31 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: Italy
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This week’s essay for my Coursera Course got a 5. W00t :) Beatrice, Beatrice, let down your hair. Giovanni is not a pregnant woman, but his longing looks[1] into the enclosed garden next door echo the desires that resulted in … Continue reading
26 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: 1880s, Pacific islands
8 Stars
7 Comments
Read/Download for free from The University of Adelaide Read for Coursera Sci-Fi course & for RIP VII After his death the nephew of a Mr. Edward Prendick found a strange account among his papers. It was known that Prendick had … Continue reading
25 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff
Setting: alien
8 Stars
2 Comments
Lixia has just landed on an alien planet. Humanity have come exploring the stars, with high-minded ideals, and rules about what action should be taken depending on how advanced the peoples they meet are. Nia has grown up among the … Continue reading
25 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: Italy
6 Stars
6 Comments
Giovanni moves to a new city, and finds that his apartment overlooks an enclosed garden where beautiful flowers grow. And a beautiful woman tends to them. She is Beatrice, the daughter of Rappaccini. But a friend of his father, Baglioni, … Continue reading
24 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
4 Stars
3 Comments
This is the story of a scientist who falls in love and marries. But his wife, although beautiful, has a flaw. A birthmark in the shape of a small red hand upon her cheek. Unluckily for her she is very … Continue reading
22 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: Juv/YA, sff
Setting: Celtic world, Thisby
9 Stars
3 Comments
Near the village of Thisby on the island of Skarmouth lives Puck Connolly her two brothers. Her parents were killed a few years back, they went out on the boat fishing and the capaill uisce got them. And what, you … Continue reading
21 August 2012
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Like an eejit I missed my deadline for my Coursera yoke today. I had a rough draft written at lunch and should have submitted it then, but thought I’d have time to polish by the time I got home. Well, … Continue reading
Just as with Dracula most of us are familiar with the story of Frankenstein and his creation, even if popular culture often refers to the monster by that name. It probably suffers a little because so many of us think … Continue reading
15 August 2012
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I almost forgot to post my Coursera essay on Dracula but y’all are in luck, because I have remembered: Fear of the East, of the eastern “barbarians” was a contemporary issue in Victorian England. Dracula can be seen as that … Continue reading
15 August 2012
Call no: 800
Genre: sff, short stories
Setting: 1980s, Australia
8 Stars
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Vanessa works in a roadhouse in an isolated part of Australia. When we first meet her we don’t know why exactly she’s out there, she says she just wants to save some money and then maybe travel. That isn’t all … Continue reading
