Simon Petrie: 10 books

Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed...

To solve the mystery of the Bougainvillaea's disappearance, investigator/pilot Charmain Mertz must return to the conservative world of her boyhood. Flight 404 is a novella blending elements of SF, murder mystery, and transgender fiction.

Light levels are low. It's killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected. The icy landscape around you—hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an opaque, lowering sky—wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber, puddled with drifts...

Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why. This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society...

Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift. The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift. All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is...

Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our third annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field today. ‘In the Slip’ by Emillie Colyer - O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as...

Next suggests ‘change’, perhaps, but it doesn’t have to invoke change, it can simply be an account of cause-and-effect. Soemtimes it’s the absence of change, the sense of inevitability, that gives the story its terrible power and its resonance. Or it might be a rite-of-passage; of invention...

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.

Dodging flying chairs, wrestling screaming, abusive children and dealing with angry parents. This is part of the daily fare for Hugo Walker who fights crime and violence every day. His beat is not the cruel streets but the classrooms, corridors and playgrounds of Kookaburra Primary School....