Category Archives: Science Fiction

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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The Stone Wētā by Octavia Cade – 2020

Posted on March 3, 2021 by alysonebaker

We are in a dystopian future where governmental and commercial interests have ensured the suppression of scientific information about climate change. Any efforts to inform humanity about the gravity of the ecological situation, and what might be done to halt … Continue reading →

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