What Is The Specusphere Team Up To?

Written by Amanda Greenslade (Admin account) | 24 January 2012

The Specusphere team consists of three main volunteers: Satima, Stephen and Amanda. We are busy working in our own businesses, but in our spare time we manage this free specfic webzine. This year we will publish our first book, Mythic Resonance an anthology of great Australian short stories in the theme of myths and legends.

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Writing Opportunities 2012 - First Quarter

Written by Administrator | 13 August 2011

Reviews Wanted

The Specusphere has a very dedicated book reviews editor, Satima Flavell, who has garnered the respect of Australian publishers of fantasy, science fiction and horror. Specusphere book reviewers are sent free copies of books for reviewing. We communicate with our reviewers via an exclusive email list. To get involved, please contact Satima directly.

We are also interested in reviews of spec-fic movie, TV series, computer games, board games and products. If you have anything interesting to share about a creative work or product related to sci-fi, fantasy, horror and the other types of speculative fiction, please send it in.

Articles Wanted

If you have something to say about speculative fiction, we would love to hear it. The Specusphere publishes a wide range of articles on anything to with the speculative. We welcome pop culture, fun, youthy articles through to literary, thought-provoking, serious articles. Anything goes at Specusphere, as we want to explore the entirety of what speculative fiction does, particularly in Australia. You are most welcome to share your opinion in your article.

 

Email your article or review to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

For those who wish to enhance their chances of publication, please adhere to our submission guidelines.

A List of Published Australian Spec-Fic Prose Writers

Written by Amanda Greenslade | 21 June 2010

The aim of this article is to be a detailed list of Australian speculative fiction prose authors covering genres they are published in and whether their works are novels, novellas and/or short story length fiction. The Specusphere aims to map the entire genre of speculative fiction in Australia, but we must undertake this task a step at a time. We need your help.

 

 

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The Specusphere's Definitive Guide to Writers in Australia of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Horror

Names are linked to information pages (such as Specusphere profiles or Wikipedia pages) and official author websites are at the end of each entry. Please see more notes and definitions at the end.

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      • Alison Venugoban, science fiction, novel and short stories, 
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      • Paul Voermans, science fiction, novel and short stories, no website 
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    • Giulio Zambon, science fiction, novel [sp] and short story, zambon.com.au

Notes 

Defining a genre as complex as speculative fiction is not an easy task so we humbly request your tolerance for human errors and differences of opinion and invite you to click here to submit additional information, provide an update or dispute a classification (see "How to become listed" below for the info. we need). If you see capitalised words like GENRE, LENGTH, WEBSITE etc., we are still in the process of gathering the data. You are welcome to send in the info here.

Author's names are linked to an info. page such as Specusphere, Wikipedia or Writers Directories so you can see where we got their information. Where an author is published in both spec-fic and other genres, only their spec-fic works are referred to here. Where an author writes for children or young adults, we will specify this (or all ages)—otherwise you can assume we are only aware of their works for adults.

Our priority for this list is printed spec-fic prose (which excludes e-books, graphic novels, screenwriting, scripts, poetry and non-fiction). We welcome any volunteers who wish to create and maintain a list for works other than printed prose (please contact us), but humbly remind them it may be an arduous and ongoing task.

If you would like to send this page to friends or post a link to it on your website or via social media, here is a tiny URL you can use: http://tinyurl.com/2ccuoaq

How to become listed 

Please email the following details to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it :

  • FULL NAME and/or any relevant pen names
  • GENRE (eg. science fiction, fantasy, horror). If they write spec-fic for children and/or young adults, please specify.
  • LENGTH (eg. novels, novellas/novelettes, short stories). Sorry, but we only have time with this list for these types of writing.
  • Website address (official and other).
  • If they're not Australian born but are considered Australian in their writing career, note [nAb].
  • If they're deceased, note [dec].

Anthology editors are invited to email us if their anthos have Australian writers not listed here, or if the publication updates any data listed here.

Definitions

Australian  born in Australia and or naturalised and/or having spent a significant portion of their writing career as an Australian citizen
CSFG Canberra Science Fiction Guild
FF Fantastic Fiction website
ISFD  Internet Science Fiction Database
[nAb] not Australian born
[sp] self-published (nb. not all sp writers are considered professional and/or noteworthy enough to list here)
Speculative fiction

see here for one possible definition

 
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About this website

The Specusphere is a free Australian speculative fiction webzine. See our latest bi-monthly edition on the home page or click here for articles and here for reviews.

Speculative fiction encompasses fantasy, science fiction, horror, paranormal romance, magic realism and more. If you are a spec-fic professional, you can have free publicity in our directory and you are welcome to send in books for review or request one of our editors interviews you in an upcoming issue.

If you like what you see here, please join our email bulletin list for occasional updates, Facebook follow buttonfollow us on Facebook and please link to us from your website.

Contribute to The Specusphere

Written by Amanda Greenslade (Admin account) | 22 February 2008

There are many ways for you to contribute to The Specusphere

You don't need a lot of time, but you do need commitment. We are seeking volunteers who are skilled in everything from writing reviews, columns and articles to graphic design, web design and video production.  

If you have the time to make ideas turn into something useful for the speculative fiction community, please contact us.

Click here  to read more about becoming a collaborator helping with the website.

Click here to find out about submitting articles or speculative fiction for publication. 

Click here to read more about what The Specusphere is.

Special Thanks

Thank you to Frey Micklethwait for the artwork in our banner, August 2010.

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