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Stephanie Gunn

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Stephanie Gunn is a writer of speculative fiction, occasional reviewer and owner of too many books.

She has been published in various anthologies, including the award-winning Defying Doomsday and Aurum. Her Aurealis award winning novella Icefall is published by Twelfth Planet Press.

She lives in Perth, Western Australia with her family and requisite cat, who cares not for books at all.

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Belated News: Awards and a Reprint

This past year has been hectic, so this post is more than belated.

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First of all, shiny awards! Icefall won the Aurealis Best Science Fiction Novella Award for 2018, while my story Pinion (published in Aurum) won the short fiction category of the Norma K Hemming Award.

Icefall has also been reprinted! You can find it in The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 3 (and

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Average rating: 4.22 · 654 ratings · 208 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors

	Defying Doomsday by Tsana Dolichva (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Kench (Editor), Octavia Cade (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.32 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grants Pass by Jennifer Brozek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cherie Priest (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Martin Livings (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebuilding Tomorrow by Tsana Dolichva (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bogi Takács (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Janet Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.42 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Icefall 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloodlines by Amanda Pillar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanne Anderton, Martin Livings (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear Me Roar by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (editor), Jenny Blackford (Goodreads Author), Faith Mudge (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurum: A golden anthology of original Australian fantasy by Russell B. Farr (Editor), Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lucy Sussex (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloodstones by Amanda Pillar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), M.L.D. Curelas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Penny Love (Contributer) 4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Epilogue by Tehani Croft Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Thoraiya Dyer (Goodreads Author), Jason Nahrung (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Talie Helene (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jo Anderton (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stephanie’s Quotes

“It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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“Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

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“Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

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“If you are falling....dive.”
― Joseph Campbell

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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: aspirations, books, dreams, escape, journeys, life, reading, refuge, values

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message 4: by Richard

Nov 03, 2023 03:01AM

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message 3: by William

Apr 14, 2011 08:02AM

Hi-
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message 2: by Steve

Oct 21, 2010 07:05AM

Hi Stephanie,

Thank you for the friendship, much appreciated -x-
You've some truly interesting titles (Many I've never even heard of *smiling*), me intrigued *smiling*
Hoping you are well, best wishes to you -x-

Steve

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