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Jason Franks Jason Franks i(A140038 works by) (a.k.a. Jason Morris Franks)
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South Africa,
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Southern Africa, Africa, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Jason Franks has written comics, prose, and source code. His family moved to Australia when he was ten years old. He lived in Florida in the United States for five years before returning to Melbourne. In 2010, he was also working as a software engineer.

His first novel, Bloody Waters, was published in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for best horror novel. He has also published a number of short stories set in the same universe. It was followed by a second novel, Faerie Apocalypse, in 2018. His graphic novels, including The Sixsmiths, a limited-issue series about a family of suburban Satanists, have been shortlisted for Aurealis and Ledge Awards.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Frankenstein Monstrance Australia : IPI Comics , 2022-2025 27752552 2022 series - author graphic novel Graphic novel series based on the idea that Victor Frankenstein is still alive, and has a 200-year start on robotics and AI.
2023 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel for the preview issue (issue 1).
y separately published work icon X-Dimensional Assassin Zai Through the Unfolded Earth Melbourne : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2022 26225176 2022 single work novel fantasy

'Zai is an international assassin who’s in it for the travel. So, when his new agency starts to send him on assignment to places that do not exist, it’s a dream come true.

'Crooked accountants, faerie industrialists, hero scientists, down-at-heels gods, secret police chiefs. A hidden continent colonised by refugees from sunken Atlantis, a secret space station, an aerostatic city-state, a post-apocalyptic Faerie Land, a Britain that has taken the hardest Brexit of all.

'Whoever you are, and wherever you hide, X-Dimensional Assassin Zai will find you… but not until he’s taken some happy snaps and tried the local cuisine.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2023 nominated Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
y separately published work icon Faerie Apocalypse Victoria : IFWG Publishing Inc , 2018 12791190 2018 single work novel fantasy

'Over the centuries the Faerie Realms have drifted away from the mortal world. But for some, the Doors will open. For some, there is a Way to travel there, if they want it badly enough. If they dream it hard enough. In this era, only lovers, poets, and madmen can access the Realms of the Land—and for good reason. A succession of mortals travel to Faerie: a veteran seeking beauty; a magus seeking power; an urchin seeking his wayward father; an engineer seeking meaning. These mortals bring the horrors of our age to the Land, and the Folk who live there respond in kind.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2019 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
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