@booklet {11626, title = {"August 2029"}, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {149-154}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story is told as the first issue of a community newsletter, the Murrnong Community Dispatch. In it, the Aboriginal community welcomes all members of the community including the many refugees that it is accepting and discusses the issues facing the community and some of the plans to deal with them.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {Genevieve Grieves}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11623, title = {"Dispatch"}, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {139-148}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

Aboriginal Australians had survived the COVID pandemic much better than other Australians because, given systematic neglect by government, Aboriginal communities had evolved effective grassroots services. The story is presented as The Moreton-Robinson Annual Address Barak University BLAKFULLAS Campus in 2029. BLAKFULLAS stands for Blak Lives And Knowledge Fundamental University Living knowledge Living culture And Solidarity). The lecture follows the development of the university and its teaching and development of Aboriginal knowledge in response to the ongoing crises.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {Zena Cumptson}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11635, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Fifteen Days on Mars{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {42-65}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701 }, author = {Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975)}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11627, title = {"The Girls Home"}, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {223-243}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

A future Aboriginal community chooses, without their knowledge, girls who are drugged to temporarily eliminate their memories to put in the dystopian girl\’s home conditions that their forebearers were forced to endure. In the story, the girls find the inner resources to fight back as a community and escape, which appears to be the point.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author, Queer author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {Mykaela Saunders}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11625, title = {{\textquotedblleft}History Repeating{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {198-212}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

In a future Australia, Aboriginal children are taken from their families by force and put on a spaceship and sent off Earth, a space age version of what was actually done in Australia.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {Lisa Fuller}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11676, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Nimeybirra{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {207-220, with a note on the author on 208}, publisher = {Queensland University Press}, address = {St. Lucia, Qld, Australia}, abstract = {

The story in the form of notes from various people to others, some deceased, begins in 2086 and continues until 2157, and the returns to April 2021 in a note from the author. The notes follow the gradual taking back of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand by its indigenous peoples with the final entry a statement of the original impetus.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {978-0702265662}, author = {Laniyuk}, editor = {Mykaela Saunders} } @booklet {11629, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Prime Minister{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {275-300, with {\textquotedblleft}A Note from the Family of Uncle SJ Minniecon{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}A Note from the Editors{\textquotedblright} on 300}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The is told in periods from the life story of the first Aboriginal Prime Minister of Australia ending with an egalitarian, wealthy Australia with spaceflight.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {SJ Minniecon (1918-2006)}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {11840, title = {"Ostraka"}, howpublished = {After Australia}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {127-141}, publisher = {Affirm Press/Diversity Arts Australia/Sweatshop Literary Movement}, address = {South Melbourne, Vic, Australia}, abstract = {

The protagonist is an Aboriginal woman who on returning to Australia is detained at declared stateless under a 2039 law that allows the government to ostracize anyone who it decides is a person of bad

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9781925972818 }, author = {Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974)}, editor = {Michael Mohammed Ahmad} } @booklet {11679, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Terranora{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Collisions: Fictions of the Future }, year = {2020}, note = {

Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.

}, month = {2020}, pages = {88-100}, publisher = {Pamtera Press}, address = {Seaforth, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn\’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, isbn = {9780648795186 978-0702265662}, author = {Mykaela Saunders} } @booklet {10706, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Drones Above the Coral Sands{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s 58. 2040 A.D. }, volume = {58}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {34-47}, publisher = {McSweeney{\textquoteright}s Quarterly Concern}, address = {San Francisco, CA}, abstract = {

The story is set in Far North Queensland, Australia and is concerned with the death of the coral reefs from the point-of-view of someone who is documenting the continuing destruction of the reef. Collecting such information has been outlawed by the \“eco-fascist\” government that only pretends to be protecting the environment while actually helping the corporations exploiting the country\’s natural resources.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Female author}, author = {Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974)} } @booklet {10134, title = {Terra Nullius}, year = {2017}, note = {

U.S. ed. Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2018

}, pages = {2017}, publisher = {Hachette Australia}, address = {Sydney, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

The novel is set within the dystopia of colonialism.\ 

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Claire G. Coleman (b. 1974)} } @booklet {9389, title = {The Foretelling of Georgie Spider}, year = {2015}, note = {

Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2015.\ 

}, month = {2015}, publisher = {Walker Books}, address = {Newtown, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Sequel to 2012 and 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume, the people with special talents finally win acceptance. \ 

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975)} } @booklet {9357, title = {"Water"}, howpublished = {Heat and Light}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {67-123}, publisher = {University of Queensland Press}, address = {St. Lucia, Qsld, Australia: University of Queensland Press}, abstract = {

The story, which has strong elements of magic realism, is set in a future Australian dystopia in which an Aboriginal President is driving a wedge between cultures.\ 

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {8744, title = {The Disappearance of Ember Crow}, year = {2013}, note = {

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2016.\ 

}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Walker Books}, address = {Newtown, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Sequel to 2013 Kwaymullina. In this volume one of the young people with special talents goes missing. See also 2015\ Kwaymullina.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975)} } @booklet {8334, title = {The Swan Book}, year = {2013}, month = {2013}, publisher = {Giramondo}, address = {Artarmon, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia set in a future Australia, particularly Aboriginal Australia, undergoing the effects of climate change.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Alexis Wright (b. 1950)} } @booklet {8747, title = {The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf}, year = {2012}, note = {

U.S. ed. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2014.

}, month = {2012}, publisher = {Walker Books}, address = {Newtown, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Young adult dystopia with fantasy elements based partially on Aboriginal beliefs. At fourteen everyone has to be assessed for illegal talents. The focus is on a group of children who escape and are being hunted.\ See 2013 and 2015 Kwaymullina for sequels.\ 

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Female author}, author = {Ambelin Kwaymullina (b. 1975)} } @booklet {4940, title = {Land of the Golden Clouds}, year = {1998}, note = {

An excerpt was published in Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Ed. Grace Dillon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), 131-40 with an editor\’s note on 131-32, 247.\ 

}, month = {1998}, publisher = {Allen \& Unwin}, address = {St. Leonards, NSW, Australia}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Set in a post-catastrophe Australia 3000 years in the future. Conflict among the surviving groups, all of whom have taken on at least part of the Aboriginal world view. The groups that are closest to the Aboriginal way of life are presented most positively.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Male author}, author = {Archie Weller (b. 1957)} } @booklet {9455, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Farewell Reverberated Vault of Detentions.{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {New and Selected Poems: Mualdjali, Mutuerjaraera }, year = {1995}, note = {

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse. Ed. Peter Porter (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1996), 266.\ 

}, month = {1995}, pages = {41-42}, publisher = {Hyland House}, address = {South Melbourne, Vic, Australia}, abstract = {

Poem depicting the aboriginal eutopia possible without the effects of the white colonizers.\ 

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Male author}, author = {Lionel G. Fogarty (b. 1958)}, editor = {Peter Porter} } @booklet {3461, title = {Walg}, year = {1983}, note = {

Australian edition with the subtitle\ A Novel of Australia. South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan, 1986. U.K. ed. London: Macmillan, 1986.

}, month = {1983}, publisher = {Dodd, Mead}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Presents the white treatment of the Aborigines of Australia as a vicious dystopia. Hints of an Aboriginal eutopia. Also includes a white model of Aboriginal life as a new dystopia. \"Walg\" means \"womb.\" His Karan (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985) and Gabo Djara (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987) are part of the trilogy. Walg was adapted for German radio and also for a film.

}, keywords = {Aboriginal author, Australian author, Serbian author}, author = {B. Wongar (b. 1932)} }