Death at the Blue Elephant is the first story collection by the respected and multiple award winning Australian writer and editor Janeen Webb. he is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Australian Aurealis Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ditmar Award. In her introduction to this book, Pamela Sargent describes these stories as evoking a "combination of suspenseful anticipation, nervous apprehension, and total absorption in something far removed from my own experience." Death at the Blue Elephant collects 18 incredible globe-spanning visions by the self-confessed 'inveterate traveller'. Five stories are original to this collection.
Speculative fiction collection offering 14 short stories by Australian and New Zealand authors: Stephen Dedman, Dirk Flinthart, Dave Freer, Michelle Goldsmith, Alex Isle, Lyn McConchie, Claire McKenna, Charlotte Nash, Ian Nichols, Leife Shallcross, Grant Stone, Douglas A Van Belle, Janeen Webb, M Darusha Wehm
Cyn's friend, Megan, steals the genie's bottle, which contains the summoning ring. She summons the genie and demands three wishes. Sinbad responds to this treachery by granting Megan negative wishes. When Megan finds herself abandoned on Circe's Island, it is up to Cyn to use one of her wishes to rescue her... This story is intended for ages 11+.
Ecopunk! Speculative Tales of Radical Futures examines how humanity might cope with dramatic changes in nature, and adjust to new versions of normal. Ecopunk! shares stories in which the human race embraces these changes, using innovative technologies and fresh attitudes to make our emerging world sustainable. These 19 stories explore meteorological, agricultural and biological technologies, alternative histories, arcologies and communes, the beauty in flooded cities, innovations in cross-continental travel, animals on the verge of extinction, androids, reality tv shows, new food sources, environmental refugees, blurring the divide between humans and animals, and above all, friendship, family and love.
Cynthia is an ace windsurfer. Nobody can keep up with her until she meets the genie, who appears out of a bottle with the promise of three wishes. She announces that her first wish is to 'sail the seven seas'. The genie, who turns out to be King Sinbad of Baghdad, offers to be her companion. This book is intended for ages, 10 and over.
Created especially for kids who don't like to read, the series includes science fiction, horror, fantasy, adventure, and ghost stories-a great introduction to genre study.
Teachers resource book focusing on Australian children's literature and offering creating ideas for integrating literature into all aspects of classroom programmes.
This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.S. policy, addressing why former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s famous description of the Vietnam War as the “social scientist’s war” is so accurate. By tracing the evolution of ties between social scientists and the government beginning in World War I and continuing through the Second World War and the early Cold War, the narrative highlights the role of institutions like the RAND Corporation, the Social Science Research Council and MIT’s Center for International Studies that facilitate these ties while providing a home for the development of theory. The author compares and contrasts the ideas of Bernard Brodie, Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Schelling, Gabriel Almond, Lucian Pye and Walt Rostow, among others, and offers a cautionary tale concerning the difficulties and problems encountered when applying social science theory to national security policy.
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