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Simon Petrie Simon Petrie i(A107335 works by)
Born: Established:
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Of Why the Sea Simon Petrie , 2024 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , February 2024;
1 1 y separately published work icon Tremendously Inconveniencing Great Many Photons Simon Petrie , Australia : Simon Petrie , 2022 25914127 2022 single work novel science fiction
1 Mouthbreathers Simon Petrie , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Dimension6 , no. 20 2020;
1 This Guy's the Limit Simon Petrie , 2018 single work novella science fiction
— Appears in: Murder on the Zenith Express : The Gordon Mamon Collection 2018;
1 y separately published work icon Murder on the Zenith Express : The Gordon Mamon Collection Simon Petrie , Australia : Simon Petrie , 2018 19838386 2018 collected work short story science fiction

'Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift. The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift.

'All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is to be able to finish his crossword in piece. But people keep inconsiderately dying of unnatural causes during their stay aboard his lift-module on the Skyward space elevator.

'Welcome to Module 270, an orbit-transiting hotel with a suspiciously high body count.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)
1 On the Consequences of Clinically-Inhibited Maturation in the Common Sydney Octopus Simon Petrie , Edwina Harvey , 2018 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: A Hand of Knaves 2018; (p. 223-230)
1 1 y separately published work icon Wide Brown Land : Stories of Titan Simon Petrie , Matraville : Peggy Bright Books , 2018 15587192 2018 selected work short story

A collection of science-fiction short stories set on Titan, a moon of Saturn.
1 y separately published work icon 80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess Simon Petrie , Australia : Simon Petrie , 2018 14901115 2018 selected work short story

'Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed to take hold in eight billion years.

'80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess is a collection of SF short fiction, sometimes humorous and sometimes deadly serious, by NZ-born Australian writer Simon Petrie.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Good Intentions Simon Petrie , 2017 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , November no. 232 2017;
1 y separately published work icon Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body Simon Petrie , Maroubra : Peggy Bright Books , 2017 12896769 2017 single work novella science fiction detective

'Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why.

'This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 November 31st is World Peace Day Simon Petrie , 2017 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Dimension6 , no. 11 2017; Dimension6 : Annual Collection 2017 2017;
1 All the Colours of the Tomato Simon Petrie , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Dimension6 , no. 9 2016;

'Out among the stars we need to learn to see with different eyes.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 Jumping to Conclusions Simon Petrie , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , October no. 219 2016;
1 Trike Race Edwina Harvey , Simon Petrie , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Never Never Land 2015; (p. 273-284)
1 Like a Boojum Simon Petrie , 2015 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , February no. 77 2015; Xeno-biologists search for sentient life on a distant planet.
1 Insecure Alternation Simon Petrie , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , February no. 200 2015;
1 At the Dark Matter Zoo Simon Petrie , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Stars Like Sand : Australian Speculative Poetry 2014; (p. 57)
1 y separately published work icon Use Only as Directed Edwina Harvey (editor), Simon Petrie (editor), Maroubra : Peggy Bright Books , 2014 8364301 2014 anthology short story
1 News Just To Hand Simon Petrie , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , December no. 198 2014;
1 y separately published work icon Difficult Second Album : More Stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out of Hell Simon Petrie , Edwina Harvey (editor), Matraville : Peggy Bright Books , 2014 8047227 2014 selected work short story science fiction fantasy

'Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out Of Hell is a collection of speculative fiction, ranging from the deadly serious to the frankly frivolous, from the unusual mind of Simon Petrie.

'Difficult Second Album includes several previously-released favourites, a healthy selection of new stories including a new Gordon Mamon space-elevator murder mystery novella, and the notorious ‘Suckers for Love’.' (Publication summary)
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