The World SF News Blog – The Awesome Kaaron Warren talks at people and makes them answer questions

Very interesting round-table by Kaaron Warren – sample below and the rest lives here http://worldsf.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/monday-original-content-australian-sf-round-table/

Monday Original Content: A Round Table on Australian SF with Gillian Polack, Simon Brown, Yaritji Green and Tessa Kum.

By Kaaron Warren

Australians have a long history of Science Fiction and Fantasy literature. May Gibbs’ wrote Snugglepot and Cuddlepie in 1918. These famous gumnut babies and their mortal enemies the Banksia men are part of our cultural heritage, as are the dreamtime stories of indigenous Australians, the ghost stories from China, Vietnam and Japan and the cultural ‘baggage’ all of us bring to the country.

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