Michael Pryor: 47 books

Leo da Vinci and his team at Fixit International Inc. are on the alert for supervillain activity. The latest threat? The Furniture Overlord wants to conquer the world . . . by turning every chair, every desk, every sofa into a killer weapon that he controls. Panic stations, everyone! The...

Help! The Ice-cream Domination League is blowing up the world's ice-cream factories! Enter Leo da Vinci. Inventor, artist, genius and founder of Fixit International Inc., all at the age of ten. His team? Meet steam-powered Isaac, maths whiz and wise-cracking pig Ragnar, and Mina from...

Aurealis #72 features the testing and touching ‘Age’ from Ashlee Jade and the tough and turbulent ‘Ballard and Ballard: A Biopunk Detective Tale of 2080 AD’ from Steven Ma. Shane M Brown offers some salient advice with ‘The Pitfalls of Self-Publishing’. With some of the most searching...

Aurealis #66 delivers a double punch of shivers with a little touch of Australian Gothic in ‘The Sheep King’ from Chris Stabback and the unsettling, unnerving ‘Burning Green’ from O.J. Cade. Patricia O’Neill also concludes her fascinating ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’ article with the usual...

Magic, manners, conspiracy and intrigue - yes, it's a Laws of Magic story! Judging a flower arranging competition because your father, the Prime Minister, is busy almost seems like a punishment. But when you're Aubrey Fitzwilliam, magical genius, things rarely go to plan, and the day takes...

Aurealis #111 brings you the exotic and gritty ‘Graft Mage’ by William Broom, the doom laden mystery of ‘The Egg and the Cat’ by Miles Hurt and the subtle and haunting ‘Deserted Lies the City’ by S R Dean. Our top non-fiction includes ‘What Is AfroSF?’ by Eugen Bacon and Mikey Pryvt’s...

Aurealis #65 features Jason Franks' confronting and visceral 'Butcher's Hook', a story you'll never forget, plus the elegant and unnerving 'Poppies' from SF Larner, who says: '‘Poppies’ came about after watching an extremely disturbing incident of violence captured on video and distributed on...

Aurealis #92 features Peter Cooper’s lyrical and poignant ‘The Hush Before Dawn’, LB Spiller’s gripping and tech-savvy ‘Taggant 31’ and Bentley A Reese’s chilling ‘Corpse Eater’. Our top quality non-fiction rollout continues with ‘Early Australian Fantasy: Norman Lindsay’s The...

Aurealis #98 brings you top speculative fiction with the irreverent Wind Farmers from Outer Space by Robert Cox, the eerie When I Tried to go to England by Sarah Hart and the moody Hyter and the House That Stands by Steve Toase. Our non-fiction explores Kafka’s Influence on Spec Fic and a vital...

The first issue in Aurealis' 25th year, Aurealis #77 is a feast of the eerie, the unsettling and the other side of ordinary. 'Like a Boojum' by Simon Petrie takes us to a world where the exotic is familiar and the familiar is not to be trusted. 'The Death of Glinda, the Good Witch' by Rebecca-Anne...

Aurealis #117 features Carolyn Hine’s ‘The Moonstone in the Dust’, J. Ashley Smith’s ‘The Moth Tapes’ and Eric Del Carlo’s ‘She Sells Sea-Hells by the C Door’, plus top non-fiction—‘Worldbuilding: How Climate Zone Determines Culture by Amy Laurens and ‘Comedic Science Fiction:...

Aurealis #81 features horrifyingly plausible fiction from Dann Lewis and shiny tech-punk Mathew Russell, an article from Lachlan Walter and an illuminating interview with the writer of the moment, John Scalzi. Plus all of the insightful reviews and news you need to know. Enough quality reading to last all the way through until the release of Issue 82!

Aurealis #106 features the poignant and melancholy ‘In Cinematic Terms’ by Brianna Bullen, the powerful ‘The Sylkies’ by Henry Gasko and the entertainingly creepy ‘Howling Mad’ by Kris Ashton, as well as non-fiction from Gillian Polack and Chris Large’s interview with C S Pacat plus the latest in reviews.

The best in Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, featuring 'Betrayal' by Marta Salek, an exotic and magical tale of elsewhere, and the coolly stylish 'Catspaw' by James Bradley. Plus the best news, reviews, and interviews in the world of Australian Speculative Fiction. Miss it not.