Australian sci-fi

>>8601724
Greg Egan is better cyberpunk than Gibson
Dunno about others.

>>8601724
Greg Egan is pretty much the only Australian SF writer to have been published consistently.

people mention Cordwainer Smith but he wasn't born there - he just spent some time there and wrote about sheep farmers in space sometimes.

Nikolai Kingsley doesn't count, 'cause he mostly writes porn.

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Also it's difficult to classify something as "Australian SF". is it any SF written by an Australian? any SF with Australian themes? what are they? is that where an astronaut has corks dangling from the brim of his space helmet?

Aborigines in space? that's the sort of thing a writer might throw in if they were desperate to make a sharp contrast, and then they'd be condemned for USING native Australians as some kind of standard for primitive behavior.

It's possible to point to American SF as the pulp tradition, space opera, etc, and to British SF as the more considered work of Wells and later the experimental work of Aldiss and Moorcock, but after that it's hard to say "this is Japanese SF" or "this is Australian SF" because there isn't any particular characteristic that you could use to identify it.

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I've got an Australian dick for you mate

>>8602695
yew must be from fucken Sydney amirite? whyncha wander down to the beach, step on a syringe and die?

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>>8602556
>Nikolai Kingsley doesn't count, 'cause he mostly writes porn.


Flooze? is that you?

>>8602571
Honestly there's barely any "Australian literature" in the first place.
We've got the bush poets, but they're mostly sentimental dipshits.
Patrick White
Maybe Tsiolkas and Winton.
"Australian themes" tend to be mostly about emotionally stunted people fucking about in inhospitable environments, maybe with a side of egalitarianism and class friction.

>>8601724
Good Australian literature is already hard enough to find. Why limit yourself to a specific genre?

>sci fi
>sneaking suspicion its going to be dog-shit

what a brave guess

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>>8603146
>>8603143

Because I'm writing an Australian sci-fi and I want to check out the competition. Looks like I'm going to have no problems sweeping up the field. Vogel here I come

Also its not about the bush or aborigines or any of that gay shit

>>8602556
> sheep farmers in space sometimes
that's seriously misrepresenting Smith's oeuvre, he was one of the most inventive and most poetic writers in sf (90% of it is shit anyway, but nonetheless)

>>8603214
>not writing about the quest for space VB

>>8603143

Winton is comfy sometimes but there's nothing important about him at all.

And our lit mags are full of tranny propaganda and more or less published by the same social group of numales and feminists.

>>8603227
>the setting: a futuristic TV station
>the occasion: the biggest TV event in the history of mankind
>5 pilots
>in 5 space ships
>with 5 planet-strong tractor beams
>playing
>space wheel of goon
>THE event of mankind's history
>each planet of the solar system has a goonbag attached
>the tractor beams are used to speed up the planets and if mercury stops in front of you ya gotta drink
>the pilot who first throws up in his space ship wins

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>>8601724
Neville Shute's On the Beach is probably the whitest post-apocalyptic book ever, but he was from Britain originally so I don't know if you'd count him.

>>8603214
Look up your national sci-fi rags you jibbering desert idiot. The places youll publish your stories. That's your competition.

>>8603299
I love that book so much, 'the whitest' is an apt description

Stiff upper lip, the world is ending, let's get on it chaps: we'll have old-timey cocktails, race our expensive cars and wait for the end, as the queen would have wanted it.

>>8601724
/pol/ is literal 'strayan scifi. Just read their posts there.