TY - ABST T1 - Kelly Country Y1 - 1983 A1 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler (1912-84) KW - Australian author KW - English author KW - Male author AB -

Alternative history describing an Australian war of independence that followed from the Australian icon Ned Kelly not being killed. Eutopia and dystopia with Australian ending up being successfully invaded by various countries.

PB - Penguin Books with the assistance of the Literature Board of the Australia Council CY - Ringwood, VIC, Australia N1 -

The stories “Kelly Country.” Void Science Fiction and Fantasy (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), [no. 3 (1976)]: 63-73; and “The Way It Was.” Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 2] (March/April 1981): 54-57; 125-27 are the basis of the novel. “Kelly Country” has been rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: Queensland University Press, 1982), 166-80. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Chicago, 1984), 166-180. “The Way It Was” has been rpt. as “A New Dimension.” In his Up to the Sky in Ships (Cambridge, MA: The NESFA Press, 1982), 69-86, which is bound with Lee Hoffman, In and Out of Quandry (1982). 

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