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Dancing Gerontius
''Dancing Gerontius'' is a science fiction short story by Australian writer Lee Harding. It was first published in the December 1969 issue of ''Vision of Tomorrow'', and later included in several Australia sf anthologies. Plot summary In a future where medical advances have allowed people to live longer and longer, the problem of what to do with the ever increasing number of older people is "solved" in a rather callous manner, yet one that many of them would accept. Further publications After the story's initial publication in ''Vision of Tomorrow'' in December 1969 it was reprinted as follows: * ''The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction'' edited by John Baxter (1971) * ''Australian Science Fiction 2'' edited by John Baxter (1975) * '' The Best Australian Science Fiction Writing : A Fifty Year Collection'' edited by Rob Gerrand (2004) Critical reception In his review of ''The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction'' critic George Turner called the story a "dark vision" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Harding (writer)
Lee John Harding (19 February 1937 – 19 April 2023) was an Australian freelance photographer, who became a writer of science fiction novels and short stories. Career Harding was born on 19 February 1937, in Colac, Victoria. He was a fan of science fiction and was among the founding members of the Melbourne Science Fiction Club. Harding's first published work appeared in the Sydney photographic magazine ''Photo Digest'' in 1958: a photographic coverage of the filming of '' On the Beach'', a 1959 adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel '' On the Beach'', in Melbourne and Frankston locations, accompanied by a personal written record of his adventures. This led to a request for a regular monthly column for the magazine on 35mm photography, and a subsequent photographic and written coverage of the filming of '' The Sundowners'' in Cooma. In 1961 Harding's first published short story, ''Displaced Person'', was published in ''Science Fantasy''. He continued to write and submit stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periodical
Periodical literature (singularly called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) consists of Publication, published works that appear in new releases on a regular schedule (''issues'' or ''numbers'', often numerically divided into annual ''volumes''). The most familiar example of periodical literature is the newspaper, but the magazine and the academic journal are also periodicals, as are some modern websites, e-journals, and other Electronic publishing, electronic-only publications produced recurrently on a schedule. Periodical publications cover a wide variety of topics, from academic, technical, and trade, to general-interest subjects such as leisure and entertainment. Article (publishing), Articles within a periodical are usually organized around a single main subject or theme and include a title, date of publication, author(s), and brief summary of the article. A periodical typically contains an editorial section that comments on subjects of interest to its readers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baxter (author)
John Baxter (born 14 December 1939 in Randwick, New South Wales) is an Australian writer, journalist, and film-maker. Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney. He has lived in Paris since 1989, where he is married to film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel. They have one daughter. He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s for '' New Worlds'', ''Science Fantasy'' and other British magazines. His first novel, though serialised in New Worlds as ''The God Killers'', was published as a book in the US by Ace as ''The Off-Worlders''. He was Visiting Professor at Hollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about science fiction in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction. Baxter has written other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities, including Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Steven Spielber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fifty Year Collection
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Turner (writer)
George Reginald Turner (8 October 1916 – 8 June 1997) was an Australian writer and critic, best known for the science fiction novels written in the later part of his career. His first science fiction story and novel appeared in 1978, when he was in his early sixties. By this point, however, he had already achieved success as a mainstream novelist, including a Miles Franklin Award, and as a literary critic. Biography Turner was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and educated in Melbourne. He served in the Australian Imperial Forces during the Second World War. Subsequently, he worked in a variety of fields, including as an employment officer, as a technician in the textile industry, and was a reviewer of science fiction for the Melbourne Newspaper ''The Age''.Collins, Paulsen & McMullen 1998, p. 173. Prior to writing science fiction, he had a well-established reputation as a mainstream literary fiction writer, his most productive period being from 1959 to 1967, during whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditmar Award Results
The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award, presented annually since 1969, usually at the Australian "Natcon". The historical nominations and results (listed in boldface) of the Award follow. 1969: Eighth Australian Science Fiction Convention, Melbourne Best Australian Science Fiction of any length, or collection * ''Pacific Book Of Australian SF'', John Baxter(Click on "Winners History" to access relevant page.) * '' False Fatherland'', A. Bertram Chandler * "Final Flower", Stephen Cook Best International Science Fiction of any length, or collection * '' An Age'', Brian Aldiss * '' Camp Concentration'', Thomas M. Disch * ''The Ring of Ritornel'', Charles Harness Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction * Brian Aldiss * R.A. Lafferty * Samuel R. Delany * Roger Zelazny Best Australian Amateur Science Fiction Publication or Fanzine * ''Australian Science Fiction Review'', John Bangsund * ''The Mentor'', Ronald L C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1969. Major publications Books * Mena Calthorpe – ''The Defectors'' * Jon Cleary – '' Remember Jack Hoxie'' * Dymphna Cusack – '' The Half-Burnt Tree'' * Sumner Locke Elliott – ''Edens Lost'' * George Johnston – ''Clean Straw for Nothing'' * Thomas Keneally – '' The Survivor'' * D'Arcy Niland – '' Dead Men Running'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' No Love to Give'' Short stories * Manning Clark – ''Disquiet and Other Stories'' * Lyndall Hadow – ''Full Cycle and Other Stories'' * Lee Harding – " Dancing Gerontius" * T. A. G. Hungerford – "Wong Chu and the Queen's Letterbox" * Frank Moorhouse – ''Futility and Other Animals'' * Dal Stivens – ''Selected Stories 1936-1968'' Children's and young adult fiction * Hesba Brinsmead – ''Isle of the Sea Horse'' * Annette Macarthur-Onslow – ''Uhu'' * Joan Phipson – ''Peter and Butch'' * Ivan Southal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Short Stories
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
