Issue #1 – Spring 1998 – Angel of The Abyss – TABLE OF CONTENTS
FICTION
Ethel and Her Cross-eyed Typing – In RENO NEVADA’s oddball world of office politics, where incompetence and apathy reign supreme, only innocence can save you. Art by Nick Howlett.
Flight Path – Alien abduction or sexual fantasy? As SYMON BRANDO reminds us, the mind is a terrible place indeed. Art by Nick Howlett.
The Great Lakes – GRAEME USSHER went in search of the real America, but found only layers of mystery. Art by Nick Howlett.
Chariot of Fire: Preliminary Analysis and Damage Reconstruction of the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales – A brutal post-modern, post-mortem hatchet job on one of the great myths of this century. By ANDRES VACCARI, art by NICK HOWLETT.
FEATURES
Borges in Mars: Jorge Luis Borges’ lost introduction to Martian Chronicles – For the first time in English, one of the century’s greatest writers explores a science-fiction classic. Translated by ANDRES VACCARI
Ulysses is Computer – What do Star Trek and Homer’s Odyssey have in common? For HAMISH FORD, both reflect a shift in the dialectics of knowledge and technology.
While You Were Dreaming – Dreaming is like dying every night. In this dissolution lies one the great horrors of the self. An essay on Milan Kundera’s Identity, by ELIZABETH POWELL.
Mortuary: The Work of David Haines – David Haines’ haunting creations explore some of the mechanics of language through video and computer-generated graphics. By ANNE FINEGAN.
Bim & Pam (Cartoon) – By ANDRES VACCARI
POETRY – Sea Dream / Stonetown by Ned Matijasevic
REVIEWS – by ANDRES VACCARI – The Resurrected Man By Sean Williams. The Land of the Golden Clouds By Archie Weller. Living at the End of the World By Marina Benjamin. Disco 2000 Sarah Champion, ed. Quicker Than The Eye By Ray Bradbury.
Issue #2 – Autumn 1999 – Earth is The Alien Planet – TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial / Table of Contents
FICTION
The Parallax Garden – GEOFFREY MALONEY serves up an uneasy tale of alienation, displacement and bad TV reception. Dedicated to all those who feel they do not belong. Art by Rully Zakaria.
Over The Hump – They seek warmth in the collective mind, in the blind and self-effacing amassing of bodies. But the boy is different, because he knows there is a world beyond the Hump. JOHN KILBEY weaves a strange and hallucinatory coming-of-age tale. Art by David Fode.
A Length of Scarlet Silk – She would be the hands the great humming machines lacked. She would love the machines as her family, and in return they would shelter and protect her. Until a man from the outside arrives to remind her she is still a girl. Still human… By LYN McCONCHIE. Art by Andres Vaccari.
New Map of Hell – Flight, memory, technology. How many moments are contained in a moment? SYMON BRANDO explores the forces that shape our existence, while spending too much time at the airport. Art by Nick Howlett.
FEATURES
Voices – GEORGE ALEXANDER writes on water and descends into the centre of the earth. Musings on the universes reflected by the art of DENIS MIZZI.
The Art of Dreaming – JACK DANN talks to Abaddon about the making of imaginary cathedrals. An extensive interview with this remarkable writer, plus a complete bibliography.
Love and the Great Dark – ANDRES VACCARI explores Jack Dann’s most recent work.
Millennial Anxiety and the Event-Film – By HAMISH FORD. Our resident cinema analyst gets stuck into the megalomaniac logic of the Event Film.
POETRY – Lamentations / Gone with the Wind By Cathy Buburuz. Night Cars By Kyla Ward. Gush By Ariel Riveros. Tunnel Vision / Body Language By Kerry Ridgway. Time is Now By Ned Matijasevic. Siren By 481.
REVIEWS – By ANDRES VACCARI – Dreaming Down Under By Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (Eds.). The Football Factory By John King. How We Became Post-Human By N. Katherine Hayles. The Forest of Hours By Kerstin Ekman. Pig Tales By Marie Darrieussecq.
RETROSPECTO – By ANDRES VACCARI. They Live (1988) Dir. John Carpenter
Issue #3 – Autumn 2000 – Everything You Know Is Wrong
Editorial / Table of Contents
FICTION
The Edithing – When he was sent to record the strange and mutant world beyond the City, something told him he would never return. By VIRGINIA O’CARRICK. Art by Andres Vaccari.
The Picture – Two lovers undertake separate, yet parallel journeys through a landscape teeming with mythical and surreal events. By DOA KARAN. Art by Rully Zakaria.
The Passenger – Some loves are impossible, but that would not stop him from trying. A macabre love story by HOLLY DAY. Art by Peter Savieri.
Catalogue – Welcome to the shopping mall from Hell. NED MATIJASEVIC confronts what lies behind consumer desire. Art & Layout by Nick Howlett.
FEATURES
A Psycho-Geographical Tour of Melbourne – A city is a complex crystallization of dream and thought, where the unconscious dwells in abandoned spaces. Text by SIMON SELLARS. Photographs by MICHAEL SHAW.
The Imp of the Perverse – Edgar A. Poe is unanimously hailed as the master of Gothic Horror. In this essay, DMETRI KAKMI analyses the perennial and contradictory figure of the female in Poe’s fiction and poetry. Art by Dave Fode.
Future Unimaginable – An interview with DAMIEN BRODERICK, polymath extraordinaire, and author of The White Abacus and The Last Mortal Generation. Photos by Mark Thomas
A Bluffer’s Guide to Rotating Tetrahedra in your Head – In this whimsical autobiographical piece, DAMIEN BRODERICK examines the role of visualisation in fiction.
Saturn Returns – NORMAN TALBOT reviews the history and many incarnations of the god Saturn.
RETROSPECTO – By SIMON SELLARS: La Jetee”(1963). Directed by Chris Marker.
POETRY – X By Justin Lowe. The Surfacycle By Alex Wisser. Careful By Shona Hawkes. Centuries By Paul Hardacre. Glory! By Alice Rae.
REVIEWS – By ANDRES VACCARI – Dream/Life By Trent Parke. The Book of Changes By Norman Talbot. Paintings by John Montefiore.