner Roberts
(interviewer),
Sean Wright
(interviewer),
Tehani Croft
(interviewer),
anthology
interview
'The Aussie Spec Fic Snapshot has taken place three times over the past eight years. In 2005, Ben Peek spent a frantic week interviewing 43 people in the Australian spec fic scene, and since then, it’s grown every time, now taking a team of interviewers working together to accomplish! In the lead up to Continuum 8 in Melbourne, this team, consisting of Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tehani Wessely and Sean Wright, blogged interviews for Snapshot 2012.'
Source: Australian SF Snapshot Project.
- The 2016 Snapshot : Australian Speculative Fiction, anthology interview