Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild Anthologies

Series · 1 book · 2018

By Eugen Bacon, David Versace, David Coleman, and more

Books in series

#13

A Hand of Knaves

2018

Rogues, thieves, pirates and ne'er-do-wells abound in speculative fiction. Sometimes heroic, sometimes villainous, often somewhere in between, rogues are as likely to steal one's heart as one's purse, and show little remorse while helping themselves to either. So why do we love them? Because they're imperfect, fallible, and even vulnerable under that carefully-maintained, world-weary exterior. Rogues represent something we rarely see in our daily lives: ordinary people prepared to take on the "powers that be" by way of guile and subterfuge. But are they only in it for the loot, or are they—deep down—romantic at heart?

Authors

David Coleman is a Professor in the Department of History at Eastern Kentucky University.

Maureen Flynn lives on the East Coast of NSW on Dharawal nation land. She is an avid speculative fiction and crime fiction lover, writer and fan. She has finally taken up freelance work so she can dedicate more hours of her day to working on novels and short stories. Her short stories have featured in publications by CSFG, Specul8 and Deadset Press and she is working on two YA fantasy novels in 2020.

Claire McKenna is a SFF writer from Melbourne, Australia.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Welcome! I’m an award-winning Melbourne-based author, with a solid career of writing with influence across a variety of mediums. I’ve been ‘writing and moonlighting’ for as long as I can remember. Whether it’s writing the first draft of a shiny new story, or helping other writers polish their own works, there’s nothing I like better than fiddling around with words. My genre-mashing fiction for children and adults has won, been shortlisted for, and honourably mentioned for numerous awards and prizes including the Aurealis, Australian Shadows, Ditmars, and Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s Writing Award. To date, my traditionally-published works include three middle grade novels, a speculative short story collection, and over sixty short stories, poems, and articles in numerous Australian and international anthologies, journals, and magazines. I hold a MA in Creative Writing, and a Certificate of Publishing (Copy Editing & Proofreading). To provide her muse with life’s essentials I copywrite and edit in a freelance capacity and operates StoryCraft Creative Writing Workshops for aspiring authors of every age and ability…however my true passion is storytelling. Say G’day at rebeccafraser.com or Twitter and Instagram @becksmuse or have some fun over on TikTok @rebeccafraserauthor

C.H. Pearce

Author · 1 books

Artist and an Aurealis and Brave New Weird Award-nominated and Ditmar Award-winning writer of horror-tinged speculative fiction from Canberra, Australia. Her short fiction has been published in Body of Work anthology, Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird, and more. She is represented by Carleen Geisler at P.S. Literary. Find her work and links to social media on chpearce.net

Cassandra Page is a mother, author, editor and geek. She lives in Canberra, Australia’s bush capital, with her son and two Cairn Terriers. She has a serious coffee addiction and a tattoo of a cat—despite being allergic to cats. She has loved to read since primary school, when the library was her refuge, and loves many genres, all of them speculative fiction. When she’s not reading or writing, she engages in geekery, from Doctor Who to AD&D. Because who said you need to grow up?