Russell Blackford—shorter publications

(a select list of my shorter publications since 1996; for earlier publications see my main bibliogaphy)

Fiction (short stories)

"The Sword of God." Dream Weavers. Ed. Paul Collins. Melbourne: Penguin, 1996: 212-39.

—. reprinted, The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne Sydney: HarperCollins, 1997: 161-82.

"Lucent Carbon." Eidolon 25/26 (October 1997): 7-27.

—. reprinted, The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 2. Ed. Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne. Sydney: HarperCollins, 1998: 401-41.

"Byzantium vs Republic of Australia." Aurealis 20/21 (December 1997/January 1998): 127-49. (short story)

"The Soldier in the Machine." Dreaming Down Under. Ed. Jack Dann and Janeen Webb. Sydney: HarperCollins, 1998: 64-85. (short story)

—. Reprinted, Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction. Ed. David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick. New York: Tor, 1999: 388-410.

"The King with Three Daughters." Black Heart, Ivory Bones. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. New York: Avon, 2000: 38-59. (short story)

"Two Thousand Years." Eidolon 29/30 (Autumn 2000): 15-31.

"Smoke City." Gathering the Bones. Ed. Jack Dann, Ramsey Campbell, and Dennis Etchison. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2003: 139-55.

"The Name of the Beast was Number." Microcosms. Ed. Gregory Benford. New York: DAW, 2004.: 137-64.

"Idol." Oceans of the Mind XIII (Fall 2004): 2-8.

"Manannan's Children." Dreaming Again, ed. Jack Dann. Sydney: HarperCollins, 2008: 425-49.

Criticism and related

"Jewels in Junk City: To Read Triton." Review of Contemporary Fiction 16, 3 (Fall 1996): 142-47.

(with Sean McMullen) "Prophet and Pioneer: The Science Fiction of Norma Hemming." Fantasy Annual No. 2 (Spring 1998): 65-75.

"Sean Williams: Cool Mind, Warm Heart." Introduction to Sean Williams, New Adventures in Sci-Fi. Perth: Ticonderoga, 1999.

"More Maps of Hell." The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction (September 1999): 6-11.

(ed. with Jenny Blackford) Foundation 78 (Spring 2000) (special Australian issue).

(introd. and ed.) "Symposium on Posthuman Science Fiction." Foundation 78 (Spring 2000): 83-103.

"Hammer Blows to the Ego: Greg Egan's Rational Materialism." Nova Express 5/3 (Spring/Summer 2000): 11-15.

(introd. and ed.) "Time Travel, Time Scapes and Timescape." New York Review of Science Fiction 144 (August 2000): 1, 8-15.

"Future Problematic: Reflections on The City and the Stars." Earth is But a Star: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future. Ed. Damien Broderick. Perth: UWA Press, 2001: 35-46.

"Colloquium with Darko Suvin." Questions from Russell Blackford, Sylvia Kelso and Van Ikin. Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature 43 (2001): 3-33.

"Technological Meliorism and the Posthuman Vision: Arthur C. Clarke and the Ultimate Future of Intelligence." New York Review of Science Fiction 159 (November 2001): 1, 10-12.

"Science Fiction, Biotechnology and the Shadow of September 11." Quadrant 383 (January-February 2002): 30-33.

"Science Fiction and Biotechnology: A Conference in Thessaloniki." New York Review of Science Fiction 165 (May 2002): 16-17.

"Beyond the Frankenscientist: Biotech and Biomedical Themes in Australian Science Fiction." Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction. Ed. Domna Pastourmatzi. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002: 335-50.

"Stranger Than You Think: Arthur C. Clarke's Profiles of the Future." Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History. Ed. Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson, and Alessio Cavellaro. Sydney: Power Publications, 2002; co-published Boston: MIT Press, 2003: 252-63.

"Smart, Sinister Strange: Houses of the Future in Science Fiction Film." Experimenta House of Tomorrow exhibition catalogue/MESH 16 (2003): 64-66.

"Try the Blue Pill: What's Wrong with Life in a Simulation?" Jacking In to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation. Ed. Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty. New York: Continuum, 2004: 169-82.

"Reading the Ruined Cities: Heuser's Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 31 (2004): 264-70.

"Australian Science Fiction: A Feast of Wonder." The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection. Ed. Rob Gerrand. Melbourne: Black Inc. 2004: xii-xx.

"Greg Egan." A Companion to Science Fiction. David Seed, ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 441-51.

"Science Fiction." The Literary Encyclopedia. Published 10 November 2006.

"Australian Science Fiction." A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900. Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, eds. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007: 375-86.

"Science Fiction." Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading, ed. Kenneth Womack. Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press, 2008: 805-33.

Philosophy, law, public policy

"Judicial Power, Political Liberty and the Post-Industrial State", Australian Law Journal, 71 (1997): 267-93.

"Singularity Shadow." Quadrant 347 (June 1998): 24-29.

"Don't Panic: The Universities and Their Troubles." Quadrant 353 (January-February 1999): 11-17.

"The Left's Defection from Progress." Quadrant 355 (April 1999): 47-52.

"Women and Physics, Philosophy and Cyberspace." Quadrant 357 (June 1999): 46-52.

"Genetics, Ethics and the State." Quadrant 359 (September 1999): 35-40.

"Life Extension and its Enemies." Quadrant 362 (December 1999): 58-63.

"Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion." Quadrant 365 (April 2000): 8-14.

"The Inward Journeys of Raimond Gaita." Quadrant 369 (September 2000): 46-52.

"Free Speech and Hate Speech." Quadrant 373 (January-February 2001): 10-17.

"Margaret Somerville and the Perils of Bioethics." Quadrant 376 (May 2001): 45-52.

"Bioethics versus Liberal Society: A Reply to Margaret Somerville." Quadrant 379 (September 2001): 51-55.

"Singer's Plea for Selflessness." Quadrant 380 (October 2001): 29-35.

"Thinking about Cloning: A Reply to Judith Thomson." Journal of Law and Medicine 9 (2001): 238-50.

"Racism and Refugees." Quadrant 385 (April 2002): 7-14.

"The Supposed Rights of the Fetus." Quadrant 389 (September 2002): 11-17.

"There's madness in the Raelians' method." The Australian, 30 December 2002: 11.

"Surrogate Motherhood and Public Policy." Quadrant 394 (March 2003): 30-35.

"Is Declining Fertility a Problem?" Quadrant 394 (March 2003): 52-54.

"Who's Afraid of the Brave New World?" Quadrant 396 (May 2003): 9-15.

"Sisyphus and the Meaning of Life." Quadrant 400 (October 2003): 54-57.

"Lawrence v. Texas: A Right to Personal Freedom?" Quadrant 401 (November 2003): 34-41.

"Mutants, Cyborgs, AI & Androids." Meanjin 63, 1 (2004): 14-21.

"Liberty and Paternalism: A Reply to Tom Frame." Quadrant 407 (June 2004): 40-46.

"Should We Fear Feath? Epicurean and Modern Arguments." Immortality Institute, ed.The Scientific Conquest of Death: Essays on Infinite Lifespans. Buenos Aires: LibrosEnRed, 2004. 257-69.

"Human Cloning and 'Posthuman' Society." Monash Bioethics Review 24, 1 (January 2005): 10-26.

"Stem cell research on other worlds, or why embryos do not have a right to life." Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 177-80.

"Sinning against Nature: The Theory of Background Conditions." Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 629-34.

 "Dr. Frankenstein meets Lord Devlin: Genetic Engineering and the Principle of Intangible Harm." The Monist 89 (2006): 526-47.

"Differing Vulnerabilities: The Moral Significance of Lockean Personhood." American Journal of Bioethics - AJOB Neuroscience, 7, 1 (January 2007): 70-71.

"Slippery Slopes to Slippery Slopes: Therapeutic Cloning and the Criminal Law." American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 2 (February 2007): 63-64.

"The New Atheism rocks." Australian Rationalist # 77 (October 2007): 46-51.

"Embracing The Unkown Future: In Defence of New Technology." Human Futures: Art In An Age of Uncertainty, ed. Andy Miah. Liverpool, University of Liverpool Press/FACT, 2008: 24-35.

"Trite Truths About Technology: A Reply to Ted Peters." The Gobal Spiral 9, 9 (February 2009). Available at URL http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/10681/Default.aspx

(with Parijata Mackey) "What Is Transhumanism." The Exception Magazine (March 23 2009). Available at URL http://exceptionmag.com/culture/society/000470/what-transhumanism?page=show

"Liberalism, humanism and freedom of speech: the trouble with religious vilification laws." Australian Humanist 94 (Winter 2009): 2-4.

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