Shadows in the Stone

“Jack Dann’s Shadows in the Stone creates such a complete world that Italian history no longer seems comprehensible without his cosmic battle of spiritual entities behind and within every historical actor and event.” (Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times Bestselling Author) The author of The Age #1 bestselling novel The Memory Cathedral returns to Renaissance…

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The Economy of Light

Aurealis Award finalist, Best Horror Novel, 2009 Stephen is a retired Nazi hunter, divorced yet living happily enough on his ranch on the fringe of the Amazon jungle. But when Brazilian police unearth the alleged remains of the detested Auschwitz camp doctor, Josef Mengele, Stephen’s life is immediately and traumatically transformed. At the grave site,…

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Insinuations: an Autobiography

Jack Dann, one of SF’s most versatile and esteemed novelists, short story writers, and anthologists, has led a complex and fascinating life–after surviving the brutal tensions of military school and a months-long near-death experience in a hospital’s terminal wards, he embarked on the life of an author in the full swing of the Sixties, finding…

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Dreaming in the Dark

  Winner of the 2017 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology “Dreaming in the Dark will especially appeal to two groups of readers–those who love words themselves, and those who want an enticing sampler of work by some of Australia’s most talented working writers.” (Locus) Dreaming in the Dark, an original collection of some of…

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Concentration

“Dann is a Faulkner and a Márquez for Jews.” (Marleen Barr) JACK DANN’s groundbreaking anthologies Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars used the tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism to ask and try to answer! what it means to be a Jew. In his new short-story collection Concentration, Dann enlists the techniques of…

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The Man Who Melted

“On my personal list of the greatest SF novels of all time (available upon request), Jack Dann’s The Man Who Melted would be right up there—a beautiful, terrifying cri du mort for humanity and an absolutely unforgettable book.(Elizabeth Hand for Science Fiction Age)” The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave…

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Journal

Uh, oh..it's The Jack Dann Game

September 18, 2013

So, you spend a lifetime trying to write serious fiction, fiction that will gain your entry into the “Great Conversation”, but beware of what the…

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Catching up…

July 8, 2013

I’ve been rather lax regarding social media lately, as I’ve been working on some PhD deadlines. I’ll try to keep more current now. So… The…

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Magic Tales Theme Anthology Bundle 2 Available from Baen Books…

April 19, 2013

The second Magic Tales e-book anthology bundle is now available from Baen Books. It includes Dinosaurs II, Invaders, Magicats I and Magicats 2, Sea Serpents,…

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New Story Online…

April 16, 2013

The Review of Australian Fiction, an online literary magazine, has just published my story “Waiting for Medusa” in Volume 5: Issue 6.  It is SF, and the…

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Magic Tales Series Available Online…

March 20, 2013

Baen Books will be publishing e-book editions of the entire Magic Tales fantasy and science fiction series I edited with that editor’s editor and raconteur Gardner Dozois. They…

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Newcastle Writers' Festival…

March 12, 2013

I’ll be a guest at the Newcastle Writers’ Festival, April 6-7th. It should be fun, as I’ll be doing a gig hosted by ABC Radio’s…

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