Blackford, Russell
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1954- ) Australian author and critic. The best of his small output of sf may be "Glass Reptile Breakout" (in Strange Attractors, anth 1985, ed Damien Broderick), the title story of Glass Reptile Breakout (anth 1990) edited by Van Ikin, a Cyberpunk tale of self-healing teenagers. His only novel, The Tempting of the Witch King (1983), is ironic fantasy. Co-editor of Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series, Blackford has two William Atheling Jr Awards for criticism. With David King he edited Urban Fantasies (anth 1985), sf and fantasy stories, and, with Jenny Blackford (1957- ), Lucy Sussex and Norman Talbot (1936-2004), Contrary Modes (anth 1985), essays on sf. As an author of nonfiction, he is of most interest for Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/Time Fiction (1998 chap), a sympathetic analysis of Damien Broderick's fiction; and Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (1999) with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen, a comprehensive survey of the field. [PN]
Russell Kenneth Blackford
born Sydney, New South Wales: 1954
works
series
Terminator
- Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles: Dark Futures (New York: ibooks, 2002) [tie to the Terminator universe: Terminator: pb/]
- Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles: An Evil Hour (New York: ibooks, 2003) [tie to the Terminator universe: Terminator: pb/]
- Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles: Times of Trouble (New York: ibooks, 2003) [tie to the Terminator universe: Terminator: pb/]
individual titles
- The Tempting of the Witch Queen (St Kilda, Victoria: Void Publications, 1983) [pb/Steve Dash]
- Kong Reborn (New York: ibooks, 2005) [tie to the film: King Kong: pb/]
nonfiction
- Hyperdreams: Damien Broderick's Space/Time Fiction (New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia: Nimrod Publications, 1998) [nonfiction: chap: Damien Broderick: in the publisher's Babel Handbooks on Fantasy and SF Writers series: pb/uncredited]
- Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999) with Van Ikin and Sean McMullen [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
- Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination: Visions, Minds, Ethics (New York: Springer, 2017) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Science and Fiction series: pb/]
- Consciousness and Science Fiction (New York: Springer, 2018) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Science and Fiction series: pb/]
works as editor
- Urban Fantasies (Melbourne, Victoria: Ebony Books, 1985) with David King [anth: pb/]
nonfiction works as editor
- Contrary Modes: Proceedings of the World Science Fiction Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1985 (Melbourne, Victoria: Ebony Books, 1985) with Jenny Blackford, Lucy Sussex and Norman Talbot [anth: pb/]
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