I've noticed recently that both when discussing privately with various members and here on the Forum that there's been a reasonable amount of interest expressed in Australian fiction, including SFF.
My intention of posting this thread is to feature reviews, discussion etc.. on any Australian authors whose works you may have come across.
I confess that although I have a strong interest in both SFF/Horror and for want of a better term "World Literature" that I have not read as much as I would like to of my own country's fiction.
To this end, I'll be reading the myriad of anthologies, collections and "classic" novels I do own but to a large extent am yet to have found the time to read. My interest extends beyond just SFF and Horror to literature in general and thus my focus will be relatively broad in this respect and include both "aboriginal", colonial and post-colonial fiction.
So please, if there's any Australian authors and their works that you have read in the past feel free to mention them here.
I won't be able to post anything for another couple of weeks as I need to begin trawling through my various texts first and even then this is intended to be a periodic contribution, at least where I'm concerned.
I may also consider expanding this thread to include the South Pacific Australasian region incl. New Zealand, PNG and surrounding islands.
My intention of posting this thread is to feature reviews, discussion etc.. on any Australian authors whose works you may have come across.
I confess that although I have a strong interest in both SFF/Horror and for want of a better term "World Literature" that I have not read as much as I would like to of my own country's fiction.
To this end, I'll be reading the myriad of anthologies, collections and "classic" novels I do own but to a large extent am yet to have found the time to read. My interest extends beyond just SFF and Horror to literature in general and thus my focus will be relatively broad in this respect and include both "aboriginal", colonial and post-colonial fiction.
So please, if there's any Australian authors and their works that you have read in the past feel free to mention them here.
I won't be able to post anything for another couple of weeks as I need to begin trawling through my various texts first and even then this is intended to be a periodic contribution, at least where I'm concerned.
I may also consider expanding this thread to include the South Pacific Australasian region incl. New Zealand, PNG and surrounding islands.