AN ANTHOLOGY  edited by Steve Proposch & Christopher Sequeira
PUBLICATION DATE  November 2024
COVER ART  Ilan Sheady
INTRODUCTION John Birmingham
PAGES 310
ISBN  978-1-8039-494-4

EDITION
Paperback

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Time Machine: The incredible conveyance invented in H. G. Wells’ astounding ‘futurific’ novel that was both exultation and lament of man’s potential to either use or misuse science that has captured imaginations for over a century.
But what if the geomagnetic convergences that created the Australian continent were actually enough to power a real, working time machine? A device that thus only worked on Australian soil; to bounce through the timestream?
Join an assembly of Australia’s greatest writers of speculative fiction to find out, as they tell narratives of joy, of sadness, or of horror around this concept, and we follow various denizens of Down Under to destinies both Forward and to the Past.
Witness, with astonishment, as the landmass that, historically, observers called the ‘land beyond time’ now truly lives up to the title.

CONTENTS

• Introduction — John Birmingham
• Prologue: Wild Time Unseen — Christopher Sequeira
• The Future Child — Angela Meyer
• Hope and Opportunity — Lucy Sussex
• Time Laps — Kaaron Warren
• No Paradox —  Jason Franks
• Two-Thirds of the Truth — Carmel Bird
• Souvenir — Narrelle M. Harris
• The Chronic Argonaut — Dmetri Kakmi
• Mordor Sou—  Webb
• On Alien Land — Robert Hood
• The Lost Library — Bryce Stevens
• Slippery Hunt’s Big Score — Alan Baxter
• His Scream Shall Last Millennia — Bill Congreve
• Vector Four — Alf Simpson
• Beasts of Bone and —  Cat Sparks
• Finding Utopia — Gerry Huntman
• Sahul Dreaming —  Raymond Gates