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Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why. This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her. Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body won the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella or Novelette, and was shortlisted in the analogous category in both the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards.

Light levels are low. It's killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected.The icy landscape around you--hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an opaque, lowering sky--wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber, puddled with drifts of dark sand. The atmosphere, though thick, would permit only a parody of respiration: there is no succour in it. Were it not for the insulating, carefully-regulated containment of your suit, you would be dead within minutes, frozen solid within an hour.Welcome to Titan.Wide Brown Land is a collection of hard science fiction short stories set in the settlements and badlands of Saturn's haze-shrouded moon, Titan, where the landscape is as formidable a foe as the most determined adversary.

To solve the mystery of the Bougainvillaea's disappearance, investigator/pilot Charmain Mertz must return to the conservative world of her boyhood. Flight 404 is a novella blending elements of SF, murder mystery, and transgender fiction.

Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed to take hold in eight billion years. 80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess is a collection of SF short fiction, sometimes humorous and sometimes deadly serious, by NZ-born Australian writer Simon Petrie.

Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn't have a lift. The hotel, the 'Skyward Suites 270', was the lift. All Gordon wants to do, when he isn't delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is to be able to finish his crossword in piece. But people keep inconsiderately dying of unnatural causes during their stay aboard his lift-module on the Skyward space elevator. Welcome to Module 270, an orbit-transiting hotel with a suspiciously high body count.

'The 1001 Top Immortality Treatments You Must Try Before You Die' is Simon Petrie's latest collection of short speculative fiction. Petrie's work is characterised by its versatility, ranging from short humorous pieces to futuristic extrapolations grounded in scientifically robust underpinnings.

Cory needs the past to be forgotten. Portia needs to uncover what has been hidden, and Cory needs the work she's offering.'Soft Dim Skies' is a spare and gradual exploration into the unknown, on the most mysterious moon in the Solar System.

Solveig Robertson must prove her worth as a xenolinguist newly stationed on the research airship Wayfaring Stranger, a vessel exploring the upper-atmospheric biodiversity of the haze-shrouded world Rousseau. Solveig is keen to establish communication with the zeps, but it takes two to communicate and none of the zeps show any inclination to interact with humans. To compound matters, Solveig's interactions with her colleagues aren't proving straightforward either, and airship gondolas aren't known for their spaciousness.Wayfaring Stranger is an inventive and imaginative SF novella by a three-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel award.

'I Have No Legs And I Must Manspread' is Simon Petrie's latest collection of short speculative fiction. Petrie's work is characterised by its versatility, ranging from short humorous pieces to futuristic extrapolations grounded in scientifically robust underpinnings. This collection comprises several short pieces originally published elsewhere, as well as numerous stories appearing here for the first time.