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Journal articles on the topic "Australian Science fiction"

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Kerry, Stephen Craig. "Australian Queer Science Fiction Fans." Journal of Homosexuality 66, no. 1 (November 7, 2017): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1395262.

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Sean McMullen. "Australian Science Fiction in the Sixties." Antipodes 27, no. 1 (2013): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/antipodes.27.1.0073.

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Leane, Elizabeth, and Stephanie Pfennigwerth. "Antarctica in the Australian imagination." Polar Record 38, no. 207 (October 2002): 309–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001799x.

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AbstractAntarctica and Australia share a geographical marginality, a commonality that has produced and continues to reinforce historical and political ties between the two continents. Given this close relationship, surprisingly few fulllength novels set in or concerned with the Antarctic have been produced by Australian authors. Until 1990, two latenineteenth- century Utopias, and two novels by Thomas Keneally, were (to our knowledge) the sole representatives of this category. The last decade, however, has seen an upsurge of interest in Antarctica, and a corresponding increase in fictional response. Keneally's novels are ‘literary,’ but these more recent novels cover the gamut of popular genres: science fiction, action-thriller, and romance. Furthermore, they indicate a change in the perception of Antarctica and its place within international relations. Whereas Keneally is primarily concerned with the psychology of the explorer from the ‘Heroic Age,’ these younger Australian writers are interested in contemporary political, social, and environmental issues surrounding the continent. Literary critics have hitherto said little about textual representations of Antarctica; this paper opens a space for analysis of ‘Antarctic fiction,’ and explores the changing nature of Australian-Antarctic relations as represented by Australian writers.

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Richards, Isabel, and Anna-Sophie Jürgens. "Being the environment: Conveying environmental fragility and sustainability through Indigenous biocultural knowledge in contemporary Indigenous Australian science fiction." Journal of Science & Popular Culture 4, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 153–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jspc_00031_1.

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In contemporary Indigenous Australian fiction, all (non-)human animals, plants and the land are interconnected and interdependent. They are aware that they are not in the environment but are the environment. The planet and its non-human inhabitants have a creative agency and capacity for experience that demands our ethical consideration. In this article we investigate how Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe novels and Ellen van Neerven’s novella Water empower environmental awareness by promoting sustainability and protection of the environment – within their fictional worlds and beyond. We argue that the human–nature relationship explored in these science fiction texts conveys the importance of Indigenous biocultural knowledge for resolving twenty-first-century global challenges. We clarify the role of fictional texts in the broader cultural debate on the power and importance of Indigenous biocultural knowledge as a complement to western (scientific) understanding and communication of environmental vulnerability and sustainability. Contemporary Indigenous Australian literature, this article shows, evokes sympathy in readers, inspires an ecocentric view of the world and thus paves the path for a sustainable transformation of society, which has been recognized as the power of fiction. Indigenous Australian fiction texts help us to rethink what it means to be human in terms of our relationship to other living beings and our responsibility to care for our planet in a holistic and intuitive way.

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Guttfeld, Dorotta. "Australian Science Fiction: in Search of the “Feel”." Zeitschrift für Australienstudien / Australian Studies Journal 2122 (2008): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.35515/zfa/asj.2122/200708.08.

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Matek, Ljubica. "Australian Aboriginal SF – Blending Genre and Literary Fiction: A Review of Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction by Iva Polak." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 15, no. 1 (April 18, 2018): 129–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.15.1.129-131.

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The fact that Iva Polak’s monograph Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction is the first volume in Peter Lang’s World Science Fiction Studies series, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, is symbolic of the actual novelty and relevance of Polak’s work. It is, in fact, the first book-length study in English dedicated to the analysis of Australian Aboriginal fiction from the point of view of the theory of the fantastic.

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Rooney, Brigid, and Michael Wilding. "Studies in Classic Australian Fiction." Labour History, no. 76 (1999): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516642.

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Klik, Lukas. "The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction." Journal of Australian Studies 42, no. 4 (October 2, 2018): 540–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2018.1542939.

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Cogbill-Seiders, Elisa. "Review of "The science of communicating science by Craig Cormick," Cormick, C. (2019). The science of communicating science. CSIRO publishing." Communication Design Quarterly 9, no. 1 (March 2021): 37–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3437000.3437005.

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The Science of Communicating Science by Dr. Craig Cormick is a lively introduction to the foundational principles of science communications, particularly those oriented towards the public. Dr. Craig Cormick is a well-known science communicator and former president of the Australian Science Communicators, a network of science communicators and journalists. Cormick has also written over 30 books of fiction and non-fiction---in addition to academic articles---and has worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), which incidentally also published his textbook. The Science of Communicating Science operates on the premise that science communication is a complex process requiring extensive and time-consuming interdisciplinary research. Cormick's textbook aims to simplify the learning process by distilling well over 400 sources into a compact volume so that novice science communicators may learn important skills for informing and empowering the public by telling engaging stories, fostering interdisciplinary skills, and understanding the audience.

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Walsh, Pete. "What ifs and idle daydreaming: The creative processes of Andrew McGahan." Queensland Review 23, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.7.

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AbstractAndrew McGahan is one of Queensland's most successful novelists. Over the past 23 years, he has published six adult novels and three novels in his Ship Kings series for young adults. McGahan's debut novel, Praise (1992), won the Vogel National Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, Last Drinks (2000) won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, and The White Earth went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age Book of the Year Award and the Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. In 2009, Wonders of a Godless World earned McGahan the Best Science Fiction Novel in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction. McGahan's unashamedly open critiques of Australian, and specifically Queensland, society have imbued his works with a sense of place and space that is a unique trait of his writing. In this interview, McGahan allows us a brief visit into the mind of one of Australia's pre-eminent contemporary authors, shedding light on the ‘what ifs’ and ‘idle daydreaming’ that have pushed his ideas from periphery to page.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Australian Science fiction"

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Reid, Michelle. "National identity in contemporary Australian and Canadian science fiction." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413934.

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Byrnes, Claire D. "Blood on her hands: A practice-led approach to exploring violent heroines in dystopian fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/121424/2/Claire_Byrnes_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative practice-led research project investigates the creation of violent female protagonists in dystopian fiction in order to discover what these type of characters reveal about society's ideas of gender. The outcome of the project is research product or artefact, a work of fiction titled 'Swan Song'. The work is deliberately poetic in presentation to encourage readers to consider the complexity of female gender construction. The project accomplishes this by incorporating aspects of evocative practice research, action research, and fiction in the research methods.

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Dedman, Stephen. "Techronomicon (novel) ; and The weapon shop : the relationship between American science fiction and the US military (dissertation)." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0093.

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Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Operation Techronomicon, investigating what seems to be a Zhir-built defence shield around the planet Lassana. Another JEF company sent to Kalaabhavan after the murder of the planets Confessor-General loses its CO to a land-mine, and Lieutenant Hellerman reluctantly accepts command. Chevalier, a civilian pilot, takes refugees fleeing military-run detention camps on Ararat to a biological research station on otherwise uninhabited Lila. The biologists on Lila discover a symbiote that enables humans to photosynthesize, which comes to the attention of Operation Techronomicon and the JEF's Weapons Research Division. Leneveldt and Roeder, frustrated by the lack of progress on Lassana, are sent to Lila to detain the biologists, who flee into the swamps. Hellerman's efforts to restore peace on Kalaabhavan are frustrated by the Confessors, and his company finds itself besieged by insurgents. The novel explores individuals' motives for choosing or rejecting violence and/or military service; the lessons they learn about themselves and their enemies; and the possible results of attempts to forcibly suppress ideas.

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Richards, Isabel. "Science communication through animistic magic in Aboriginal Australian sci-fi texts." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/256626.

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Fiction is a powerful tool for science communication. Sci-fi, a particularly influential fiction genre, can shape people’s understanding and perceptions of science. Most science communication research pertaining to the meaning-making of science in fiction and in sci-fi has focused on texts written by Western authors – and thus reflect Western meanings of science and visions of the future. To obtain a more comprehensive and culturally inclusive understanding of science communication in fiction, it is important to study how sci-fi written by Indigenous peoples depicts science and conveys its meanings. In my thesis, I investigate how science manifests in four contemporary Aboriginal Australian sci-fi texts. These include the novels The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf (2012), The Disappearance of Ember Crow (2013), and The Foretelling of Georgie Spider (2015) written by Palyku author Ambelin Kwaymullina, as well as the novella Water (2014) by Mununjali author Ellen van Neerven. I uncover and compare how these texts explore the similarities and differences between Western science and Indigenous ways of knowing (that communicate knowledge about the world). In particular, I show how these texts reveal a form of scientific thinking that transcends the typical patterns of Western science, exploring the question of what it means to be human in terms of our reciprocal relationship with and responsibility to nature and its non-human inhabitants. I argue that animistic magic in my four study texts – as a repository of stimulating themes, characters, and literary devices – plays a crucial role in communicating, empowering, and creating meaning out of this Indigenous scientific thinking. In this way, my thesis contributes new perspectives to science communication literature on the cultural meanings of science. Specifically, I add how Aboriginal Australian fiction conveys the importance of complementing Western science with Indigenous ways of knowing to better address 21st century issues related to climate change and sustainability.

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Batho, Susan P. "The effect of commercialisation and direct intervention by the owners of intellectual copyright : a case study : the Australian Star Trek fan community." Thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/564823.

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In the early 1990s, Australian Star Trek fandom appeared to be thriving, with large numbers of members in individual clubs, many publications being produced and conventions being held. The Star Trek phenomenon was also growing, with its profitability being an attractive selling point. In 1994, Viacom purchased Paramount Communications, and expanded the control over its rights by offering licences to the title of Official Star Trek Club for countries outside of the United States, as well licences for numerous commercially sold items At the time they were in negotiation with the Microsoft Corporation to establish an on-line community space for Star Trek to attract the expanding internet fan presence, and relaunching Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books which was part of Paramount Communications, as its sole source of Star Trek fiction, and had organised to launch the Star Trek Omnipedia, a CD produced by Simon & Schuster Interactive. A new Star Trek series, Voyager, was about to appear, and marketing-wise, it was a good time to expand their presence commercially, launch the new website, and organise the fans through Official Star Trek Clubs, feeding them new merchandise, and the new website. The licence was offered in Australia, and three clubs vied for the right to purchase the licence. It was eventually bought by a business, Photon Productions, run by fans who had previously run one of the clubs. That club was wound down in favour of the business and the clubs competing for the title saw the fact that a business had bought the licence as being unfair to fans. Clubs across Australia received “Cease and Desist” letters from the licensing agent for Paramount Communications, Southern Star, and small clubs began to fold after receipt of the letter. Finally a meeting was called, between Paramount Communications and the major Star Trek fan clubs in Australia, and restrictions were placed upon the fans concerning their activities. The nature of fannish activities changed, and many clubs and publications closed down. This research looks at whether the meeting between Paramount Communications and the Star Trek fan clubs had a pivotal role in the changes to Australian Star Trek fandom, or whether there were other contributing factors involved.

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Boshoff, Dorothea. "Crafting positions : representations of intimacy and gender in The Sentients of Orion." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23473.

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This study comprises a close reading and textual analysis of The Sentients of Orion, a space opera series by Australian author Marianne de Pierres, with a view to investigating the representations of gender in modern, popular science fiction by women authors. I hypothesise that de Pierres will pose a fictional enquiry into gender, based on the richness of science fiction by women, but that a closer examination of physical and emotional intimacy (both positive and negative) in these ‘less literary works’ will prove de Pierres’ gender enquiry to be superficial and inconsistent in nature. My main approach is a qualitative exploration of selected incidents through the theoretical lenses of feminist literary criticism, gender theory and, where applicable, queer theory. While I draw eclectically on these interpretive paradigms, my approach is most closely aligned with poststructuralist feminism. Proving the first part of my hypothesis, my findings show that de Pierres does pose an enquiry into gender through her portrayal of plot and character. The particular focus on the intimacies involving the heroine, women, men, and alien characters, proves the second part of my hypothesis incorrect as it reveals how de Pierres not only deeply and consistently challenges the heteronormative status quo, questioning dynamics in relationships, gender roles, ageism, sexism and societal stereotypes, but also provides possible alternatives.
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Robinson, Alice. "Landfall: reading and writing Australia through climate change." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24440/.

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This creative writing thesis begins with the premise that climate change poses critical outcomes for the Australian continent, and asks what the consequences of this are as the precariousness of Australia’s future in relation to climate change continues to gather pace. Comprising a novel (70%) and exegesis (30%), the thesis as a whole seeks to explore the connections between climate change, land and culture in Australia, and to investigate settler Australian understandings regarding ‘place’, ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ in relation to both settlement and unsettledness in contemporary times.

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Holmes, Susan. "Blue Collar, Red Dress: A Novel and Critical Commentary." Thesis, 1998. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/318/.

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This submission for a Master of Arts by research is comprised of a novel, 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' and a Critical Commentary. 'Blue Collar, Red Dress' is a work of fiction, based on my own experiences of growing up in Housing Commission flats in the 1960s. It is the story of Linda and Heidi, their friendship and their lives as they both make transitions across social classes, one through further education and the other through her work. Ultimately they both realise you cannot eradicate your past, but for one of them the journey ends in tragedy. The Critical Commentary, the theoretical component of the Masters, explores representations of class, and particularly Anglo working-class women, in a range of Australian women's novels from the 1930s to 1960s, and the 1970s to 1990s. My hypothesis is that these representations have taken on a particular focus, and sites of reference, due to the class background and experience of the writers themselves. This thesis involved using an range of qualitative research methods, including the use of both primary and secondary sources. The novel, whilst drawing on my own lived experience, also required historical and social research. The critical commentary was completed using more trdditional research including analysing a range of sources on class issues, analysing literary theory (particularly relating to class, race and gender), searching of literature data bases, and analysis of novels (and reviews of those novels) in the two key periods. I also referred to various sources regarding the background of the writers studied, including autobiographies and directories of Australian writers.

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Mitchell, Euan Wallace. "Making noises: contextualising the politics of Rorty’s neopragmatism to assess its sustainability." Thesis, 2005. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/1462/.

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This creative thesis is written in two parts: Volume 1 is a novel and Volume 2 is the accompanying exegesis which explains the process of contextualising a school of philosophy’s politics within the novel. These volumes combine to build a new window onto contemporary theoretical debate regarding the sustainability of so-called liberal democracy. Volume 1, the novel, provides a fictionalised account of federal government involvement with the popular music industry in Australia during the 1990s. The story is told from the point of view of a newcomer to a music industry organisation funded by the federal government called the ‘Oz Rock Foundation’. This organisation is run by a former federal politician who maintains close links with his political colleagues still in government. When the newcomer discovers a young Aboriginal prisoner with exceptional musical talents, the former politician seizes this opportunity to help launch the Oz Rock Foundation in the ‘Year of the Indigenous Person’. This venture, however, has unexpected consequences which emerge as the story develops. Volume 2, the exegesis, employs a narrative framework to explain the process by which an analysis of philosopher Richard Rorty’s version of neopragmatism fed into the creation of the novel. Political issues raised by neopragmatism are thematically linked to fictional contexts informed by the history of government experimentation with the Australian music industry. The process is guided by questions designed to assess whether a neopragmatic version of liberal democracy is sustainable in this form. The novel is further shaped by its attempt to extend a particular tradition, within the genre of the political novel, that contextualises themes related to ‘natural rights’ as the foundation of liberal democracy. The exegesis, in its discussion of issues raised by the completed novel, then draws on existing research into the sustainability of democracy in order to synthesise an overall perspective. NOTE: Due to copyright arrangements with the publisher of Making Noises, the text of the novel (Volume 1) is not available as part of the digital version of this thesis. The novel was published in November 2006 by OverDog Press (Melbourne, Australia). The ISBN is: 9780975797921

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Books on the topic "Australian Science fiction"

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Stone, Graham. Australian science fiction bibliography 1848-1999. 2nd ed. Sydney: Graham Stone, 2010.

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Egan, Greg. Quarantäne: Science-fiction-Roman. Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei-Verl. Lübbe, 1993.

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1954-, Collins Paul, Paulsen Steven 1955-, and McMullen Sean 1948-, eds. The MUP encyclopaedia of Australian science fiction & fantasy. Carlton South, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998.

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1947-, McNamara Peter, and Winch Margaret 1945-, eds. Alien shores: An anthology of Australian science fiction. North Adelaide, S.A: Aphelion Publications, 1994.

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Blackford, Russell. Strange constellations: A history of Australian science fiction. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.

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Molesworth, Vol. A history of Australian science fiction fandom, 1935-1963. Sydney: Graham Stone, 2009.

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Broderick, Damien. The dark between the stars: Speculative fiction. Port Melbourne, Vic: Mandarin Australia, 1991.

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Blackford, Russell. Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's space/time fiction. New Lambton, N.S.W: Nimrod Publications, 1998.

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Hanson, Donna Maree. Australian speculative fiction: A genre overview. Murrumbateman, N.S.W: Aust Speculative Fiction, 2005.

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Rob, Gerrand, ed. The best Australian science fiction writing: A fifty year collection. Melbourne, Vic: Black Inc., 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Australian Science fiction"

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Blackford, Russell. "25: Australian Science Fiction." In A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900, 373–86. Boydell and Brewer, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781571136985-029.

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Milner, Andrew, and J. R. Burgmann. "Changing the Climate: Some Provisional Conclusions." In Science Fiction and Climate Change, 190–94. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621723.003.0009.

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The chapter opens with an account of the ‘value relevance’ of the authors’ own loosely ‘Green’ beliefs and of how these led them to search for a cli-fi version of Nevil Shute’s On the Beach. They conclude that no such text exists as yet, but note the operation of what they term an ‘Off-Shute effect’, in which the cumulative weight of many different cli-fi texts could have a cumulative effect on real-world behaviour. One of their more striking unanticipated findings, they explain, was that none of their climate fictions, not even those by avowed socialists like Kim Stanley Robinson, depict the organised working class as the social force most likely to prevent anthropogenic global warming. They hypothesise that this is an effect of the persistence into the twenty-first century of ideological residues of postmodernism and stress that the term ‘Green’ as a political signifier derives from the Australian ‘Green bans’, that is from organised labour. The book and the chapter end with an insistence that climate fictions are warnings, rather than predictions or prophecies, and that warnings are there to be heeded and acted upon.

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Ashley, Mike. "The Second Interlude: Other Worlds." In Science Fiction Rebels, 148–66. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781382608.003.0005.

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This chapter charts to growth of the sf magazine in other English speaking countries, chiefly Canada, Australia and Eire, but also South Africa and Singapore. This brought other national identities into science fiction, with a wide range of approaches from Canada’s remote individuality to Australia’s recognition of its aboriginal influences.

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Schembri, Peter, Mark David Ryan, and Lauren Carroll Harris. "SCIENCE FICTION." In Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2, 158–71. Intellect Books, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv36xvmdt.21.

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Glowczewski, Barbara. "A Topological Approach to Australian Cosmology and Social Organisation." In Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze, 202–22. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450300.003.0007.

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Aboriginal kinship has stimulated many mathematicians. In the 1980’s, Glowczewski showed that there is a non euclidian ‘topologic’ that is common to what Indigenous Australians call their “Law”: a non hierarchical system of classificatory ritual kinship, a projection of the mythical travels of totemic ancestors (the Dreamings) into the landscape and a system of ritual obligations taboos. In other words, the social valorisation of heterogeneity recognises irreducible singularities shared by humans, non humans and the land as a condition for a commons that in no way homogenises society into a hierarchical order. The topological figure of the hypercube was used here to illustrate some complex Aboriginal relational rules that exclude the centralisation of power both in social organisation and in the totemic cosmology. To translate Indigenous spatio-temporal concepts Glowczewski was partly inspired by science fiction, that speculates about the 4^th dimension. When shown the hypercube as a tool to account for the kinship logic of their Dreamings, the Warlpiri elders thought it was a ‘good game’! First published in 1989.

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McFarlane, Brian. "Making It Overseas." In The Films of Fred Schepisi, 42–65. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835352.003.0004.

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This chapter traces the growth of Schepisi’s international career. In the US he worked in a range of genres, including western, romantic comedy, and science-fiction. Certain recurring traits emerge, such as his concern for individuals in their communities; his liberal approaches to adaptation; the use of locations, whether US, Canada, or the UK (for Plenty); and his accustoming himself to production circumstances different from those that prevailed in Australia.

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"A Colloquium with Darko Suvin: Interview with Science Fiction Magazine, Australia (2000–02)." In Disputing the Deluge. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501384806.0013.

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Glowczewski, Barbara. "Standing with the Earth: From Cosmopolitical Exhaustion to Indigenous Solidarities." In Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze, 340–56. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474450300.003.0013.

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This essay shows that the exhaustion of the earth, of certain ontologies, and of our creative forces, are all interconnected, just as the ethico-aesthetic responses to this exhaustion are inseparable from cosmopolitics. More and more activist movements struggling against the destruction of their living environments – especially because of the extractive industries that accelerate the climate change and poison the water and the air, – look for alliance with and inspiration from Indigenous people, such as Aboriginal Australians, whose vision of the Earth is not to deny nature on the pretext that it would have succumbed to human technologies. This article proposes to respond to the reduction of ontologies in anthropology with a “slow anthropology” that would be “standing with the Earth”, a slow anthropology based on a field experience, ecosophically inspired by visions and creativity of Indigenous peoples and of their allies, and by the Science Fiction according to Haraway, Stengers and Meillassoux. First published in 2017.

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Conference papers on the topic "Australian Science fiction"

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Mubin, Omar, Mohammad Obaid, Wolmet Barendregt, Simeon Simoff, and Morten Fjeld. "Science Fiction and the Reality of HCI." In OzCHI '15: The Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2838739.2838835.

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