Born on the South Island of New Zealand and now living on the North Island of Australia, Simon Petrie is a Canberra-based research scientist and writer of speculative fiction (SF, fantasy, and occasionally horror), with over one hundred short stories published since 2006. In August 2010, he was awarded Best New Talent in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards (NZ“s annual speculative fiction awards), and in 2013 and 2018 respectively his novellas „Flight 404“ and „Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body“ won the Best Novella / Novelette award in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the (Australian) Ditmar and Aurealis Awards, and has appeared in Year“s Best lists; he“s also scored a coveted Dishonourable Mention in the annual Bulwer-Lytton writing competition. The three elements central to his writing style are scientific detail, humour, and the Oxford comma.
10 Ebooks von Simon Petrie
Simon Petrie: Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body
Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan’s lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why. This novella blends hard- …
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Simon Petrie: Wide Brown Land
Light levels are low. It’s killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected.
The icy landscape around you—hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an …
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Simon Petrie: Flight 404
To solve the mystery of the Bougainvillaea’s disappearance, investigator/pilot Charmain Mertz must return to the conservative world of her boyhood. Flight 404 is a novella blending elements of SF, mu …
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Simon Petrie: 80, 000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess
Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal i …
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Simon Petrie: Murder on the Zenith Express
Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift. The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift.
All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administerin …
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Emillie Colyer & Simon Petrie: Dimension6
Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our third annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field toda …
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Simon Petrie: Pointy-Enders
Dodging flying chairs, wrestling screaming, abusive children and dealing with angry parents.
This is part of the daily fare for Hugo Walker who fights crime and violence every day.
His beat is not …
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Simon Petrie: Tremendously Inconveniencing A Great Many Photons
Karinette Lichtermann, xenolinguist, is one of many mission specialists aboard the List of Wealthy Donors, on a mission to encounter the alien civilisation responsible for an indecipherable radio sig …
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Simon Petrie: Soft Dim Skies
Cory needs the past to be forgotten.
Portia needs to uncover what has been hidden, and Cory needs the work she’s offering.
‚Soft Dim Skies‘ is a spare and gradual exploration into the unknown, on …
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Simon Petrie: The 1001 Top Immortality Treatments You Must Try Before You Die (collected short fiction)
‚The 1001 Top Immortality Treatments You Must Try Before You Die‘ is Simon Petrie’s latest collection of short speculative fiction. Petrie’s work is characterised by its versatility, ranging from sho …
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