Science Fiction / Australian, Pacific, Oceanian and Polynesian literature

A Shadow on the Glass

The View from the Mirror #1

by Ian Irvine – ORBIT (September 26, 2009)

With this stunning and original debut, Ian Irvine begins the saga of The View from the Mirror, a brilliant epic fantasy that rivals the works of Robert Jordan and J. V. Jones. "Once there were three worlds,...

Souls in the Great Machine

Greatwinter #1

by Sean Mcmullen – Tor Books (December 14, 2002)

Souls in the Great Machine is the first volume of Sean McMullen's brilliant future history of the world of Greatwinter.

The great Calculor of Libris was forced to watch as Overmayor Zarvora had four of its...

Repo Virtual

by Corey J. White – Tordotcom (April 20, 2020)

Corey J. White's debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story.

An Amazon and Kobo Best Book of April!

The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll...

The Miocene Arrow

Greatwinter #3

by Sean Mcmullen – Tor Books (August 18, 2000)

Sean McMullen is one of the hottest new writers working today. He is a three-time winner of the Ditmar Award in his native Australia, and has also won that country's Aurealis Award. His last novel, Souls in...

The Centurion's Empire

by Sean Mcmullen – Tor Science Fiction (April 30, 1999)

In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman Centurion Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just...

Eyes of the Calculor

Greatwinter #2

by Sean Mcmullen – Tor Books (December 06, 2003)

In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two thousand years in the future, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, there is no electricity, fueled engines are banned by every major religion...

The Warming

by Craig Ensor – Impact Press (July 01, 2019)

‘The sun was so brutal, so twisted in its brutality, it seemed to grip us by the neck and push us down into the drowning waters. And, in the end, that was our choice: by water ? or by sun.’

The year is 2221...

Adrift in the Noösphere: Science Fiction Stories

by Damien Broderick & Rich Horton – Wildside Press (August 28, 2012)

In his Foreword, Rich Horton says: "First rate stories..."Time Considered as a Series of Thermite Burns in No Particular Order" is a clever and very funny time travel romp; "The Beancounter's Cat" is set in...

Human's Burden

by Damien Broderick & Rory Barnes – Wildside Press (January 01, 2011)

Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth...

Space Junk

by Rory Barnes – Wildside Press (January 01, 2011)

arth, the fantasy: the green, storied world where mankind originated. Earth, the reality: the junk planet, a dirty, dangerous place filled with detention camps, gangs and gangsters, flop houses, body parts factories,...

I Only Killed Him Once

Ray Electromatic Mysteries #3

by Adam Christopher – Tor Books (July 09, 2018)

A blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective, I Only Killed Him Once, a stand-alone installment in Adam Christopher's Ray Electromatic mystery series.

Another Hollywood night,...

Killing Is My Business

Ray Electromatic Mysteries #2

by Adam Christopher – Tor Books (July 24, 2017)

"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" ?John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author

Another golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape and assignment for intrepid PI-turned-hitman?and...

Standard Hollywood Depravity

by Adam Christopher – Tordotcom (March 06, 2017)

Includes a speical bonus novella Brisk Money by Adam Christopher

The moment Raymond Electromatic set eyes on her, he knew she was the dame marked in his optics, the woman that his boss had warned him about.

Honey....

Post Mortal Syndrome

by Damien Broderick & Barbara Lamar – Wildside Press (December 07, 2011)

immortality, longevity, science fiction, robin cook, michael crichton

Dark is the Moon

The View from the Mirror #3

by Ian Irvine – ORBIT (September 26, 2009)

In the third volume of this original saga, the young Sensitive Karan, who carries the blood of all three Worlds in her veins, finds herself holding the knowledge that can either heal or permanently destroy the...

The Tower on the Rift

The View from the Mirror #2

by Ian Irvine – ORBIT (February 28, 2009)

In this second volume, Karan, a young Sensitive carrying the blood of all three Worlds, comes into possession of the Mirror of Aachen, which holds the power to heal--or destroy--World relations. But as war rages,...

The Way Between the Worlds

The View from the Mirror #4

by Ian Irvine – ORBIT (February 28, 2009)

In the conclusion to this series, Karan, the young Sensitive who holds the Mirror of Aachen, which has the power to heal or permanently destroy the rift between Worlds, is held captive. Her lover, Llian, is...