Csfg Publishing: 4 books

The Grinding House is the CSFG’s sole single-author collection to date, presenting twenty stories by Kaaron Warren. The original book was edited by CSFG member Donna Maree Hanson, with a cover by Robyn Evans. “Kaaron Warren’s voice is clear, original and sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel....

Australia has its own mythologies. Some of them were here long before Europeans arrived; some of them are yet to come. Steam-powered bushrangers. Restless penal colonies. Robotic mining operations. Fairy colonies in the gum trees and old ghosts in the laneways. Drought and fire and flood...

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...

Change is only ever a breath away. Its arrival may be as swift as a slamming door or as slow as the inevitable march of evolution. It is the unseen madness vibrating through the air, the first spaceship through a manufactured wormhole and the only flying machine that doesn’t run on magic. Join...