The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story writers. Varied across genre and style, each collection offers four short stories and a unique glimpse into worlds fashioned by some of our favourite storytellers. Each author has taken the brief of 4 stories and up to 40 000 words in their own direction. Some are quartet suites of linked stories. Others are tasters of the range and style of the writer. Each book delivers something unexpected to readers.
Twelve Planets
Bad Power
by Deborah Biancotti
Series: Twelve Planets.
Price:
$3.99 USD.
Words: 32,130.
Language:
English.
Published: February 19, 2018
by
Twelfth Planet Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Hate superheroes?
Yeah. They probably hate you, too.
From Crawford Award nominee Deborah Biancotti comes this sinister short story suite, a pocketbook police procedural, set in a world where the victories are only relative, and the defeats are absolute. Bad Power celebrates the worst kind of powers both supernatural and otherwise, in the interlinked tales of five people — and how far they’ll go.
Asymmetry
by Thoraiya Dyer
Series: Twelve Planets.
Price:
$5.95 USD.
Words: 23,380.
Language:
English.
Published: March 22, 2013
by
Twelfth Planet Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
In every world, an imbalance of power. Something terribly askew between women and men, humans and wolves, citizens and constructs, light and dark.
‘The combination of strange and familiar gives Dyer’s fiction the power wielded by the best SF. The stories unerringly find find the human inside the bizarre. These are unsettling, poignant, marvellous. Read them. You will be glad you did.’ Nancy Kress
Secret Lives of Books
by Rosaleen Love
Series: Twelve Planets.
Price:
$5.95 USD.
Words: 19,260.
Language:
English.
Published: October 23, 2015
by
Twelfth Planet Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Women's fiction » Feminist
The much anticipated all new original collection of short stories from one of Australia's science fiction masters and winner of the Chandler Award for outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction.
The Female Factory
by Lisa L Hannett & Angela Slatter
Series: Twelve Planets.
Price:
$5.95 USD.
Words: 41,640.
Language:
English.
Published: October 29, 2015
by
Twelfth Planet Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Procreation is big business. Children are a commodity few women can afford. Hopeful mothers-to-be try everything. Fertility clinics. Pills. Wombs for hire. Babies are no longer made in bedrooms, but engineered in boardrooms. A quirk of genetics allows lucky surrogates to carry multiple eggs, to control when they are fertilised, and by whom—but corporations market and sell the offspring...
Cherry Crow Children
by Deborah Kalin
Series: Twelve Planets.
Price:
$5.95 USD.
Words: 61,530.
Language:
English.
Published: November 20, 2015
by
Twelfth Planet Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Fantasy » Dark, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
Sooner or later, in every community, fate demands its dues — and the currency is blood.