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Gillian Polack

Polack, Gillian S.

April 25, 1961 (age 65)

Birth place: Kew, Melbourne, Australia

52 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
October 2004 112 Essay Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #15, October/November 2004
October 2004 127 Review Illuminations Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #15, October/November 2004
December 2004 118 Essay Ten Things That Only Belong in a Speculative Fiction Novel When Placed There Carefully with Intent to Murder Medieval History Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #16, December 2004/January 2005
February 2005 21 Short Fiction Impractical Magic Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #17, February/March 2005
2006 26 Short Fiction Horrible Historians Subterranean, Issue #4
April 2007 84 Interview The Art of Balance - Interview with Trudi Canavan Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #28
August 2012 Review Ms Cellophane Aurealis, #53
2013 12 Essay Dialogue and Doomsday: Comedy and Conviction in Connie Willis and Oscar Wilde Vector 273 Autumn
2015 Essay Australian Speculative Fiction and the Land: Culture and Ownership Holdfast, #5
2015 44 Review Langue [dot] doc 1305 Vector 280 Summer
July 2015 |22 Essay Old North Australia and New South Australia: The Work of Paul Linebarger Aurealis, #82
July 2015 |44 Review The Art of Effective Dreaming Aurealis, #82
October 2015 |8 Essay Life and Death in Small Things Aurealis, #85
February 2016 |21 Essay Sky Politics: Nevil Shute's In the Wet Aurealis, #87
February 2016 |31 Review The Time of the Ghosts Aurealis, #87
May 2016 |2 Essay Another Letter to Tiptree Strange Horizons, 16 May 2016
July 2016 Essay Early Australian Fantasy: Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding Aurealis, #92
July 2016 Review The Magic Pudding Aurealis, #92
September 2016 |6 Essay Brumby Adventures in Space: The Science Fiction of Mary Elwyn Patchett Aurealis, #94
February 2017 |6 Essay Cherry Wilder and the Story of Australian Speculative Fiction Aurealis, February 2017
April 2017 |5 Essay Creating Our Own Stories: Cusack, Kiddle and Chauncey Aurealis, April 2017
July 2017 |2 Interview Science Fiction in the Antipodes: An Australian Speculative Fiction Roundtable Strange Horizons, 24 July 2017
July 2017 |5 Essay The Case of the Trashy, Tripey Novel with a Marxist Slant: M. Barnard Eldershaw and Science Fiction Aurealis, July 2017
September 2017 |5 Essay Visiting Australia and Creating Borderlands: James Hume Nisbet and His Distant Shores Aurealis, September 2017
November 2017 |5 Essay One Name, Two Writers: John Lang, John Lang and Speculative Fiction Aurealis, November 2017
February 2018 |5 Essay The Development of a Ghost: John Fisher and Australia's Ghost Stories Aurealis, February 2018
April 2018 |5 Essay As Good as Poe. No, Better: Colonial Gothic in the Hands of Marcus Clarke Aurealis, April 2018
July 2018 |6 Essay The Guardian: A Tale by an Australian Aurealis, July 2018
September 2018 |5 Essay The Gothic Trail: The Guardian's Place in Australian Gothic Tradition Aurealis, September 2018
October 2018 |5 Essay What We Take for Granted: The Australian Fantastical Imagination and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Aurealis, October 2018
March 2019 Essay John Lang and the Hidden Aurealis, March 2019
May 2019 Essay Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas From?—Mr Cole and His Funny Picture Books Aurealis, May 2019
July 2019 Essay Rosa Praed, Fugitive Anne, A Romance of the Unexplored Bush, Including the Unexpected Wrath of Ka Aurealis, July 2019
September 2019 Essay "Naggah, naggah, oom-moo-hah" — G. Firth Scott and Lemuria Aurealis, September 2019
November 2019 Essay "If you are under eighteen years old, close this book." — Henrietta Dugdale, the Suffrage and Science Fiction Aurealis, November 2019
March 2020 Essay An Introduction to Australian Timeslip Novels Aurealis, March 2020
May 2020 Essay True Gothic: The Case of the Demon Bushranger Aurealis, May 2020
August 2020 Essay Ernest Favenc: Racism, Literary Games and a Touch of the Speculative Aurealis, August 2020
October 2020 |6 Essay Barbara Baynton and the Horror of Women's Lives Aurealis, October 2020
August 2021 Essay Using the Anthropocene to Reinterpret the Importance of Lost Race Novels in Early Australian SF Aurealis, August 2021
November 2021 |7 Essay An Introduction to World-Building in Early Australian Speculative Fiction Aurealis, November 2021
March 2022 Essay The World of Out of Silence by Erle Cox Aurealis, March 2022
May 2022 Essay The World of The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance, by G Firth Scott Aurealis, May 2022
July 2022 Essay How to Build a World for Gothic Adventure: The Case of Fugitive Anne Aurealis, July 2022
September 2022 Essay Thinking About the Void Aurealis, September 2022
November 2022 Essay Ernest Favenc's White World in The Secret of the Australian Desert Aurealis, November 2022
July 2023 Essay Winifred Law's Lost Adventures Aurealis, July 2023
September 2023 Essay An Introduction to Dr. Nikola, Guy Boothby's Infamous Invention Aurealis, September 2023
November 2023 Essay George Isaacs and the Burlesque of Frankenstein Aurealis, November 2023
June 2024 Essay "A Thing Called the Glugs of Gosh"—C J Dennis and Satirical Fantasy Aurealis, June 2024
August 2024 Essay Mary Ann Moore-Bentley: The Politics of Early Australian Science Fiction Aurealis, August 2024
October 2024 Essay The Adventures of Simon Black Aurealis, October 2024
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August 2019 Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon Urban Fantasy