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• Recent Fiction

  ’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'

• Recent Non-Fiction

  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

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