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Rupetta
''Rupetta'' (2013) is a science fiction novel by Australian writer Nike Sulway, who has previously published work under the pseudonym Nicole Bourke. The novel won the 2013 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Plot summary The novel follows the story of Rupetta, a mechanical woman built in rural France in 1619 and endowed with sentience and immortality. In order for Rupetta to function properly, she must be "wound" like a clock. The responsibility for this "wynding" falls on the female descendants of Rupetta's creator Eloise. The novel explores the interactions over the generations between Rupetta and her "wynders". Reviews George Williams in ''The Australian'' found: "The book is notable not just for its original story but its form. It is written in an unusual, lilting style that somehow manages to capture the emotional resonance of the scene, whether it be happy, melancholy, earnest or reflective. The style brings to mind a children's fairytale...Rupetta is a rich, complex work wrapped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Bourke
Nike Sulway (''née'' Bourke; born 1968) is an Australian novelist. Career Nike Sulway is a novelist, short story writer, researcher, and teacher who works across speculative and literary fiction. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Griffith University and is a graduate of the Clarion South Writers Workshop. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in a range of journals, including ''Lightspeed'', ''Shimmer'', '' Interzone'', ''Fantasy Magazine'', '' Review of Australian Fiction'', '' Meanjin'', ''Liminality'', '' Southerly'', ''Verity La'', ''Cordite Poetry Review'' and ''ASIM'' (''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine''). She has also had works included in a range of anthologies, including The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, vol. 10 (edited by Jonathan Strahan), ''The Best of Shimmer'', ''Letters to Tiptree'', and ''Mythic Resonance''. As a novelist, she writes both mainstream or literary fiction, though her works consistently focus on the role of mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013. Events * James Ley launches the ''Sydney Review of Books'' to provide "an opportunity for Australia's critics to rediscover the art of literary criticism". * The longlist for the inaugural Stella Prize is announced. * The shortlist of the Miles Franklin Award contains only female writers for the first time. * Nicole Bourke, writing under the pseudonym "N. A. Sulway", becomes the first Australian writer to win the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for her novel ''Rupetta''. * Aora Children's Literature Research Centre in Sydney closes after 12 years of operation. Major publications Literary fiction * Debra Adelaide – ''Letter to George Clooney'' * Steven Carroll – ''A World of Other People'' * J. M. Coetzee – '' The Childhood of Jesus'' * Richard Flanagan – '' The Narrow Road to the Deep North'' * Andrea Goldsmith – ''The Memory Trap'' * Ashley Hay – ''The Railwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK."Discover the darker side of the Dales" '' Yorkshire Post'', 1 May 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2014. Background Tartarus Press is run by and Rosalie Parker. It publishes classic and contemporary works of supernatural and strange fiction. Tartarus classic authors include |
James Tiptree, Jr
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Tiptree's debut story collection, '' Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home'', was published in 1973 and her first novel, '' Up the Walls of the World'', was published in 1978. Her other works include 1973 novelette "The Women Men Don't See", 1974 novella " The Girl Who Was Plugged In", 1976 novella " Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", 1985 novel ''Brightness Falls from the Air'', and 1990 short story "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"''.'' Early life, family and education Alice Hastings Bradley came from a family in the intellectual enclave of Hyde Park, a university neigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Science Fiction Novels
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Australian Science Fiction Novels
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James Tiptree Jr
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Tiptree's debut story collection, '' Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home'', was published in 1973 and her first novel, '' Up the Walls of the World'', was published in 1978. Her other works include 1973 novelette "The Women Men Don't See", 1974 novella " The Girl Who Was Plugged In", 1976 novella " Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", 1985 novel ''Brightness Falls from the Air'', and 1990 short story "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"''.'' Early life, family and education Alice Hastings Bradley came from a family in the intellectual enclave of Hyde Park, a university neig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
