Through Soft Air

	Through Soft Air ''Through Soft Air'' is the first short story collection from Australian speculative fiction writer Lee Battersby. Printed in 2006, it was published by US Publisher Prime Books. Stories The collection contains the following stories: * ''Father Muerte & the Theft'' * ''Silk'' * ''Carrying the God'' * ''Pass the Parcel'' * ''Through the Window Merrilee Dances'' * ''Elyse'' (previously unpublished) * ''The Divergence Tree'' * ''Jaracara's Kiss'' (previously unpublished) * ''The Hobbyist'' * ''Mikal'' (previously unpublished) * ''Letters to Josie'' * ''A Stone to Mark My Passing'' * ''Vortle'' * ''Ecdysis'' * ''A Very Good Lawyer'' * ''Goodfellow'' * ''Stalag Hollywood'' (previously unpublished) * ''Brillig'' * ''His Calliope''(previously unpublished) * ''Father Renoir's Hands'' (previously unpublished) * ''Through Soft Air'' * ''Dark Ages'' (previously unpublished) * ''Tales of Nireym'' * ''Father Muerte & the Rain'' * ''Pater Familias'' The cover art is by Gary Nurrish Gary ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Speculative Fiction Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe. Such fiction covers various themes in the context of supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative realms. The genres under this umbrella category include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (for example, science fantasy). History Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century. Characteristics of speculative fiction have been recognized in older works whose authors' Authorial intent, intentions, or in the social contexts of the stories they portray, are now known. For example, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lee Battersby Lee Battersby is an Australian author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. His story "Carrying The God" made him the first Western Australian winner in the Writers of the Future Competition in 2002, and was awarded the 2003 Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. His short story "Tales of Nireym" was a finalist in the Fantasy section of the 2005 Aurealis Awards, and "Pater Familias" won Best Horror Short Story in the 2006 awards. Another story, "Father Muerte & The Flesh", the third in his popular Father Muerte series, was awarded the inaugural Australian Shadows Award for outstanding literary achievement by the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2006. He won the award again in 2008 for "The Claws of Native Ghosts", a story which appeared in Graveside Tales' anthology "The Beast Within". Battersby was one of the tutors at Clarion South 2007, along with SF writers Robert Hood, Simon Brown, Margo Lanagan and Kelly Link; and editor Gardner Dozois. His first collection, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Prime Books Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, '' Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' The Dark Magazine'', and ''Fantasy Magazine''. He has been nominated a number of times by both the Hugo Awards and the World Fantasy Awards, won three Hugo Awards and two World Fantasy Awards, and has served as a World Fantasy Award judge. Career Wallace began publishing fiction in 1997, when he launched Cosmos Books, with Philip J. Harbottle, and released ''Fantasy Annual'', a paperback magazine of British authors including E.C. Tubb, John Russell Fearn, and Sydney Bounds. In 1999, the Cosmos Books name was licensed to Wildside Press and output greatly increased, expanding with American and Australian authors. He also became a freelance editor for Wildside Press, working from Ohio. In mid-2001, Wallace stepped in to assist an ailing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gary Nurrish Gary may refer to: Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;United States Gary (Tampa), Florida Gary, Maryland Gary, Minnesota Gary, South Dakota Gary, West Virginia Gary – New Duluth, a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos, Texas Gary City, Texas Ships USS ''Gary'' (DE-61), a destroyer escort launched in 1943 * USS ''Gary'' (CL-147), scheduled to be a light cruiser, but canceled prior to construction in 1945 * USS ''Gary'' (FFG-51), a frigate, commissioned in 1984 * USS ''Thomas J. Gary'' (DE-326), a destroyer escort commissioned in 1943 People and fictional characters Gary (surname), including a list of people with the name Gary (rapper), South Korean rapper and entertainer Gary (Argentine singer), Argentine singer of cuarteto songs Other uses '' Gary: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	2006 Short Story Collections 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second smallest composite number, behind 4; its proper divisors are , and . Since 6 equals the sum of its proper divisors, it is a perfect number; 6 is the smallest of the perfect numbers. It is also the smallest Granville number, or \mathcal-perfect number. As a perfect number: 6 is related to the Mersenne prime 3, since . (The next perfect number is 28.) 6 is the only even perfect number that is not the sum of successive odd cubes. 6 is the root of the 6-aliquot tree, and is itself the aliquot sum of only one other number; the square number, . Six is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers. Unrelated to 6's being a perfect number, a Golomb ruler of length 6 is a "perfect ruler" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Australian Short Story Collections Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia European Australians Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Horror Short Story Collections Horror may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres Horror fiction, a genre of fiction Japanese horror, Japanese horror fiction * Korean horror, Korean horror fiction Horror film, a film genre Horror comics, comic books focusing on horror Horror punk, a music genre Horrorcore, a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror Horror game, a video game genre Survival horror, a video game subgenre of horror and action-adventure Horror podcast, a podcast genre Films * ''Horror'' (2002 film), an American film by Dante Tomaselli * ''#Horror'', a 2015 American film by Tara Subkoff ''Horror'', Italian title for the 1963 Italian-Spanish film '' The Blancheville Monster'' Fictional characters Horror (''Garo''), fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu series ''Garo'' Horror icon, a significant person or fictional character in a horror genre Music Groups and labels Ho99o9 (pronounced Horror), an American hip hop group * The Horrors, an English rock band Albums and EPs * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]