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Category Archives: Speculative Australia
Picnic at Hanging Rock – A spoiler free introduction to an Australian Gothic classic
Over the course of this semester, we have talked about a lot of Australian media, be they novels, short stories or short movies. Since the semester is ending, I find it only fitting to go out with a bang and … Continue reading
Sleepless by Jay Kristoff
Foreshadowing and Analysis By Mara Geißen and Laura Himmelmann Sleepless by Jay Kristoff, is a short Australian horror story and part of the book Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, released in 2015. The plot revolves around a man who is … Continue reading
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Modern-day Australia Meets Old India
the underrated show that is The Elephant Princess Imagine you are 16 years old again, what did you struggle with? School, perhaps or a crush. But can you imagine a giant elephant appears out of thin air in your backyard … Continue reading
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Horror and Ghost
by anonymous Some things are scary. It can be the unknown in a dark alley, an old doll at a flea market, some irremovable stains, or simply the monsters under our beds. Sometimes it’s not physical, but only some unreasonable … Continue reading
Pat Grant’s “Blue” – A Reading Diary
by Jo Hoffs Pat Grant’s Blue is a graphic novel about surfing, about community, about migration and conservatism. First and foremost, it is a story about xenophobia, and about a blue alien race migrating to the fictional town of Bolton. … Continue reading
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Human Beings Playing God
by Mara Geißen My first intuition about a book titled Ghost Species was that it would be about ghosts in some way. However, it is not about the living dead haunting somewhere, but much more excitingly about the re-creation of … Continue reading
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Ghost Species – about the Fallacies of Capitalism
by anonymous The Australian novel Ghost Species by James Bradley talks extensively about the nature of human life, nature vs. nurture, finding your place in the world, etc. Underlying its positive messages to these topics is a frankly horrifying depiction … Continue reading
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Let’s speculate about de-extinction!
James Bradley’s novel Ghost Species is part of the genre of Australian speculative fiction. A main topic of his speculations is based on the de-extinction of extinct species such as the thylacines (also known as the Tasmanian tiger or wolf), … Continue reading
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How not to Shape the Future
by anonymous The question of whether reproduction is still a morally responsible thing to do has been a highly debated topic which has recently even expanded onto the mainstream discourse. The predominant approaches we’ve seen are firstly the assumption that … Continue reading
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Davis and his God Complex
by Janine Braune While reading Ghost Species, one character in particular caught my eye, Davis. Let me give you a short introduction, to who Davis is. Davis Hucken is a white male in his thirties with a slim figure and … Continue reading
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