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Anthologies
edited and co-edited by Grace Bridges
Human settlement in the harshest of places. The Avenir: once a generational ship, now a crowded residential station and dominating force over a hard, broken world. Its people have nearly forgotten distant Earth, its wizards ponder the mysteries of the universe, its orphans suffer and beg, while the aristocrats live the high life. Eclectia: the highly unstable planet far below, pulled by its heavy moons into a fast wobble, its crust fractured and tormented with frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Miners and bug hunters eke out an existence through the grit and extreme seasons. The lucky ones live in undersea colonies, where submarines connect cities in the depths. The oceans teem with telepathic life everyone calls "angels." Sheba and Quatermain, the fractured and molten moons of Eclectia, are settled by miners and spacers, while merchants and smugglers ply their trades. For most, survival is an everyday question. Multi-author microfiction gives a many-faceted view of the future.
Te Korero Ahi Ka: To Speak of the Home Fires Burning
Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities...
Te Korero Ahi Ka, a term which means to speak of the home fires burning, is an anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, showcasing work from both established and emerging members of the SpecFicNZ organisation of writers, poets, artists, and creatives. It is a statement about how New Zealand creators of speculative fiction and art shine their light on our literary landscape.
The GeyserCon Book: Something Strange Happened in Rotorua
Programme book for New Zealand's 40th Science Fiction & Fantasy Convention, including Rotorua-themed short fiction and interviews from all four guests of honour, the best from the Con's short story contest, and more.
Something Strange Happened in Rotorua: Young NZ Writers
A companion to the GeyserCon Book, this is a collection of short stories by students from around NZ, all set in Rotorua.
Timegate to Tomorrow
The writers of these stories are the generation to which we will be handing over the future of the world and of new literature. This competition is proof that there are young people, many of them, with the passion and the fire to take the baton and run with it. Luckily for us, that's exactly what we need.
Timegate to Tomorrow contributors are Year 9-13 students from 25 high schools around New Zealand.
Created for Young NZ Writers
Alter Ego
Write Off Line 2017 brings together stories and poems from New Zealand secondary school students. Expecting tales of spandex-clad superheroes, instead the freshest voices in New Zealand fiction surprised us with the depth of their insight and the rawness of their delivery.Teen writers told of unassuming, circumspect alter egos, quietly powerful and as effective as any cape-wearing superhero, much like the writing in this soulful collection.
Created for Young NZ Writers
Aquasynthesis
aqua (n) - water, used in compound names, or substances in water.
synthesis (n) - The combining of elements into a unified entity.
aquasynthesis (n) - a combining of worlds within a pool of water; an anthology of short stories from Splashdown authors.
Gizile follows her mysterious teacher, Tok, as they look into the ice of an ocean pool to contemplate a series of strange and mystical visions: astonishing tales of technology and transcendence, aliens and elves, space and time, dragons and demons, prophecies and scriptures, humor and horror, the gifted and the enslaved, virtual and supernatural reality, insanity and inspiration.
Aquasynthesis Again
aqua: a solution, especially in water
synthesis: a complex whole formed by combining
aquasynthesis: a pool of stories, fed by the depths of creation and imagination; an anthology of short fiction by Splashdown authors.Our past, our future, our fate, our hope-all come to life within a frozen pool at the edge of a vast ocean swirling across the orb of a lost world. Join the authors of Splashdown Books on a journey across space, time, and reality. From Earth to other planets near and far, fantasy lands and Avenir Eclectia. Sixteen stories, one destination: Aquasynthesis.
