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A Passage In Earth [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Roger Zelazny in the Foreword to Rooms of Paradise: 'A Passage in Earth', in addition to possessing an intriguing and engaging narrator, is one of those stories where things implied are as important as things stated, and the tone of the piece is such as to show that the author actually has a larger vision containing the events he has chosen to record here. To this extent, this story reminds me of some of the work of the late Cordwainer Smith, and I can only selfishly hope that he returns to this... more info>> (Published: 1978)
Words: 4986 - Reading Time: 14-19 min.
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A Tooth For Every Child [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Mothers across the globe are dying as they give birth to humanoid gargoyles with claws instead of hands and feet--the hideous babies might be caused by an alien virus, toxic DNA, wrath of god ... no one knows for sure. One person seeking revenge is destined to learn the horrible truth. (Published: 1985)
Words: 8574 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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Embarrass My Dog: The Way We Were, the Things We Thought [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Award-winning writer Dr. Damien Broderick gathers his most forthright articles from the 1960s and '70s, on topics ranging from sex, politics, and religion to drugs and the way things were before the Internet, and caps them with sharp insights from today, looking back in amazement--and often with dismay or laughter. Great reading! (Published: 2010)
Words: 84969 - Reading Time: 242-339 min.
Category: General Nonfiction/History
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Human's Burden [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes
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Poor Jack Wong is a clueless cadet at the Unified Space Academy when his pod is stranded on a planet of disgusting aliens. All he wants to do, other than escape, is to fulfill his proud duty to advance Earth Culture's Primary Heuristic: "Wherever possible, find the weak spot in an alien civilization and interfere as much as possible for the benefit of humanity." It's the Human's Burden! But everything comes unstuck, made worse by his irritating Machiavellian AI. And that's just the start of Jack... more info>> (Published: 2010)
Words: 34813 - Reading Time: 99-139 min.
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Infinite Monkey [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Two scientists exchange email messages about a wild idea in quantum mechanics--and things get wilder by the minute. "Hard" SF at its best with mind-blowing ideas and a punch at the end, all in 3400 words. [NOTE: If you previously bought Eidolon Issue 29/30 here at Fictionwise then you already have this story, which was published in that magazine.] (Published: 2000) Aurealis Award Winner
Words: 3402 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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Quipu [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Caroline is about to go psychotic--and with her family, no surprise. Joseph can't talk to women even if he is a certified high IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu world. Quipus? They're the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before blogs were invented. Hikes? High IQ clever dicks, of course. In QUIPU (appear... more info>> (Published: 2009)
Words: 81623 - Reading Time: 233-326 min.
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Schrodinger's Dog [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Scientists exploring the nature of quantum reality by performing cruel experiments on human subjects find much more reality than they've bargained for. (Published: 1996)
Words: 12377 - Reading Time: 35-49 min.
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Striped Holes [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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A Comic Science Fiction Masterpiece! Science fiction that makes you grin, and then laugh out loud, is hard to find. With this very funny short novel, Damien Broderick joined the ranks of Robert Sheckley, Bob Shaw, John Sladek, Arthur Schopenhauer and Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). Sopwith Hammil is a popular but rather stupid TV presenter when a time machine lands in his living room. To save his life and the human race (they're turning the Sun off!), he must find a wife inside... more info>> (Published: 1988) Ditmar Award Winner
Words: 47953 - Reading Time: 137-191 min.
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The Ballad Of Bowsprit Bear's Stead [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Bowsprit Bear's Stead, a time-traveling historian who always wears his lucky bear rug on missions, arrives on an obscure planet to witness the fall of the Galactic Empire. The awful-smelling Neanderthal Emperor and his two argumentative robots absorb his attention while the New Human fleet approaches--but in a twist of fate, he learns that the history of humanity from Earth is not at all what he was thought it was. (Published: 1980)
Words: 16851 - Reading Time: 48-67 min.
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The Black Grail [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Deep in the future, the Sun is guttering out. God-like beings of immense power are trying to keep it alive--by stealing energy from their past. A barbarian warrior from our own post-Holocaust future is caught up by mistake in their wormline, and flung into the world of the Dying Earth. What he finds there will change all of history. (Published: 1986)
Words: 96517 - Reading Time: 275-386 min.
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The Dreaming [Also published as The Dreaming Dragons] [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Respected editor David Pringle selected this work as one of the top 100 science fiction novels of the century! In this story, specially updated for Fictionwise by the author, an anthropologist travels to the central Australian desert to search for the source of an aboriginal myth; he suspects the terrible "Rainbow Serpent" is connected to the sacred Uluru rock formations. The holographic "Gate" he discovers with his nephew explains not just the origin of a legend, but the origin of man, and the ... more info>> (Published: 1980) Year's Best Science Fiction Selection, Ditmar Award Winner, John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee
Words: 74340 - Reading Time: 212-297 min.
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The Game of Stars and Souls [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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This nearly novel-length novella has never before been available in the USA. It tells a sweeping story of far-future interstellar conquests, alternating with scenes of a man being interrogated by aliens in a "hyperdream" state. Highly imaginative and unusual, a great example of Broderick's innovative style.
Words: 39754 - Reading Time: 113-159 min.
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The Hunger of Time [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes
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Technology has started to accelerate at a terrifying rate. By mid 21st century, we might see a Singularity: a convergence of artificial intelligence, advanced nanotechnologies for building things at the atomic scale, precise genomics, other wonders. What happens after that? Will the descendents of today's humanity become gods or demons, or simply destroy themselves? And will we be among their number, carried along by rejuvenation and immortality treatments? For Natalie and her irritatingly beaut... more info>> (Published: 2003)
Words: 82460 - Reading Time: 235-329 min.
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The Judas Mandala [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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The classic that coined 'Virtual Reality'! Maggie Roche is an unemployed poet and single mother in 2009. Before the day's done, she is spied on by a robotic rat, physically attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, then flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Upload Lifeform Lords, who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power, she learns that she is the first true time traveler in history, hunted by friend and foe. More than... more info>> (Published: 1982)
Words: 57364 - Reading Time: 163-229 min.
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The Magi [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Three thousand light years from High Earth, the exiled Jesuit Monastery starship Loyola orbits a world with a puzzling anomaly. Father Raphael Silverman, convert and survivor of the terrible Second Holocaust, finds on its surface a beautiful, empty City with a dreadful secret at its core. His faith has been tested once with the brutal genocide of his people after the Oil Wars, and again with the horrors of the maimed starship Southern Cross. Now it is battered one final time, as he seeks the ans... more info>> (Published: 1982) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 16389 - Reading Time: 46-65 min.
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The White Abacus [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick
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Great science fiction runs on rich fuel. It is propelled by fantastic imagination, forceful style, and a secret ingredient: passion. Damien Broderick's novel The White Abacus goes back to the very source of this century's best writing--to Shakespeare's world of mad love and brilliant language. It plunges us into a universe of conflict and searing revenge. Winner of two Year's Best Novel awards, The White Abacus tears into the future with a compulsive force not seen since Alfred Bester's classic ... more info>> (Published: 1997) Aurealis Award Winner, Ditmar Award Winner
Words: 92784 - Reading Time: 265-371 min.
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Valencies [Also published as Against the Empire] [MultiFormat]
by Damien Broderick, Rory Barnes
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[Publisher Note: Valencies was first published in 1983 by the University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia and appears here in an updated version revised by Damien Broderick especially for Fictionwise.] [Authors' note: This revised edition was launched here in November 2002 under its original working title, Against the Empire. We quickly found this change misled some readers into expecting a rousing space opera in the tradition of 'Doc' Smith or Star Wars, so now we have rein... more info>> (Published: 1983)
Words: 59649 - Reading Time: 170-238 min.
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