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Looking For Ben single work   short story   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Looking For Ben
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A steampunk recounting of the search for Ben Hall.

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Notes

  • Steampunk note: This story is described by its publishers as fitting within the steampunk style. It is also notable for its use of well-known features of nineteenth-century Australia, as well as its use of historical figures.

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    y separately published work icon The Never Never Land Mitchell Akhurst (editor), Phillip Berrie (editor), Ian McHugh (editor), Canberra : CSFG Publishing , 2015 9035669 2015 anthology short story science fiction

    'Australia has it own mythologies. Some of them were here long before Europeans arrived; some of them are yet to come. Steam-powered bushrangers. Restless penal colonies. Robotic mining operations. Fairy colonies in the gum trees and old ghosts in the laneways. Drought and fire and flood and new life struggling to emerge from the dust. These are the stories we tell ourselves and the stories we want to hide from.

    'Thirty new stories from some of Australia’s best-known speculative fiction writers and some of its newest.' (Publication summary)

         Canberra : CSFG Publishing , 2015     pg. 163-178
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