Category Archives: Science Fiction

Empathy by Bryan Walpert – 2025

Posted on November 13, 2025 by alysonebaker

David Geller is a father of two, Gemma and Finn. He is  a grieving widower. He is an “upper-level chemistry and biology” teacher. He is a compulsive organiser “a little OCD”. When David’s father, Edward, goes missing, things get very … Continue reading →

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Audition by Pip Adam – 2023

Posted on November 15, 2023 by alysonebaker

“I tried to sigh,” Alba says. “But that banged my head into the roof.” Alba is not in a good way – she is squashed into a small space getting increasingly smaller. She is with Stanley and Drew, who are … Continue reading →

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Turncoat by Tīhema Baker – 2023

Posted on August 10, 2023 by alysonebaker

Kytoonoo 1 Daniel is an idealistic young man on Earth – a planet colonised by the Noor from Owteer, who have colonised many planets throughout the solar system. Daniel has decided he will help his people, Humans, from inside the … Continue reading →

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The Words for Her by Thomasin Sleigh – 2023

Posted on July 1, 2023 by alysonebaker

The words are pouring out of Jodie Pascoe, she is desperate to get them down, to tell her story. She needs to describe her daughter Jade. The words are for her blind father, who always wanted her to “to tell … Continue reading →

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You Are My Sunshine by Octavia Cade – 2023

Posted on June 24, 2023 by alysonebaker

You are my sunshine is an anthology set in a completely recognisable world of ecological and environmental collapse, brought about by corporate greed and general apathy. But as brutal as the descriptions are, it is a hopeful collection, even if … Continue reading →

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Isobar Precinct by Angelique Kasmara – 2021

Posted on February 14, 2022 by alysonebaker

Lestari, a tattoo artist, is helping her friend and business partner, Frank, install his latest art installation in Symonds Street Cemetery: a statue of St Michael, which Frank will document as it decays and is defaced through time. Jasper is … Continue reading →

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The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay – 2020

Posted on October 2, 2021 by alysonebaker

I think anthropomorphism is useful when it enables people, and researchers, to see non-human animals as thinking feeling beings with a sense of their place in the world. I think anthropomorphism is a bad thing when it entails the animals … Continue reading →

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The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade – 2021

Posted on August 2, 2021 by alysonebaker

“Can you watch something die and let it die?” The global mismanagement of the Covid pandemic, and consequential human deaths. The plundering of the environment, and consequential deaths of humans, non-human and ecosystems. The decades of spewing greenhouse gases into … Continue reading →

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Deadhead by Glenn Wood – 2020

Posted on March 29, 2021 by alysonebaker

Spencer is a teenage genius, he makes a bit on the side to help his solo Mum pay the bills, by procuring things for school mates, or by providing them with answers to upcoming exams. But one job goes awfully … Continue reading →

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Neands by Dan Salmon – 2020

Posted on March 18, 2021 by alysonebaker

Charles Feynman Rutherford, the son of scientists, was named after scientists, and was expected to become a scientist. But Charlie is growing up in a world were science is being taught less and less. Science is being replaced by Christian … Continue reading →

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