SHORT STORIES

The following bibliography lists short prose works, written in English or translated into English, dealing substantially with Antarctica.

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Bauer, E. "The Forgotten World." Amazing Stories Aug. 1931: 436-44.

Bryusov, Valery. "The Republic of the Southern Cross." 1905. The Republic of the Southern Cross and Other Stories. London: Constable, 1918. [Also published in The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica. Ed. Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria UP, 2004. 65-86.]

Burks, Arthur J. "The Fatal Quadrant." Astounding Stories 20.6 (Feb. 1938): 36-64.

Clarke, Arthur C. "At the Mountains of Murkiness, or, From Lovecraft to Leacock." 1940. At the Mountains of Murkiness and Other Parodies. Ed. George W. Locke. London: Ferret Fantasy, 1973. 94-111.

Clough, Brenda W. "May Be Some Time." Analog Science Fiction and Fact Apr. 2001: 10-41.

---. "Tiptoe, on a Fence Post." Analog Science Fiction and Fact July-Aug. 2002: 196-227. [This is a continuation of Clough's short story "May Be Some Time", cited above.]

Cormick, Craig. "Lady Shackleton's Freezer." Unwritten Histories. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies, 1998. 159-67. [Also published in Canberra Times 28 Feb. 1998, Panorama section: 13.]

---. "The Land of Ice: An Extract." Island 105 (Winter 2006): 68-73.

---. "Shackleton's Drift." The Princess of Cups. Canberra: Mockingbird, 2003. 81-88.

Drummond, Hamilton. "A Secret of the South Pole." The Windsor Magazine 15 (Dec. 1901 to May 1902): 612-20.

Ellis, S.W. "Creatures of the Light." Astounding Feb. 1930: 197-220.

Emerson, Willis George. "The Smoky God, or, Voyage to the Inner World." 1907–1908. FRAM: The Journal of Polar Studies 1.2 (1984): 546-85.

Falk, Lee. "Mission to Antarctica." The Phantom 1164 (1997): 1-36. [In this comic, the Ghost Who Walks goes South!]

Fearnley, Laurence. "Melting Ice." Island 105 (Winter 2006): 58-62.

---. "The Piper and the Penguin." Sport 20 (Autumn 1998): 71-80. [Also published in The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica. Ed. Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria UP, 2004. 246-258.]

Ferguson, Malcolm. "The Polar Vortex." Weird Tales Sept. 1946: 74-81.

Griffith, George [Pseudonym of George Chetwynd Griffith-Jones]. "From Pole to Pole." The Windsor Magazine 20 (June–Nov. 1904): 531-44.

Hall, Bernadette. "Sul: An Extract." Island 105 (Winter 2006): 63-67.

Hershman, Tania. "The White Road." Wonderwall. Route 16. Ed. Anthony Cropper and Ian Daley. Pontefract, West Yorkshire: Route, 2005. 29-37.

Heym, Georg. "The Travellers to the South Pole [Die Südpolfahrer]." 1911. Trans. Gordon Collier. The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica. Ed. Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria UP, 2004. 87-89. [Originally published in Georg Heym, Dichtungen und Schriften, vol. 2: Prosa und Dramen. Ed. Karl Ludwig Schneider. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1962. 120-23. Heym wrote another Antarctic short story, "Das Tagebuch Shakletons" [sic], in which Shackleton and his companions discover a warm polar interior, are turned into zombie-like creatures and imprisoned.]

Hood, Robert. "Cross Currents." Cosmos 5 (Nov. 2005): 74-77.

Huntley, Stanley. "A Trip to the South Pole." 1899. At the Mountains of Murkiness and Other Parodies. Ed. George W. Locke. London: Ferret Fantasy, 1973. 71-93.

Keegan, Claire. "Antarctica." Antarctica. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1999. 1-18.

Kent, Sharon. "The Extraordinary Resilience of Moss." Loose Lips: UTS Writers' Anthology. Ed. Lauren Finger et al. Broadway, NSW: Halstead, 2004. 127-38.

Le Guin, Ursula K. "Sur." New Yorker 1 Feb. 1982: 28-46.

Leahy, John Martin. "In Amundsen's Tent." 1928. The Macabre Reader. Ed. D.A Wollheim. New York: Ace, 1959. 48-70.

---. "The Living Death". Science and Invention (Oct. 1924–June 1925). Pages not known.

Mackay, A.F. "An Interview with an Emperor." Aurora Australis: The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. Ed. E.H. Shackleton. Cape Royds, private publication, 1908. n. pag.

McMullen, S. "The Deciad." The Call to the Edge. Adelaide: Aphelion, 1992. 110-33.

Malaprop, S [Pseudonym]. "Our Cat." Bulletin 25 Dec. 1919: 20.

Mansell, C. "Walking to Antarctica." Outrider 90: Year of Australian Literature. Ed. Manfred Jurgensen. Brisbane: Phoenix, 1990. 220-25.

Marshall, Owen. "The Frozen Continents." The Wide White Page: Writers Imagine Antarctica. Ed. Bill Manhire. Wellington: Victoria UP, 2004. 239-45. [Also published in Marshall, Owen. The Lynx Hunter and Other Stories. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1987.]

Mawson, Douglas. "Bathybia." Aurora Australis: The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. Ed. E.H. Shackleton. Cape Royds, private publication, 1908. n. pag.

Moore, Sharon. "The Trees of Antarctica." Island 101 (Winter 2005): 32-38.

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Nathanson, I. R. "The Antarctic Transformation." Amazing Stories Nov. 1931: 720-29.

Poe, Edgar Allen. "MS. Found in a Bottle." 1833. Edgar Allen Poe: Selected Tales. Ed. Julian Symons. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. 8-17.

Prospero, Peter. "The Atlantis." American Museum of Science, Literature, and the Arts 1 (1838): 42-65, 222-55, 321-41, 419-37; 2 (1839): 37-41, 231-40. [First four chapters reprinted in A Man Called Poe. 1970. Ed. Sam Moskowitz. London: Sphere, 1972. 195-211. See editor's introduction to "The Atlantis" [pp 192-5] for a discussion of Edgar Allen Poe's possible authorship of this piece.]

Richmond, Colin. "The True Story of Captain Oates." The Penket Papers and Other Stories. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1986. 87-94.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. "Michel in Antarctica." The Martians. New York: Bantam, 1999. 1-34.

Schenk, Emmy Lou. "Ice Cave." Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Aug. 1987: 50-68.

Stimson, A.C. "The Land of Mighty Insects." Wonder Stories Apr. 1934: 935-67; 1043–?

Stuart, Don A. "Who Goes There?" Astounding Science Fiction Aug. 1938: 60-97. ["Don A. Stuart" is the pseudonym of John W. Campbell Jr. This story may also be found in the compilation They Came From Outer Space. Ed. Jim Wynorski. New York: Doubleday, 1980. This story is the basis of the SF film classic, The Thing (1951), directed by Christian Nyby. John Carpenter directed the 1982 remake of The Thing. The 1951 "Thing" runs amok at a missile base in the Arctic; not the Antarctic.]

Tinniswood, Peter. "Polar Games." Collected Tales From a Long Room. London: Hutchinson, 1982. 93-104.

Utley, Steven and Harold Waldrop. "Black as the Pit, From Pole to Pole." 1977. The Year's Finest Fantasy. Ed. Terry Carr. New York: Berkeley, 1978. 71-112.

van Dresser, Peter. "South Polar Beryllium, Limited." Amazing Stories 5.5 (Aug. 1930): 416-27, 468-?

Verill, A. Hyatt. "Beyond the Pole." Amazing Stories 1.7 (Oct. 1926): 580–95; 1.8 (Nov. 1926): 724-35.

Walsh, J.M. "When the Earth Tilted." Wonder Stories 3.12 (May 1932): 1343–51.

Weir, Mordred [Amelia Reynolds Long]. "Bride of the Antarctic." Strange Stories 3 (June 1939): 72-76.

Whitebeach, Terry. "Antarctic Journey." Living Room: Poems from the Centre. Ed. Jan Owen. Alice Springs: Ptilotus, 2003. Pages not known. [This is a section of a radio play, also entitled "Antarctic Journey," produced for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 2001.]

Williamson, Jack. "The Lake of Light." Astounding Stories Apr. 1931: 100-17.

Wilson, T.H. "Lost at the South Pole, or, The Kingdom of Ice". Pluck and Luck 63 (Aug. 16, 1899). Pages not known.

Yolen, Jane and Harris, Robert J. "Requiem Antarctica." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 2000: 44-61.

Bibliography compiled as part of project undertaken by Dr Elizabeth Leane, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania.

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