Michael Wilding (1) (1942–)

Author of The Second Pacific Book Of Australian Science Fiction

For other authors named Michael Wilding, see the disambiguation page.

About the Author

Michael Wilding is the author of Wild Bleak Bohemia, which won the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal 2015 from The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Works by Michael Wilding

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The Second Pacific Book Of Australian Science Fiction (1971) — Contributor — 44 copies

The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories (1994) — Editor — 34 copies

Academia nuts (2002) 17 copies

Marvell (1969) 13 copies

The West Midland Underground: Stories (1975) 9 copies

Raising spirits, making gold and swapping wives : the true adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly (1999) 7 copies

Aspects of the Dying Process (1972) 7 copies

Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon & Henry Kendall (2014) 7 copies

Political Fictions (1980) 6 copies

Wildest Dreams (1998) 6 copies

The Paraguayan Experiment (1985) 6 copies

Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience (1991) 6 copies

Living Together (1974) 6 copies

National treasure (2007) 5 copies

The Man of Slow Feeling (1985) 5 copies

Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir (2011) 5 copies

Wild About Books: Essays on Books and Writing (2019) 4 copies

Milton's "Paradise Lost" (Sydney studies in literature) (1969) 4 copies

Superfluous men (2009) 4 copies

Australians abroad : an anthology (1967) 4 copies

The phallic forest (1978) 3 copies

Growing Wild (2016) 3 copies

Somewhere new : new & selected stories (1996) 2 copies

Prisoner of Mount Warning (2010) 2 copies

Scenic Drive (1976) — Author — 2 copies

The Best Stories Under the Sun (2004) 2 copies, 1 review

Reading the signs (1984) 2 copies

Studies in Classic Australian Fiction (Sydney studies in society and culture) (1997) 2 copies

The short story embassy: A novel (1975) 2 copies

The Fossil Evidence Re-Run 1 copy

Outlines for Urban Fantasies 1 copy

The Tabloid story pocket book (1978) 1 copy

Beach Report 1 copy

The Words She Types 1 copy

This is for You (1994) 1 copy

In the Valley of the Weed (2016) 1 copy

Pacific Highway (1982) 1 copy

Illumination 1 copy

Great Climate (1990) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection (2004) — Contributor — 66 copies

The Best Australian Stories 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 23 copies

The Zeitgeist machine: A new anthology of science fiction (1977) — Author — 23 copies

Marcus Clarke (Portable Australian authors) (1976) — Editor — 17 copies

Classic Australian Short Stories (1974) — Contributor — 12 copies

Urban fantasies (1985) — Contributor — 9 copies

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Canonical name: Wilding, Michael
Birthdate: 1942-01-05
Gender: male
Occupations: author
milkman
postman
newspaper columnist
professor
academic
Organizations: Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy
New South Wales Writers' Centre
Paper Bark Press (cofounder)
Nationality: UK
Australia
Birthplace: Worcestershire, England, UK
Places of residence: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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The Best Stories Under the Sun by Michael Wilding

This one was recommended to me as a good intro to Aussie writers and I picked it up at today's MeetUp.

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Journal entry 3 by SKingList from New York, New York USA on Sunday, January 23, 2005

Cute stories, nice exposure to some authors I'm not at all familar with.

Jan 11, 2009