Twilight Beach

1993 Dowling, Terry [Terence William] (b. 1947). Twilight Beach. North Adelaide, SA, Australia: Aphelion Publications. Rpt. in The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume II (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-290. Part originally published as “Larrikin Wind.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 1 (1.1) (Autumn 1990): 42-54; “Roadsong. From the Further Adventures of Tom Rynosseros.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 6 (2.2) (Spring 1991): 64-97; “Ship’s Eye.” Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 8 (2.4) (Autumn 1992): 55-75; “The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise.” Aurealis (Melbourne, VIC, Australia), no. 9 (1992): 41-48; “Shatterwrack at Breaklight.” Omega Science Digest (Sydney, NSW, Australia), [no. 21] (July/August 1985): 110-16; rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 78.3 (466) (March 1990): 118-31; in Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF. Ed. by Terry Dowling and Van Ikin (Rydalmere, NSW, Australia: Hodder & Stoughton (Australia), 1993), 79-95; in Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling (Nedlands, WA, Australia: mp Books, 1999), 63-77; and in his Make Believe: A Terry Dowling Reader (Greenwood, WA, Australia: Ticonderoga Publications, 2009), 77-90. PSt

Continuation of his Rynosseros series. See also 1990, 1992, 2007 and 2009 Dowling. In this collection of stories, the main protagonist of the series is searching for information about his past. A related story is “Down Flowers.” Orb Speculative Fiction (South Preston, VIC, Australia), no. 0 (1999): 29-43. See also “Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Series.” The Complete Rynosseros: The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros. Volume III (Hornsea, Eng.: PS Publishing/Drugstore Indian Press, 2020), 1-124. The volume also contains Dowling’s “Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in a Djinni’s Glass” (125-40); originally published in Parabolas of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013. Ed. Brian Attebery and Veronica Hollinger (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2013), 24-35; Richard Scott, “The Adventures of Tom Ryosseros: One Reader’s View” (141-153); originally published online in October 2007; and an “Author’s Note” (155-56). Australian author.