Scott Steensma is a writer, librarian and son of a cat fancier from Melbourne.
He has been published in Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways and Antipodean SF and was shortlisted for the 2022 Aurealis science fiction short story award.
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Our weekly podcast features the stories from recently published issues, often narrated by the authors themselves.
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Issue Contributors
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Scott Steensma
Scott Steensma is a writer, librarian and son of a cat fancier from Melbourne. He has been... -
C. A. Broadribb
Bio: C. A. Broadribb has an MA in Professional Writing and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism. She... -
Kevin J. Phyland
Old enough to just remember the first manned Moon landing, Kevin was so impressed he made science... -
John O’Keefe
J. S. O’Keefe is a scientist, trilingual translator and writer. His short stories and poems have... -
Col Hellmuth
Col Hellmuth is an ex-electrician/jack-of-all-trades (as in tired of them), who has retired to an... -
Gregory Ballinger
Gregory Ballinger is an avid reader, writer and time traveller. When Gregory is not reading or... -
Mark Connelly
Mark Connelly’s fiction has appeared in Peregrine Journal, Killer Nashville, Möbius Blvd, Indiana... -
Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan is a writer and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia, and an avid reader and writer... -
Mark Webb
Mark Webb's midlife crisis came in the form of attempting to write speculative fiction at a very... -
Jennifer Bisset
Jennifer Bisset is a speculative fiction writer from Canberra. She has previously worked as a... -
Holly Scott
Holly Scott is a young writer from rural Australia. She was shortlisted for a competition held by... -
Adam Browne
Adam Browne, born in the early 1960s, lives in Melbourne. He is an award-winning writer, and has... -
Tytarchuk Fedir
Tytarchuk Fedir was born in the distant 1977, in the city of Kharkov (then still the USSR), at a... -
Ion "Nuke" Newcombe
Ion Newcombe is the editor and publisher of AntipodeanSF , Australia’s longest running online...
Meet the Narrators
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Marg Essex
Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.She feels so lucky to be a part of the AntiSF team.
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Merri Andrew
Merri Andrew writes poetry and short fiction, some of which has appeared in Cordite, Be:longing, Baby Teeth and Islet, among other places.She has been a featured artist for the Noted festival, won a Red Room #30in30 daily poetry challenge and was shortlisted for the
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Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell is an award-winning writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing.Publication credits include Masters Review, Wigleaf, Electric Literature,
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Laurie Bell
Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of "The Stones of Power Series" via Wyvern's Peak Publishing: "The Butterfly Stone", "The Tiger's Eye" and "The Crow's Heart" (YA/Fantasy).
She is also the author of "White Fire" (Sci-Fi) and "The Good, the Bad and the Undecided" (a
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Emma Gill
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Emma Louise Gill (she/her) is a British-Australian spec fic writer and consumer of vast amounts of coffee. Brought up on a diet of English lit, she rebelled and now spends her time writing explosive space opera and other fantastical things in -
Chuck McKenzie
Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970, and still spends much of his time there.He also runs the YouTube channel 'A Touch of the Terrors', where — as 'Uncle Charles' — he performs readings of his favourite horror tales in a manner that makes most ham actors
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Tim Borella
Tim Borella is an Australian author, mainly of short speculative fiction published in anthologies, online and in podcasts.He’s also a songwriter, and has been fortunate enough to have spent most of his working life doing something else he loves, flying.
Tim lives with his wife Georgie in beautiful Far
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Carolyn Eccles
Carolyn's work spans devising, performance, theatre-in-education and a collaborative visual art practice.
She tours children's works to schools nationally with School Performance Tours, is a member of the Bathurst physical theatre ensemble Lingua Franca and one half of darkroom —
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Geraldine Borella
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Geraldine Borella writes fiction for children, young adults and adults. Her work has been published by Deadset Press, IFWG Publishing, Wombat Books/Rhiza Edge, AHWA/Midnight Echo, Antipodean SF, Shacklebound Books, Black Ink Fiction, Paramour Ink Fiction, House of Loki and Raven & Drake -
Ed Errington
Ed lives with his wife plus a magical assortment of native animals in tropical North Queensland.His efforts at wallaby wrangling are without parallel — at least in this universe.
He enjoys reading and writing science-fiction stories set within intriguing, yet plausible contexts, and invite readers’ “willing suspension of
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Sarah Jane Justice
Sarah Jane Justice is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, poet, musician and spoken word artist.Among other achievements, she has performed in the National Finals of the Australian Poetry Slam, released two albums of her original music and seen her poetry
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Michelle Walker
My time at Nambucca Valley Community Radio began back in 2016 after moving into the area from Sydney.As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, I recognised it was definitely God who opened up the pathways for my husband and I to settle in the Valley.
Within
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Mark English
Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).All this science hasn't damped his love of fantasy and science fiction. It has, however, ruined his
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Barry Yedvobnick
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Barry Yedvobnick is a recently retired Biology Professor. He performed molecular biology and genetic research, and taught, at Emory University in Atlanta for 34 years. He is new to fiction writing, and enjoys taking real science a step or two beyond its known boundaries in his
Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.