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When the world is brought to the mercy of a futuristically mechanised Chinese army fired by the spirit of Genghis Khan, salvation comes from Ella Pritchard, a young Sydney woman with a bent for the supernatural.
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Steampunk note : This story bears many of the features of what would become magical steampunk, particularly the magically powered army of Chinese automatons. However, its publication in 1903 (well before steampunk emerged as a recognisable field) classifies it as proto-steampunk.
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Gendering of Disaster : Cities and City Manhood in Joyce Vincent's The Celestial Hand
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , March vol. 41 no. 1 2010; (p. 41-56)'Striving to convince readers that an invasion was no mere literary license, the Australian invasion novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called upon a gallery of foreign and internal villains. Of the latter, the (mostly) male authors frequently identified the manhood of Australia's cities as a weak link that could fatally undermine the young nation. This article, though, will illuminate the work of another invasion novelist, Joyce Vincent, to show that this concern about the men of the city had more to do with the uncertainties of gender than it did with the defence of White Australia.' (p. 41)
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Invasion
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest 1904 single work novel -
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1903
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 November vol. 24 no. 1239 1903; (p. 2)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel
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Invasion
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 124-125)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel ; The Awakening 1937 single work novel ; The Australian Crisis 1908 single work novel ; The Coloured Conquest 1904 single work novel -
Untitled
1903
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 November vol. 24 no. 1239 1903; (p. 2)
— Review of The Celestial Hand : A Sensational Story 1903 single work novel -
Gendering of Disaster : Cities and City Manhood in Joyce Vincent's The Celestial Hand
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , March vol. 41 no. 1 2010; (p. 41-56)'Striving to convince readers that an invasion was no mere literary license, the Australian invasion novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called upon a gallery of foreign and internal villains. Of the latter, the (mostly) male authors frequently identified the manhood of Australia's cities as a weak link that could fatally undermine the young nation. This article, though, will illuminate the work of another invasion novelist, Joyce Vincent, to show that this concern about the men of the city had more to do with the uncertainties of gender than it did with the defence of White Australia.' (p. 41)
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