![]() ![]() As well as using the cream of Australia's SF writers, we plan to include some of our best thinkers from outside the genre to speculate on Australia's future. Vend-a-Nation will ask that writers use the notion of a future Australian republic as central to their story. Despite Keating's preferred model, all the options are open and all the options can become a reality. Vend-a-Nation The Futures of the Australian Republic will present the best of Australia's speculative writers giving their visions of future Australia. ![]() I hesitate to use such cliches as "bold" and "exciting" but our new anthology will be different. So what of Australia? In these times of republican debate, new millennium and burgeoning technological change, what are the possible futures of Australia?Ĭhimaera Publications are pleased to announce a new project which will be published in conjunction with a major Australian publisher. This speculation can, of itself, determine the shape of things to come to borrow a phrase. It demands that the author creates a plausible future world, and in doing so, forces the author to speculate on a range of issues. ![]() ? Well, that is what we are about to find out.Īs has been pointed out numerous times, SF is obviously and demonstrably the ideal vehicle for speculating upon the future of human society. Huxley and gene manipulation, Verne and Lunar landings, Wells and societal change. ![]()
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