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'We hope everyone who has landed on our pages over the past month has enjoyed our focus on women and science, and we welcome you to our next issue on Extinction. We initially shaped this theme around three novels released earlier this year – James Bradley’s Ghost Species Donna Mazza’s Fauna and Chris Flynn’s Mammoth (the subject of a conversation with Jess White to be uploaded next week) – which focus on de/extinction, whether through genetic engineering or voices from the past. These novels aren’t unusual in a country which has the highest rate of vertebrate mammal extinction in the world; what is interesting is that they have emerged in a year which has seen significant disruption to humans’ ecosystems. Perhaps fiction and Covid-19 might engender some empathy for the ways in which our fellow living creatures experience the devastating impact of humans.' (Introduction)
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- The Allotropes of Tini"Unbeknowst to him", single work poetry
- Monotremei"He must have been tired", single work poetry
- Perigee-Syzygy Mooni"supermoon—", single work poetry
- Do Not Feed the Monkeys!!!, single work short story
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Scorch,
single work
essay
'Summer in Melbourne in the 1980s. It seemed like I was always peeling the back of my legs off sticky seats—the orange plastic chairs at school or the vinyl of the car, where turning on the ‘air-conditioning’ was using two hands to pull down a reluctant window. I spent years of my life in rooms known as ‘portables,’ some of which didn’t even have fans. The slides in the schoolground burned the flesh on the back of my young legs. Razz and cola Sunnyboys from the school canteen came close to fracturing my emerging adult teeth'
- How We Write the Future (Panel), Rose Michael (interviewer), Deanne Sheldon-Collins (interviewer), single work interview
- Inhabiting the Tesseracti"Between our adjacent rooms the voile twitches liminal, exposes the", single work poetry
- States of Matteri"So we make goo to prove", single work poetry
- Aotearoai"totara, tuatara, tomate", single work poetry
- Under the Microscope, sequence poetry
- The Christmas Cruisei"William J Dakin meets Isobel and her sister", single work poetry
- It Was All a Matter of Practicei"Professor Dakin invites his secretary, Isobel,", single work poetry
- Legacyi"Who can’t love the wafting nudibranchs,", single work poetry
- Blue-Shifti"She’s tidying the grandkids’ room", single work poetry
- Cloudy Question Timei"Stratus in ragged shreds", single work poetry
- Space Chimps (i) Property of Holloman Aerospace Medicali"The", single work poetry
- Space Chimps (ii) Enosi"Remember your training, man.", single work poetry
- [50] Tini"I turn to pick up four empty cans,", single work poetry
- [11] Sodiumi"a metal so light it floats", single work poetry
- [82] Leadi"Inorganic chemistry lab. A rack of test tubes", single work poetry
