Things I’m in love with this week

’Martian Triptych'

Appears in Jack Dann's Dreaming in the Dark and Best Australian Stories 2016

’The Changeling'

Appears in Jonathan Strahan's Fearsome Magics. Compare prices for the UK print edition and US print edition; also available for Kindle (US and UK) and most other ebook formats.

Beauty's Sister

(compare hard copy prices on Booko; also available in the UK for Kindle, and in Australia for Kindle, iBooks, Google Play, and Kobo)

’Skinsuit’

'The Inconvenient Dead'

'The Flats'

'Visitors'

'Catspaw, or The Rakshasa's Servant'

A Reef History of Time

Dreaming in the Key of Sea

Into the Deep: Diving into Time and Tide

The Library at the End of the World

Falling

Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between James Bradley and Anne Charnock

Could bringing Neanderthals back to life save the environment?

Terror, hope, anger, kindness: the complexity of life as we face the new normal

Unearthed: Last Days in the Anthropocene
The End of the Oceans

An Ocean and an Instant

A Family of Disguises: Michael Ondaatje's Warlight

The Element of Need: Murder and Memory in Adelaide
(available in the UK for Kindle, and in Australia for Kindle, iBooks, Google Play and Kobo)

Work in Progress: On Writing The Resurrectionist

Climate Watershed: Eelco Rohling's The Oceans: A Deep History, Micheline Jenner's The Secret Life of Whales and Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come

Slippery Migrants: what eels do when we're not watching

Sunburnt Country review: Joelle Gergis on a fraught future with climate change

Maybe I'm Amazed: A New Appreciation for Paul McCartney

The Great Southern Reef

Fish have feelings too

Made Things: Jeff Vandermeer's Borne

Writing on the Precipice

David Bowie: Loving the Alien

Strange Weather: Writing the Anthropocene

Annie Proulx's Barkskins

2001: A Space Oddity

James Nestor’s Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

The Beginning is Nigh: Caspar Henderson’s Book of Barely Imagined Beings

The Death of Negative Man

Encounters With The Uncanny: On Ghosts, Ghost Stories and Brain Science

Callum Roberts' Ocean of Life

Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker

Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

Lev Grossman's The Magician King

Grant Morrison's SuperGods

Susan Casey's The Wave: In Pursuit of the Ocean's Greatest Furies

China Miéville's Embassytown

Ian McDonald's The Dervish House

Summer and the Myths of Australianness

William Gibson's Zero History, Spook Country, Pattern Recognition and Distrust That Particular Flavor

Bloody beauties: the rise and rise of vampire lit

Never real and always true: on depression and creativity

All Of This Has Happened Before And Will Happen Again: Humanity, Inhumanity and Otherness in Battlestar Galactica

The idiot box grows a brain: the rise of the new television

Perfect worlds, in miniature: stories by Annie Proulx, Robert Drewe, Michael Chabon and Anne Enright

Stealing memory's thunder: James Frey and the rise of the fake memoir

A New Type Of Conversation

On Novels and Place

Beyond the Break: On Surfing and Writing