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Twelfth Planet Press is part of the changing face of Australian publishing.

Blending print and electronic formats, Twelfth Planet Press aims to foster, develop and promote quality speculative fiction writing in fresh, exciting projects.

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Razor Sharp (Tara Sharp Investigator Series) by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 25,370. Language: Australian English. Published: February 25, 2023 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Cozy
A girl on the run; a new rival bikie gang; and another body in her car boot. Situation normal for Tara Sharp.
The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories by
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 59,790. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
'The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories' is the first book in Twelfth Planet Press' new Classic Reprints ebooks line which brings back into print titles we believe deserve fresh life.
Caution: Contains Small Parts by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 44,450. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
An intimate, unsettling collection from award-winning author Kirstyn McDermott; four stories that will haunt you long after their final pages are turned.
Cracklescape by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 26,150. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers’ dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities.
Through Splintered Walls by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 46,300. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost
Country road, city street, mountain, creek. These are stories inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness, loneliness and perfection of the Australian landscape. ‘Every Warren story is a trip with no map.’ – Gemma Files
Showtime by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 27,370. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Family drama can be found anywhere: in kitchens, in cafes. Derelict hotels, showground rides. Even dungeons far below ruined Hungarian castles. (Okay, especially in Hungarian dungeons.)
Thief of Lives by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 26,350. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
A story about history, women, science (and also the demonic); a crime story, based upon a true crime; a realist satire of the supposedly sex-savvy; and a story exploring lies, and the space between the real and the unreal. Welcome to the worlds of Lucy Sussex, and to her many varied modes.
Love and Romanpunk by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 28,120. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
The world is in greater danger than you ever suspected. Women named Julia are stronger than they appear. History is not what you think it is.
Nightsiders by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 38,550. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2021 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.
The Long Shot by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 37,990. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2020 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller, Fiction » Romance » Suspense
Simone Parker returns home to the small Australian town of Brownbeck for a funeral. Now their abusive father is dead, she hopes to reconcile with her sister, Claire. When Simone is the only witness to a brutal bashing, she discovers Brownbeck harbours a criminal gun trafficking gang. How can she help police officer Mitchell Ross in his investigation if her own sister is involved?
Rebuilding Tomorrow: by
Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 90,650. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2020 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
What if the apocalypse isn’t the end of the world? Rebuilding Tomorrow is an anthology filled with stories about disabled and chronically ill characters getting on with living with the new normal that has been established after various apocalyptic disasters. This is the follow-up anthology to Defying Doomsday an anthology of apocalypse-survival fiction focusing on disabled protagonists. 
Marry Me Mischa McPhee by
Price: $3.70 USD. Words: 40,470. Language: English. Published: December 21, 2018 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » Short stories
When Maddy discovers a love note scrawled on the toilet cubicle wall at work, she decides to go on a quest to find out who wrote it and to see if, just maybe, it was intended for her. This sweet Christmas holiday romance set in Hobart, Tasmania, is just the thing you need to ease into the festive season this year. BYO cup of hot chocolate and slice of cake!
Icefall by
Price: $3.70 USD. Words: 27,770. Language: English. Published: November 5, 2018 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
The Mountain on the planet of Icefall holds the mystery to a lost colony and an irresistible, fatal allure to the climbers of the universe. Maggie is determined to be the first to make the summit. Aisha, injured in a climbing incident herself, has always supported her wife, trusting Maggie would always return from her adventures. But no one ever returns from the Mountain.
Mother of Invention by (editor) & (editor)
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 94,980. Language: English. Published: September 4, 2018 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Knit robots, build spaceships, and shape the future. Extraordinary short stories about gender, artificial intelligence and the art of building something new. Mother of Invention features the work of Seanan McGuire, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Nisi Shawl, John Chu, Justina Robson and more.
Bad Power by
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.
Sharp Edge by
Series: Tara Sharp. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 60,700. Language: English. Published: October 24, 2017 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Amateur sleuth
(4.00 from 1 review)
Dead bodies, a complicated love life, and a conflict between the local drug cartels, and a favour owed to the local bikies have Tara scrambling to stay ahead of the game.
Luminescent Threads: Octavia E. Butler by &
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 109,340. Language: English. Published: September 20, 2017 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies, Nonfiction » Social Science » Black studies (global)
Luminescent Threads celebrates Octavia E. Butler, with original essays and letters to Butler.
Too Sharp by
Series: Tara Sharp. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 74,470. Language: English. Published: March 28, 2017 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Tara Sharp’s new case brings her to Brisbane, where she is placed in charge of Slim Sledge, a high-maintenance rock star. Tara’s a sucker for a backstage pass, and it'll provide some much-needed distance between herself and her mother's not-so-subtle hints about getting a “real” job, not to mention crime lord Johnny Viaspa, the only man on the planet who wants her dead.
Sharp Turn by
Series: Tara Sharp. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 61,590. Language: English. Published: November 26, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Tara’s quirky PI business is attracting some even quirkier customers. She’s not sure how Madame Vine’s Escort Agency got her number. And then there’s the eccentric motorcycle racing team owner, Bolo Ignatius. Both these clients want to Tara to investigate suspicious circumstances that turn up dead bodies. That can only mean one thing in this town: John Viaspa. ...
Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015 by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 83,670. Language: English. Published: October 11, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists. Our goal is to uncover the best young adult short fiction of the year and bring them together in one accessible collection.
Defying Doomsday by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 94,470. Language: English. Published: June 2, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
Teens form an all-girl band in the face of an impending comet. A woman faces giant spiders to collect silk and protect her family. How would you survive the apocalypse? Defying Doomsday is an anthology of apocalypse fiction featuring disabled and chronically ill protagonists, proving it’s not always the “fittest” who survive.
Salvage by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 43,030. Language: English. Published: May 27, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Seeking to salvage their foundering marriage, Melanie and Richard retreat to an isolated beach house on a remote Queensland island. Intrigued by a chance encounter with a stranger, Melanie begins to drift away from her husband and towards Helena, only to discover that Helena has her own demons, ageless and steeped in blood.
Trucksong by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 52,510. Language: English. Published: May 27, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
In a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape dominated by free-wheeling cyborgs, a young man goes in search of his lost lover who has been kidnapped by a rogue AI truck – the Brumby King. Along the way, he teams with Sinnerman, an independent truck with its own reasons for hating the Brumby King.
Sharp Shooter by
Series: Tara Sharp. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 76,000. Language: English. Published: May 25, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Tara Sharp should be just another unemployable, twenty-something, ex-private schoolgirl . . . but she has the gift - or curse as she sees it - of reading people's auras. The trouble is, auras sometimes tell you things about people they don't want you to know.
Madigan Mine by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 94,740. Language: English. Published: February 13, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Crime, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense
OBSESSION NEVER DIES … When Alex meets Madigan again everything changes. His childhood sweetheart is beautiful and impulsive, but there is something wrong with her. Something dangerous.
Perfections by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 118,250. Language: English. Published: February 13, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Two sisters. One wish. Unimaginable consequences. Not all fairytales are for children.
Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2014 by &
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 100,990. Language: English. Published: February 13, 2016 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
Fans of Kaleidoscope will find more tales of wonder, adventure, diversity, and variety in this collection devoted to stories with teen protagonists.
Cherry Crow Children by
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.
The Female Factory by &
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...
Secret Lives of Books by
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.
Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 by &
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 103,350. Language: English. Published: September 21, 2015 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Discover the best young adult science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories of the year! Julia Rios and Alisa Krasnostein, the award winning editors of "Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Fiction and Fantasy Stories" have collected twenty-one of the best young adult speculative fiction short stories of 2013.
Letters to Tiptree by &
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 89,390. Language: English. Published: September 4, 2015 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Social Science » Feminism & Feminist Theory, Nonfiction » Social Science » Women's studies
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both James Tiptree Jr (Sheldon's pen name) and Sheldon herself on the field, Twelfth Planet Press has published a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate and recognise her work.
New Ceres Issue 1 by
Price: Free! Words: 21,140. Language: English. Published: May 2, 2013 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
On New Ceres you will find coffee houses, highwaymen, drinks, gambling and illegal high technology. New Ceres' New Enlightenment constrains society as well as liberating old thoughts and literature and drinking customs. The planet plays interstellar politics to defend its independence and it recruits refugees from Old Earth and the conquered New Alliance planets to maintain some dangerous habits.
Asymmetry by
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
The Company Articles of Edward Teach/The Angaelien Apocalypse by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 37,450. Language: English. Published: January 5, 2011 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Two novelettes form the second Twelfth Planet Press Double. The Company Articles of Edward Teach – Learning to live inside your own skin is hard enough, but what if you were thrown back in time, to another body; a different world…? The Angaelien Apocalypse - An alien story you’ve never seen before …
Above/Below by
Price: $5.95 USD. Words: 40,400. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2011 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » General
A tale of two cities, the stories Above and Below make up two halves of another in the TPP Doubles series. Written by Stephanie Campisi and Ben Peek, designed to be self-contained and complete as individual narratives, the two parts can be read in either order, yet also form a single narrative that has been intricately woven and designed to create a single, novel length story.
Sprawl by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 91,200. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2011 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Sprawl is an exciting new original anthology, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth Planet Press, that will give readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs.
Bleed by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 36,640. Language: English. Published: January 3, 2011 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Women Sleuths, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
(4.00 from 1 review)
A Miriam Aster novella (sequel to Horn). For ten years ex-cop Miriam Aster has been living with her one big mistake – agreeing to kill three men for the exiled Queen of Faerie. But when an old case comes back to haunt her it brings a spectre of the past. Today Miriam's about to learn that worse things can happen when the past refuses to stay behind you.
Angel Rising, a New Ceres Novella by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 21,460. Language: English. Published: October 14, 2009 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
The New Ceres planetary charter forbids the use of modern technology. Law confines the people to the ways of 18th Century Earth. Beneath the surface, rebellion and revolution simmer constantly. Proctor George Gordon knows all too well how easily these can bubble over, but nothing can prepare him for interstellar warfare in his own technologically challenged backyard.
Horn by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 22,790. Language: English. Published: October 14, 2009 by Twelfth Planet Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
A dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster. A consulting job for city homicide quickly becomes a tangled knot of unexpected questions, and the link between the dead girl and the unicorn will draw Aster back into the world of the exiled fey she thought she’d left behind ten years ago, and she isn’t happy.

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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.
Bad Power
Price: $3.99 USD.
Asymmetry
Price: $5.95 USD.
Secret Lives of Books
Price: $5.95 USD.
The Female Factory
Price: $5.95 USD.
Cherry Crow Children
Price: $5.95 USD.
Tara Sharp by
Tara Sharp is Triple F: Funny. Fast. Feisty.
Sharp Shooter
Price: $5.99 USD.
Sharp Turn
Price: $8.99 USD.
Too Sharp
Price: $6.99 USD.
Sharp Edge
Price: $6.99 USD.

Books

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 105,980. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
What do a disabled superhero, a time-traveling Chinese-American figure skater, and a transgender animal shifter have in common? They’re all stars of Kaleidoscope stories! Featuring New York Times bestselling and award winning authors along with newer voices.
New Ceres Nights by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 88,070. Language: English. Published: October 23, 2009 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
New Ceres, a planet in the outer colonies, embraced the Age of Enlightenment nearly 200 years ago and refused to let go. Refugees & opportunists come to New Ceres in search of new lives, escaping the conflicts of the interstellar war. ... presents 13 exciting stories of rebellion, debauchery, decadence, subterfuge & murder set against the backdrop of powdered wigs, coffee houses, duels and balls.

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