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Hyperdreams: The Space/Time Fictions of Damien Broderick, by Russell Blackford (Babel Handbooks, 1998)

CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIANS (D. W. Thorpe, 1995)

OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE, 1985.

WHO'S WHO OF AUSTRALIAN WRITERS (D. W. Thorpe, 1991)

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS, (St James: second edition, contains revised entry; third and fourth editions contains additionally revised entry, plus literary assessment by Prof. Michael Tolley).

THE NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION, ed. James Gunn (Viking, 1988).

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION, eds. John Clute and Peter Nicholls (second edition, 1993).

The Dreaming Dragons listed and discussed in David Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels [survey of best English-language SF since Orwell's 1984], Carroll and Graf, 1985, pp. 201-2.

Transmitters, and Valencies (with Rory Barnes), discussed in Brian Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, Gollancz 1986. 

Feature Issue of Science Fiction, Vol. 4, No. 3, September 1982, ed. Dr Van Ikin: contains interview with Dr Russell Blackford, pp. 94-105, and review of The Judas Mandala, pp. 118-120.

Special Supplement to Mattoid, No. 24, commemorating 1986 Writer-in-Residency at Deakin University: interview, review, poetry, short fiction, extract from work in progress.

`Literary Liar - The writing of Damien Broderick', by Russell Blackford, Age Monthly Review, Vol. 9, No. 6, September 1989, pp. 10-1.

Feature Issue of Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction (University of Liverpool), No. 59, Autumn 1993: includes `The Profession of Science Fiction, 44: Damien Broderick', pp. 5-16.

Discussed in most recent texts dealing with Australian writing, such as Gelder and Salzman, The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970-88, McPhee Gribble 1989, pp. 118, 120-2; McLaren, Australian Literature: An Historical Introduction, Longman Cheshire 1989, p. 218; Daniel, The Good Reading Guide, McPhee Gribble 1989, pp. 26-7; etc.

Novels

THE DREAMING DRAGONS, Norstrilia, Australia, 1980; Pocket Books, USA, 1980; Penguin, Australia, 1981; Bastei Lubbe, Germany, as DIE TRAUMENDEN DRACHEN, 1983; Nord, Italy, as SULL’ORLO DEL CICLONE, 2000.
Ditmar Award for Best Australian SF novel, 1981.

Runner-up, John W. Campbell Memorial Award [international jury prize for year's best SF novel in English], 1981. 


THE DREAMING,   revised and updated ebook edition of The Dreaming Dragons http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook561.htm,  2001; this should now be regarded as the preferred text.

THE JUDAS MANDALA, Pocket Books, USA, 1982; Portuguese translation in press.Revised edition, Mandarin Australia, 1990.

TRANSMITTERS, Ebony Books, Australia, 1984 (not SF).
Special Ditmar Award, 1985.


THE BLACK GRAIL, Avon Books, USA, 1986 (revised and extended version of SORCERER'S WORLD, Signet, USA, 1970); Mandarin Australia, 1990; Express (Poland) as CZARNY GRAAL, 1990.


STRIPED HOLES, Avon Books, USA, 1988; Mandarin Australia, 1990; Rebis (Poland) as PASIASTE DZIURY, 1991.
Ditmar Award for Best Australian SF novel, 1989.


THE SEA'S FURTHEST END, Aphelion, Australia (Young Adult SF) , 1993.


[These six novels comprise the thematic sequence `The Faustus Hexagram']


THE WHITE ABACUS, AvonEOS, USA, 1997
Ditmar Award for Best Australian SF novel, 1998
Aurealis Award for Best Australian SF novel, 1998


TRANSCENSION, New York: Tor Books, 2002


JACK AND THE ALIENS, Word Weavers Press (Children's Fiction), 2002
   


JACK AND THE SKYHOOK, Word Weavers Press (Children's Fiction), 2003.


with Rory Barnes


VALENCIES, University of Queensland Press, 1983.


ZONES, HarperCollins Australia, Sydney: HarperCollins (Young Adult SF), 1997.


STUCK IN FAST FORWARD, Sydney: HarperCollins (Young Adult SF), 1999.


THE BOOK OF REVELATION, Sydney: HarperCollins, 1999.


THE HUNGER OF TIME, New York: E-Reads, 2003.  


I SUPPOSE A ROOT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION: A Comedy of Bad Manners, Holicong. PA: PointBlank Press, 2006.

 

Edited Anthologies

 

THE ZEITGEIST MACHINE: A New Anthology of Science Fiction, Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1977.

 

STRANGE ATTRACTORS: Original Australian Speculative Fiction, Hale & Iremonger, Australia, 1985.

 

MATILDA AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT: A New Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, Angus & Robertson, 1988.

 

NOT THE ONLY PLANET: Science Fiction Travel Stories, Melbourne/Paris/London/NY: Lonely Planet, 1998.

 

EARTH IS BUT A STAR: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future, University of Western Australia Press, April 2001

 
 
Co-edited with David G. Hartwell:
 

CENTAURUS: Best of Australian Science Fiction, NY: Tor, 1999.

 

ABC Radio Plays

 

Adaptations of published texts: THE TRUTH MACHINE; TRANSMITTERS; STRIPED HOLES.

Commissioned original drama: TIME ZONES (broadcast December 1992); SCHRÖDINGER'S DOG (broadcast July 1995; Australian entry for Prix Italia).

Critical/ Theoretical Books

 

THE ARCHITECTURE OF BABEL: Discourses of Literature and Science, Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press, 1994 

 

READING BY STARLIGHT: Postmodern Science Fiction, London: Routledge Popular Fiction series, 1995 

 

THEORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS, Geelong, Australia: Deakin University Press, 1997

 

TRANSREALIST FICTION: Writing in the Slipstream of Science, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2000

 

x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction, Holicong: PA, 2004

 

FEROCIOUS MINDS: Polymathy and the new Enlightenment, Holicong: PA, 2005


Popular Science

THE LOTTO EFFECT: Towards a Technology of the Paranormal, Hudson: Hawthorn, Australia, 1992

 

THE SPIKE: Accelerating into the Unimaginable Future, Sydney, Australia: Reed Books, 1997

 

THE LAST MORTAL GENERATION: How Science Will Alter our Lives in the 21st Century, Sydney, Australia: New Holland/Striek, 1999

 

THE SPIKE: How Our Lives are being Transformed by Rapidly Advancing Technologies (revised, expanded and updated version of 1997 book) New York: Tor/Forge, 2001

 

EBooks

 

THE GAME OF STARS AND SOULS, Fictionwise.com, 2000. (40,000 word novella drawn from The Sea’s Furthest End.)

THE DREAMING,   revised and updated ebook edition of The Dreaming Dragons
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook561.htm,
  2001

 

Short story collections

A MAN RETURNED, Horwitz, Australia, 1965.

Contains:

'The Howling Sky' (no previous publication)

`The Disposal Man' (in MAN? also in International Science Fiction, Vol 1, No 1, ed. Fred Pohl, November 1967)

`A Question of Conscience' (?)

`All My Yesterdays' (Chaos, Monash University, 15 May, 1964)

`Children of Tantalus' (no previous publication)

`Little Tin God' (in MAN JUNIOR, no date)

`A Man Returned' (in MAN, no date)

`Requiem in Heaven' (no previous publication)

`I Remember Man' (as `Lilacs out of the Dead Land', Orpheus, Monash University 1963, pp. 42-44)

`Darkness Changeling' (Chaos 1964?)

`Every Little Star' (in MAN as `Casanova Mark II', no date)

`There was a Star' (no previous publication)

 

THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS, Mandarin Australia, 1991.

 

Contains:

`Introduction'

`All My Yesterdays' (see above)

`A Tooth for Every Child' (Urban Fantasies, ed. David King and Russell Blackford, Ebony Books, Australia, 1985; in Metaworlds, ed. Paul Collins, Penguin 1994)

`Resurrection' (Asimov's, August 1984)

`Coming Back' (Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1982; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF, presented by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin, Coronet 1993)

`Thy Sting' (Omni, June 1987)

`The Ballard of Bowsprit Bear's Stead' (Edges, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd, Pocket Books, 1980)

`The Drover's Wife's Dog' (Mattoid 24, Deakin University, 1986)

`A Passage In Earth' (Rooms of Paradise, ed. Lee Harding, Quartet 1978; as `Reis naar de Aarde', in Top SF 1, ed. Josh Pachter, Bruna, Amsterdam, 1986)

`The Writeable Text' (Age Monthly Review, August 1988)

`The Magi' (Perpetual Light, ed. Alan Ryan, Warner Books 1982; in Alien Shores, ed. Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch, Aphelion, 1994)

Other short fiction

'Walk Like a Mountain' (first fiction publication, non-sf religious story, in Australian Messenger of the Sacred Heart, August 1963, pp. 480-3)

`The Sea's Furthest End', (New Writings in SF 1, ed. John Carnell, Dobson hc 1964; Corgi UK pb 1964, with name given as `Damien Broserick' on cover; Bantam April 1966; as `El fin de los mares lejanos' in El Secreto del Caos y Otros Relatos, E.D.H.A.S.A. Barcelona, June 1967)

`Fulfilment IV', Chaos 1964 (incorporated in Striped Holes)

'Say it with R.O.S.E.S.' (Everybody's, October 20, 1965; incorporated in The Sea's Furthest End, 1993)

`Exorcism/1966', (MAN, June 1966)

`Taming of the Truth Machine' (MAN, July 1967)

'Incubation of the End' (with John Romeril, and as `by John Romeril', MAN August 1967; as `Incubation' in Vision of Tomorrow, February 1970 as `by Damien Broderick')

`A Very Special Kind of Man' (MAN, November 1967; incorporated into The Judas Mandala, 1982)

`A Nourishment of Blood and Pain' (as by `Jack Harding', MAN, July 1969, incorporated into The Dreaming Dragons)

`The Final Weapon' (MAN, December 1969, incorporated into The Dreaming Dragons)

`The Mutants of Man's Dream' (Man, 19? , as by `Iago Yarrick'; as `The Star Mutants', in Vision of Tomorrow, March 1970; incorporated into The Dreaming Dragons)

`Prison World' (as by `Roger Delany', MAN July 1971, incorporated into Striped Holes)

`Initiation' (as by `Edgar Grieve', MAN July 1971, incorporated into The Judas Mandala)

`Mate in Three' (as by Horace West, MAN, December 1972, incorporated into Striped Holes)

`Symbol of the Serpent' (as by `Philip Jenkins', MAN, January 1973 - associated with work-in-progress toward The Dreaming Dragons)

`Growing Up', Galileo, No. 1, 1976, pp. 53-61 (extract from The Judas Mandala)

`Foundations of Empire' (extract from Valencies,Nation Review, 12-18 January 1978, p. 23)

`The Gestalt machine' (extract from work in progress [The Dreaming Dragons] in Tharunka, May 23-30, 1978?)

`Drowning in Fire' (in Dreamworks, ed. David King, Norstrilia 1983)

`I Lost my Love to the Space Shuttle Columbia' (Amazing, March 1983; in Transgressions: Australian Writing Now, ed. Don Anderson, Penguin 1986; incorporated cut-up as `A Dog's Wife' in Transmitters; in Dogtales! ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, Ace 1988)

`The Interior: A Tale of Outback Rapture', in Strange Attractors, ed. Damien Broderick 1985; a revision of `Fulfilment II', Chaos, 1964

`The Sea's Nearest Shore', Aurealis 2, 1990, pp. 17-30 (extract from The Sea's Furthest End)

`Billennium', in Millennium, Penguin 1991, ed. Helen Daniel; a revision of `Fulfilment', Chaos, 1964

`The Role of the Observer in Quantum Theory', Microstories, ed. Rosemary Sorensen, Angus & Robertson 1993, pp. 60-63 (adapted from Zones)

`Schrödinger's Dog', Eidolon 22/23, 1996, pp. 101-127; reprinted in Gardner Dozois, The Year’s Best Science Fiction 14(1997) and Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne, The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy(1997).

'Infinite Monkey’, Eidolon 29/30, 2000.

Articles

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 2nd edition, 1993: `Postmodernism and SF'.
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