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  • Perchance to Dream, Short Story by Isobelle Carmody

    The District of Wonders website put up a reading of Isobelle Carmody’s short story, Perchance to Dream, which appeared in the Dreaming Again anthology in 2008, read by Cynthia P Colby. The portion of the podcast available here has been published purely for archiving purposes. Perchance to Dream Anna woke knowing she had been dreaming, but as so often with dreams, to wake was to forget. Strange to remember vividly...

  • The Stone Key Readings

    Here are the transcripts of Isobelle Carmody’s readings from Convergence in June 2007. Watch all the recordings via this Playlist on Youtube. Reading 1 I thought of the premonition that had assailed me earlier. “I begin to fear we were too quick to let people know of our refuge. Suddenly everything seems less sure, than when the rebellion ended.” Brydda shook his head. “If you’d kept your refuge secret, it...

  • An Excerpt from The Stone Witch

    Here’s the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way...

  • An Excerpt from Metro Winds

    So there was a girl. Young but not too young. A face as unformed as an egg, so that one could not tell if she would turn out to be fair or astonishingly ugly. She was to be sent to a city in another land by a mother and father in the midst of a divorce. The one thing they could agree upon was that the girl should not be...

  • An Excerpt from The Journey

    She recognized him from the holovids and nuscan bites as soon as she was ushered into his office. Tall and handsome, electric blue eyes, a great eccentric mane of white-blond hair and a smile that seemed just a little too bright and wide in real life. William Reichler was fleshier than in the vids, but the visual slimdown might not be vanity. Cam crews always shaved off podge claiming it...

  • A Nibble from The Sending

    At the far end of a narrow passage, a yellow light flashed a dull summons in the grainy dimness. The ground underfoot was broken and dangerously uneven, but a sense of urgency drove me on. ‘Stop!’ a woman’s voice commanded. The murk quivered and thinned and I saw Dragon ahead, sitting on a broken stone column and gazing into an ornamental pond surrounded by a terrace of cracked paving stones....

  • An Excerpt from Moth’s Tale

    Moth’s father was a foolish, impulsive, prideful man. One day he decided to go before the king with some other men, to propose a festival. He was a miller and the other men were variously a grain farmer, a cow herder, a baker and an orchardist and each of them called himself the master of his trade. Their idea was a festival that would involve an orgy of breadmaking and...

  • Strangers’ Gate

    What is it about airports? Case thought. There was something almost mythical about the level of boredom and stagnation that you experienced, trapped in these mazes of shining glass and plastic laid out over acres of bilious looking carpet. Yet in movies airports were always represented as glamorous and slightly dangerous places, where pursuit scenes erupted violently in the midst of all that coming and going, the protagonist racing along moving...

  • The Garrett podcast

    Nic: Isobelle Carmody is an inventive and extraordinarily popular writer. When it comes to Australian fantasy fiction, there is no bigger name. I recorded this chat with Isobelle at the State Library of Victoria, after Isobelle had spent the weekend at Comic Con. I started by asking her about her early influences… Listen to the full episode: