Ben F. Blitzer’s story, ‘Character Actor,’ was longlisted in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short Story Competition, 2021.
It was included in the anthology, Jump, from Hawkeye Publishing.
He lives in Western Australia.
AntipodeanSF
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Issue Contributors
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Joseph Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan is a writer and filmmaker from Melbourne, Australia, and an avid reader and writer... -
Michael D. Davis
Michael D. Davis was born in the late nineteen hundreds. His origins rumored to be an egg, a mad... -
Dr. Paul Cesarini
Dr. Paul Cesarini is a Professor & Dean at Loyola University New Orleans. He has been published in... -
Kevin J. Phyland
Old enough to just remember the first manned Moon landing, Kevin was so impressed he made science... -
Mark English
Mark is an ex-rocket scientist with a doctorate in physics, so has an unwitting talent for taking... -
Dr. Michael Schaper
Where you see strange dreams, cockatoos and other nonsensical nostrums congregate, there’s a good... -
Laurie Bell
Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of "The Stones of Power Series" via... -
Darren Lipnicki
Darren’s written output typically aligns with one of two arguably antipodean forms — scientific... -
Anthony Woolley
Anthony Woolley resides in Melbourne, Australia, but was born in Hobart in the early 1970s. He is... -
AE Reiff
AE Reiff's most recent publication is "The JFK Order" (Grand Canal Flyway, 2023), thirty-nine... -
Ion "Nuke" Newcombe
Ion Newcombe is the editor and publisher of AntipodeanSF , Australia’s longest running online... -
Rodney Sykes
Rodney grew up in country South Australia and later in Adelaide but now lives and works in... -
William Kitcher
Bill’s stories, plays, and comedy sketches (and one poem!) have been published, produced, and/or... -
Tim Borella
Tim Borella is an Australian author, mainly of short speculative fiction published in anthologies,... -
Mark Webb
Mark Webb's midlife crisis came in the form of attempting to write speculative fiction at a very... -
Tony Steven Williams
Tony Steven Williams was born in Penzance, Cornwall, UK (that’s right, the town with the... -
Greg Foyster
Greg Foyster is a writer, illustrator and author of the memoir Changing Gears , currently living... -
Edwina Harvey
Edwina Harvey is a writer and editor, specialising in speculative fiction. Her urban fantasy flash... -
KJ Hannah Greenberg
KJ Hannah Greenberg has been playing with words for an awfully long time. Initially a rhetoric... -
Robbie Sheerin
Robbie Sheerin was born in Scotland but now lives in the USA. He writes short stories in his spare... -
Lynne Lumsden Green
Lynne Lumsden Green lives in Queensland, Australia, though – in reality – she lives inside her... -
Ben F. Blitzer
Ben F. Blitzer’s story, ‘Character Actor,’ was longlisted in the Sydney Hammond Memorial Short... -
Joanna Barrett
Joanna is a writer who lives in the bush near the Glasshouse Mountains in Queensland. She writes... -
Aron Milligan
Melbourne based Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Aron Milligan, has been developing his digital... -
Chuck McKenzie
Chuck McKenzie was born in 1970, and still spends much of his time there. He also runs the YouTube... -
JM Cyrus
JM Cyrus is a speculative fiction writer living in London, England. She writes whenever there is a... -
Michael Barry
Michael Barry grew up in rural New South Wales and in Papua New Guinea, arriving in Canberra after... -
Col Hellmuth
After spending much of his life moving around the Australian continent Col Hellmuth has finally...
The AntiSF Radio Show
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Meet the Narrators
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Timothy Gwyn
Timothy Gwyn is a professional pilot in Canada, where he flies to remote communities. During a lull in his flying career, he was a radio announcer for three years, and he is also an author.In addition to short stories at AntipodeanSF and NewMyths.com, his SF novel is available internationally in print and ebook
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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.
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Juliette Cavendish
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Juliette Cavendish was born in Liverpool UK and is of Welsh and Norwegian heritage. Juliette has an interest in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Science and writes in both Science Fiction and Contemporary Fiction genres. Juliette was fascinated with space as a -
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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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 -
Sarah Pratt
Sarah Pratt is an avid fiction writer and a Marketing Consultant.She is currently working on her first novel but loves diving into short stories to bring a little lightness, intrigue or humour to the day.
Her work has appeared in Sponge Magazine and The Commuting
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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 -
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 -
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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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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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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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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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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Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.