Issues Orb Issue #6

75,000 words of fiction about: catching a train to eternity... healing with a spicy soup... sentient buildings... kissing at the dance studio... giving your mate change for life... finally turning off the toaster

Cover art by Renee Dillon.

PLUS: a new article reviewing the art of Warhammering - gaming online and in the community, and "Confluxing" - the art of organising and volunteering for SF conventions.
Issue #6 $24.95
Orb issue #5

Released at the National Science Fiction Convention at Swancon
17-21 April 2003.
Cover art by Peter Loader.

This issue features stories by:
  • Chris McMahon
  • Nicole R Murphy
  • Natalie Wilde
  • Shane Brown
  • Brendan Duffy
Dinosaurs!
Issue #5 contains a review/article on our favourite ancestors, covering new texts on archaeology, palaeontology and field science.

Orb
issue #5 $16.95
Double issue Orb #3/4

Ten stories, including the Orb Writing Competition Winners: a new kind of changeling; meeting that goal weight; multiplying buggies. . . keeping one's selves under control. . . changing God. . . being a little Aussie battler. . . smoking your way to the top. . . gaping into the maw. . . watching too much TV. . . political correctness and the old bitch. . .

Cover art by Trudi Canavan, of The Telltale Art.

PLUS: the inaugural science review/article section - the Moon and Mars. ALSO: Edwina Harvey's "Vale Douglas Adams".

Orb double issue #3/4 $19.95

Orb issue #2

Thirteen stories: Peeling skins on pink-bodied women . . . Looking for a lost New Zealand . . . Wicked children half-trolls . . . Being a fish husband . . . Emotional vampires . . . A tree that drinks blood . . . Seeing people's heaven . . .

Cover art by Daryl Lindquist, of R&D Studios.
PLUS: A new interview with Arthur C Clarke "20 Questions" with Robin Hobb.

Orb issue #2 $16.00

Orb issue #1

Eight stories, artwork and reviews.
Cover art by Nick Stathopoulos, winner of the 1999 Ditmar award for SF illustration.

Orb issue #1 $9.95

Orb issue #0

The first issue of Orb was released at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia, in 1999. Now sold out. Cover art by Shaun Tan, winner of the Children's Picture Book of the Year.
Orb issue #0 sold out.


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