Review
"These bibliographies alone make the book a must purchase for any library with serious holdings in either science fiction or Australian literature....Readers interested in nineteenth -century fantastic literature will find Strange Constellations particularly valuable....Strange Constellations is as good a work of literary history as one could wish for....[C]oncise, judicious in its appraisal of the writers under consideration...clearly written."-Science Fiction Studies
Review
“[A]n excellent and useful book....This is one of the best titles Greenwood has published, and ...it's worth adding to your reference library.”–
Science Fiction Chronicle“These bibliographies alone make the book a must purchase for any library with serious holdings in either science fiction or Australian literature....Readers interested in nineteenth -century fantastic literature will find Strange Constellations particularly valuable....Strange Constellations is as good a work of literary history as one could wish for....[C]oncise, judicious in its appraisal of the writers under consideration...clearly written.”–
Science Fiction Studies“Blackford, Ikin and McMullen, noted editors and authors in their own right, have produced a long needed critical overview of Australian SF - a genre much neglected in the official literary histories.”–
University Librarian“Strange Constellations inspires reflections on the nature of what it means to speak out of a place, and the multiple relationships to nation, history, and racial and gender identities.”–
Paradoxa“strange Constellations is also invaluable.”–
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