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Monthly Archives: April 2022
The Diverse Short Stories of Rivqa Rafael
written by Sevgi Osman The author Rivqa Rafael was introduced to me at an event about Jewish Australian Speculative Fiction and since then, I wanted to read some of her short stories. She mainly writes short speculative fiction about queer … Continue reading
Tagged Speculative Australia
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H20: An Australian Fantasy series
by Valmire Shala Fantasy is usually understood as a situation that one enjoys thinking about but that is unlikely to happen OR a story or type of literature that describes situations that are very different from real life and more … Continue reading
“Mad Max: Fury Road”: A movie about female emancipation and feminism
by Adesua Atamah At first glance the Australian movie Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller seems to be a stereotypical action movie; wild car chases, burning gasoline tanks, and deadly car crashes. But when you move your focus towards … Continue reading
Posted in Utopia & Dystopia
Tagged female emancipation, feminism, film review, Mad Max, Speculative Australia
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Crikey! Australian Voices in Borderlands The Pre-sequel
by Danny Tran “Hello hello? Thought you were salvage, you are about to die!” Following the action-packed opening mission and violently crash landing on the moon of Concordia, Borderlands The Pre-sequel, with its bizarre but strangely amusing name, opens up … Continue reading
Cargo (2017): A new take on traditional Zombie Movies
by Ben Königsfeld Cargo is originally a horror short film released in 2013 by Yolanda Romke and Ben Howling. It is seven minutes long and deals with a father who was infected with a zombie virus after getting bitten by … Continue reading
Posted in Gothic & Horror
Tagged Aboriginal representation, Cargo, Martin Freeman, movie review, Speculative Australia, zombies
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The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf – A Book Review
by Nadja Marek “You can’t transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.” (Kwaymullina 190) As a person who genuinely enjoys dystopian novels, I have encountered many novels that involve the same aspects of this genre. … Continue reading
H2O: Just Add Water and myth of mermaids in Australia
by Lisa-Marie Richter Rewatching H20: Just Add Water a couple of weeks ago, I started to wonder whether it is insome ways connected to the myth of mermaids living in Australia – considering that it is an Australian children’s show … Continue reading
A response to Transient by Kelly Joseph
A woman who is stranded in the United States, where she was seeking adventures but is increasingly feeling homesick. Never able to fully arrive in this country the woman wanders through the streets of New York one day until she … Continue reading
The Mysterious Success of Australian Sci-Fi Kids Shows
Growing up watching Australian TV shows and movies, we – that is, my generation and before, who were watching a surprising amount of Australian content – unintentionally developed a picture of Australia. A lot of water, beaches and the sea, … Continue reading