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Professor, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

Academic at UWA since 1980, teaching Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
Editor/Publisher of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature 1977 to present.
Science fiction reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald for 25 years, 1983-2010.
1992: Awarded the inaugural A. Bertram Chandler Award for achievement in the field of Australian science fiction
2018: Peter McNamara Award for lifetime achievement in the field of science fiction and fantasy
Chief book publications:
(Editor). Australian Science Fiction (1982)
(Editor - with Terry Dowling). Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF (1993)
(with Russell Blackford and Sean McMullen). Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction(1999)
(Editor – with Damien Broderick). Xeno Fiction (2013)
(Editor – with Damien Broderick). Other Spacetimes: Interviews with Speculative Fiction Writers (2015)

Experience

  • –present
    Professor, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
  • 1980–present
    Professor, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

Education

  • 1979 
    University of Sydney, PhD
  • 1974 
    University of Sydney, BA (Hons)

Publications

  • 2015
    Other Spacetimes: Interviews with Speculative Fiction Writers, Wildside Press
  • 2014
    Fantastika: At the Edge of Reality, Wildside Press
  • 2013
    Xeno Fiction, Borgo Press
  • 2011
    Warriors of the Tao: The Best of Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, Borgo Press
  • 1999
    Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, Greenwood Press
  • 1993
    Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF, Hooder and Stoughton
  • 1990
    Glass Reptile Breakout and other Australian Speculative Stories, Centre for Studies in Australian Literature
  • 1982
    Australian Science Fiction, University of Qld Press

Honours

Inaugural A. Bertram Chandler Award for achievement in the field of Australian science fiction (1992)