Terry Dowling
Source: "Terry Dowling Bibliography." Author Wars, https://authorwars.com/authors/terry-dowling.html".
Notes:
Terry Dowling is one of Australia's most acclaimed writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is author of Rynosseros, Blue Tyson and Twilight Beach (the Tom Rynosseros saga), Wormwood, The Man Who Lost Red and An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, and editor (with Dr Van Ikin) of Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF and senior editor of The Essential Ellison. As well as being reviewer of science fiction, fantasy and horror for The Australian, he is also a musician and songwriter, with eight years of appearances on the ABC's Mr Squiggle & Friends, and is a Communications lecturer at a large Sydney college. He has been called "one of our finest futurists" (Independent Monthly) and "one of the finest imaginative minds of the 1990s" (Canberra Times).
Titles:
Anthologies
Chapter Books
Collections
- Unknown. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
- Unknown. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear
- Unknown. Blackwater Days
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Make Believe
- Unknown. Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming
- Unknown. Rynosseros
- Unknown. The Man Who Lost Red
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Wormwood
- 2010. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder
- 2017. The Night Shop: Tales for the Lonely Hours
Essays
- Unknown. A Lateral Leading Edge: Australian SF and Cyberpunk
- Unknown. A Stab of Merriment
- Unknown. Afterword (The Copsy Door)
- Unknown. Afterword: Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel
- Unknown. Beginnings
- Unknown. Bibliography (The Man Who Lost Red)
- Unknown. Bibliography [updated] (The Man Who Lost Red)
- Unknown. Catharsis Among the Byzantines: Delany's Driftglass
- Unknown. Contracts on the Soul
- Unknown. Dark Liberation
- Unknown. Heart's Blood
- Unknown. Introduction (An Intimate Knowledge of the Night)
- Unknown. Introduction (Deathbird Stories)
- Unknown. Introduction (Hard Luck Diggings)
- Unknown. Introduction (Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF)
- Unknown. Introduction: Fruit from the Tree of Life
- Unknown. Introduction: Jack Vance, Magician
- Unknown. Introduction: Sublime Rebel
- Unknown. Introduction: The Ultimate Grandeur
- Unknown. Jack Vance's "General Culture" Novels: A Synoptic Survey
- Unknown. Jack Vance, My Friend
- Unknown. Lagniappe
- Unknown. Letter (Locus #392)
- Unknown. My Friend Jack
- Unknown. Nawoord (De kreupeldeur)
- Unknown. Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird
- Unknown. Notes on Contributors (Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF)
- Unknown. Petards & Hangings
- Unknown. Process
- Unknown. Recommended Reading (Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF)
- Unknown. Rococo Technology
- Unknown. Science Fiction and Fantasy in Australia 1996
- Unknown. Science Fiction Around the World: SF in Australia
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #367)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #372)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #375)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #378)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #387)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #395)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #408)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #415)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #420)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #428)
- Unknown. SF in Australia (Locus #438)
- Unknown. Shadows from the Past
- Unknown. Sharing With Strangers
- Unknown. Sources (Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF)
- Unknown. Story Commentaries (An Intimate Knowledge of the Night)
- Unknown. Syncon 1988: Conviction
- Unknown. That New Old-Time Religion
- Unknown. The "Man" with the Off-White Light-Sabre
- Unknown. The Art of Xenography: Jack Vance's "General Culture" Novels
- Unknown. The Classics
- Unknown. The Complete Rynosseros [Rynosseros bibliography]
- Unknown. The Road to 1996
- Unknown. To the Mattresses With Mean Demons
- Unknown. Trouble With Women
- Unknown. What is Science Fiction?, Or, Finding a Lowest Common Denominator
- Unknown. Worlds of Love
- Unknown. Worlds of Terror
- Unknown. Worlds of Wonder: Introduction
- 2007. Introduction: Fruit from the Tree of Life
- 2009. Introduction (Wild Thyme, Green Magic)
- 2010. Preface (Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder)
- 2011. Introduction (Dangerous Ways)
- 2011. The Lever of Life: Cordwainer Smith as Ethical Pragmatist
- 2012. Introduction (Desperate Days)
- 2013. Dancing with Scheherazade: Some Reflections in the Djinn's Glass
- 2014. Introduction (Minding the Stars)
- 2015. Introduction (Grand Crusades)
- 2020. Appendix A (The Complete Rynosseros)
- 2020. Appendix B (The Complete Rynosseros)
- 2020. Blue Tyson
- 2020. Rynemonn
- 2020. Rynoserros
- 2020. Songs from the Inland Sea: Writing the Tom Rynosseros Stories
- 2020. Twilight Beach
Interviews
- Unknown. A Moment with Kim Wilkins,Stephen Dedman, Terry Dowling & Rob Hood
- Unknown. Making Strange: A Gothic Conversation with Terry Dowling, Australia's Premier Writer of the Imagination
- Unknown. Postcards from the Flight Deck: Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Riding the Tiger: An Interview with Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Smoking Mirrors, with a Hint of Scrimshaw
- Unknown. Terry Dowling: Australian Talespinner
- Unknown. The Darkling Smile: An Interview with Terry Dowling
- Unknown. The Ikin Interviews: Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Time for Tom Rynosseros: An Interview with Terry Dowling
- Unknown. TimeWinds
Magazine Editor
- Unknown. Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #3
- Unknown. Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, #8
Novels
Omnibuses
Poems
- Unknown. A Valediction to the Time Traveller
- Unknown. The Leopard
- Unknown. The Leopard
- 2010. Amberjack
- 2010. At the Sign of the Moon
- 2010. Bermudas
- 2010. China in His Day
- 2010. Déjà-vu
- 2010. Down in the Limbo Gardens
- 2010. Gantry Jack
- 2010. Glencoe
- 2010. Ithaca
- 2010. Mr. Fate & Mr. Danger
- 2010. Now, Then, Everywhen
- 2010. The Blue Marlin Whore
- 2010. The Lure of Legendary Ladies
Reviews
- Unknown. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder
- Unknown. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder
- Unknown. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
- Unknown. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
- Unknown. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
- Unknown. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night
- Unknown. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling
- Unknown. Blackwater Days
- Unknown. Blackwater Days
- Unknown. Blackwater Days
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Blue Tyson
- Unknown. Clowns at Midnight
- Unknown. Clowns at Midnight
- Unknown. Clowns at Midnight
- Unknown. Clowns at Midnight
- Unknown. Mortal Fire
- Unknown. Mortal Fire
- Unknown. Mortal Fire
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian Science Fiction
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF
- Unknown. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF
- Unknown. Rynemonn
- Unknown. Rynosseros
- Unknown. Rynosseros
- Unknown. Rynosseros
- Unknown. Tales of Terror
- Unknown. The Lagan Fishers
- Unknown. The Man Who Lost Red
- Unknown. The Man Who Lost Red
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Twilight Beach
- Unknown. Woodworm
- Unknown. Wormwood
- Unknown. Wormwood
Short Fiction
- Unknown. A Deadly Edge Their Red Beaks Pass Along
- Unknown. A Dragon Between His Fingers
- Unknown. A Song to Keep Them Dancing
- Unknown. A Whisper from the Voice at the Vanishing Point
- Unknown. A Woman Sent Through Time
- Unknown. Basic Black
- Unknown. Beckoning Nightframe
- Unknown. Blackwater Days
- Unknown. Breaking Through to the Heroes
- Unknown. Cheat Light
- Unknown. Clowns at Midnight (excerpt)
- Unknown. Colouring the Captains
- Unknown. Come Home
- Unknown. Coming Down
- Unknown. Corpse Rose
- Unknown. Coyote Struck by Lightning
- Unknown. Dag Extracts
- Unknown. Dark Me, Night You
- Unknown. De kreupeldeur
- Unknown. Djinn of Anjoulis
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Eight
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Five
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Four
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Nine
- Unknown. Doing the Line - One
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Seven
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Six
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Three
- Unknown. Doing the Line - Two
- Unknown. Down Flowers
- Unknown. Dreaming the Knife
- Unknown. Exchange of Letters
- Unknown. Fear-Me-Now
- Unknown. First Interview: A Journey
- Unknown. Flashmen
- Unknown. For As Long As You Burn
- Unknown. Going to the Angels
- Unknown. He Tried to Catch the Light
- Unknown. His Own, the Star Alphecca
- Unknown. Housecall
- Unknown. I cercatori di lagan
- Unknown. In the Dark Rush
- Unknown. Jarkman at the Othergates
- Unknown. Jenny Come to Play
- Unknown. L'Envoi: A Homecoming
- Unknown. La Porta Silvestre
- Unknown. La Profonde
- Unknown. Larrikin Wind
- Unknown. Light from the Deep Pavilion
- Unknown. Linking Material (An Intimate Knowledge of the Night)
- Unknown. Mariners' Round
- Unknown. Marmordesse
- Unknown. Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel
- Unknown. Mirage Diver
- Unknown. Nights at Totem Rule
- Unknown. Nightside Eye
- Unknown. No Hearts to Be Broken
- Unknown. Nobody's Fool
- Unknown. One Thing About the Night
- Unknown. Privateers' Moon
- Unknown. Roadsong
- Unknown. Rynemonn
- Unknown. Sailors Along the Soul
- Unknown. Scaring the Train
- Unknown. Second Interview: Psychosleuths
- Unknown. Sewing Whole Cloth
- Unknown. Shatterwrack at Breaklight
- Unknown. Ship's Eye
- Unknown. Ships for the Sundance Sea
- Unknown. So Much for the Burning Queen
- Unknown. Some Roses for the Bonestell Man
- Unknown. Spinners
- Unknown. Stitch
- Unknown. Stoneman
- Unknown. Swordplay
- Unknown. Tesserina and the Target Man
- Unknown. The Babel Ships
- Unknown. The Bone Ship
- Unknown. The Bull of September
- Unknown. The Bullet That Grows in the Gun
- Unknown. The Copsy Door
- Unknown. The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap
- Unknown. The Echoes
- Unknown. The Final Voyage of Captain Gelise
- Unknown. The Fooly
- Unknown. The Four Darks
- Unknown. The Green Captain's Tale
- Unknown. The Gully
- Unknown. The Honour of Them
- Unknown. The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse
- Unknown. The Infinite Race
- Unknown. The Last Elephant
- Unknown. The Leopard
- Unknown. The Library
- Unknown. The Madlock Chair
- Unknown. The Maiden Death
- Unknown. The Man Who Lost Red
- Unknown. The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes
- Unknown. The Mars You Have in Me
- Unknown. The Maze Man
- Unknown. The Only Bird in Her Name
- Unknown. The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House
- Unknown. The Rediscovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb
- Unknown. The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees
- Unknown. The Saltimbanques
- Unknown. The Shaddowwes Box
- Unknown. The Sleepover
- Unknown. The Suits at Auderlene
- Unknown. The Terrarium
- Unknown. The Third Gift
- Unknown. The View in Nancy's Window
- Unknown. The Way the Red Clown Hunts You
- Unknown. They Found The Angry Moon
- Unknown. Third Interview: A Forgetting
- Unknown. Time of the Star
- Unknown. Totem
- Unknown. Truth Window
- Unknown. Truth Window: A Tale of the Bedlam Rose
- Unknown. Two Steps Along the Road
- Unknown. Vanities
- Unknown. What We Did to the Tyger
- 1998. Downloading
- 2001. The Lagan Fishers
- 2004. Clownette
- 2007. The Magikkers
- 2007. Toother
- 2011. Armurile de la Auderlene
- 2013. La porte copse
- 2015. The Corpse Rose
- 2018. The Tryal Attract
- 2019. The Unwrapping
- 2021. The Five Sisters
- 2022. The Key to Mabella
- 2023. The Mawkin Field
Awards
- 0000. Blackwater Days - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Collected Work (Win)
- 0000. Rynosseros - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
- 0000. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Novel (Win)
- 0000. Wormwood - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
- 0000. The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. The Bullet That Grows in the Gun - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. Terrarium - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. The Last Elephant - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. The Man Who Lost Red - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. The Ones Who Walk Away Behind the Eyes - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy (Win)
- 0000. For As Long As You Burn - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Win)
- 0000. Jenny Come to Play - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Win)
- 0000. The Saltimbanques - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Win)
- 0000. Rynemonn: Leopard Dreaming - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence (Win)
- 0000. Toother - Australian Shadows Award, Novels, anthologies, and short stories (2005-2008) (Win)
- 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Convenors' Award for Excellence (Win)
- 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - International Horror Guild Award, Best Collection (Win)
- 0000. Clowns at Midnight - Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel (Nomination)
- 0000. Blue Tyson - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Wormwood - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF - Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Nomination)
- 0000. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Blackwater Days - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Novel (Nomination)
- 0000. Blackwater Days - World Fantasy Award, Best Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Twilight Beach - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. An Intimate Knowledge of the Night - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Blue Tyson - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Long Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Ship's Eye - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. His Own, the Star Alphecca - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Beckoning Nightframe - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Time of the Star - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. The Maze Man - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Scaring the Train - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Vanities - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. A Dragon Between His Fingers - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Privateer's Moon - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Nobody's Fool - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. A Deadly Edge Their Red Beaks Pass Along - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. The View in Nancy's Window - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, SF Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Marmordesse - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. The Saltimbanques - World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. Basic Black - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Short Fiction (Nomination)
- 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Fantasy Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Rynemonn - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Novella or Novelette (Nomination)
- 0000. Toother - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Collected Work (Nomination)
- 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
- 0000. Cheat Light - International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Form (Nomination)
- 0000. Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel - Australian Shadows Award, Short Fiction (2011-) (Nomination)
- 0000. The Unwrapping - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Story (Nomination)
- 0000. The Sleepover - Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction, Horror Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Scaring the Train - Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear - Australian Shadows Award, Novels, anthologies, and short stories (2005-2008) (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Blackwater Days - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The View in Nancy's Window - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Saltimbanques - Locus Poll Award, Best Novelette (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Ditmar Award / Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award, Best Australian Short Fiction (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. The Lagan Fishers - Locus Poll Award, Best Short Story (Nomination below cutoff)
- 0000. Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling - Locus Poll Award, Best Collection (Nomination below cutoff)
Genres/Themes:
- science fiction (7 books)
- future Australia (5 books)
- horror (5 books)
- Australia (2 books)
- mystery (1 book)
- alien occupation (1 book)
- supernatural (1 book)
- first person (1 book)
- curse (1 book)
- contemporary (1 book)
- mummies (1 book)