Issue #55-56 (Vol.22, Nos 1+2 – 2024) is a special double-issue (183 pages) presenting new work by John Kinsella and drawing attention to his lifelong interest in science fiction.

John Kinsella is the author of around one hundred published books, either as writer or editor, maintaining an output of work “largely unmatched in Australia” (Journal of Commonwealth Literature). Perhaps still best known as a poet and activist, he is also a novelist, playwright, essayist, critic, editor and academic. Australian Book Review has described him as an “acclaimed eco-poet and self-confessed anarchist”. His work has won numerous awards and he has frequently worked in collaboration not only with other writers, but also with artists, musicians, and activists. One publisher’s biography says: “Kinsella is currently rolling many lives into one, across time-zones, poetics, and national borders”. John Kinsella was professor of English at Kenyon College (USA), is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, an emeritus professor at Curtin University, and an adjunct professor to the University of Western Australia.

Included in this double issue:

· stories from his new short story collection, Entomology

· a sampling of the forthcoming new “Lucida Intervalla” novel

· Scenes from Half-World I, the first novel in a new Kinsella series, published in its entirety

· an interview with the man himself, John Kinsella