Welcome to the home page of Sylvia Kelso.

Sylvia is an author of both fantasy and science fiction, usually set in analogue or outright Australian landscapes. She has a Creative Writing MA built around one SF novel using alternate North Queenslands.

Sylvia is contributing to the Book View Cafe. Exclusive! - download and read Chapters I-VI of Riversend on Book View Cafe.

Sylvia's latest thing out is a reprint of “Slick,” her first published short story, appearing with some starry names in Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls.

Riversend available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble online and Juno books. Check out its Youtube entry!

-Free Download of Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 of The Red Country.

-Everran’s Bane now available as an e-book from Book View Café, just scroll down.

-“The Sharp Shooter”, Sylvia Kelso’s latest short fiction, is set in the shared world of New Ceres, where the 18th Century has stretched into the Space Age. Appearing in the New Ceres Nights anthology, now out from Twelfth Planet, available online in hardcover and e-copies.

A collection of Sylvia Kelso’s essays, entitled Three Observations and a Dialogue Round and About SF, will be released by Aqueduct Press in May 2009.

Sylvia lives in North Queensland, Australia, and writes fiction as well as academic articles. These pieces were given as papers at conferences or conventions and/or published in academic journals over the past 20 years.

Sylvia's critical interests cover Feminist Theory and History; Gothic and Horror Fiction; Science Fiction and Fantasy; and Women's Writing

Sylvia can be contacted at sylvia.kelso@jcu.edu.au

This page was last modified: 14 November 2009

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