Janeen Webb


Janeen Webb is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy.

Biography

The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at local schools. She then studied at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she gained a Ph.D. in literature in 1983. For many years, she taught at the Institute of Catholic Education in Melbourne, Victoria where she was Associate Professor and Reader in literature.
From 1987 to 1991, Webb was a member of the editorial collective of Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series, and is currently on the advisory board of Science Fiction Studies. She is perhaps best known for her co-editorship, with her second husband, Jack Dann, of a major anthology of Australian science fiction and fantasy, Dreaming Down-Under, which won its editors a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, as well as a 1999 Ditmar Award.
Her other publications include Aliens & Savages: Fiction, Politics and Prejudice, The Fantastic Self and a scholarly edition of The Yellow Wave, Kenneth Mackay's important 1895 scientific romance. These books were written and edited with her colleague, Andrew Enstice.
Webb is currently working on a series of novels for young adults, The Sinbad Chronicles. The first two books are Sailing to Atlantis and The Silken Road to Samarkand.
In 1995, she married Jack Dann, an American science fiction author, with whom she resides near Foster in rural Victoria.

Works

ISFDB is one source, which Webb's website incorporates with modification.

Non-fiction

  • Aliens & Savages: Fiction, Politics and Prejudice in Australia, by Webb and Andrew Enstice
  • Fantastic Self: Essays on the Subject of the Self, edited by Webb and Enstice

    Fiction as editor

  • Dreaming Down-Under, Webb and Jack Dann – anthology, reissued 1999–2000 in 2 vols.
  • Yellow Wave: A Romance of the Asiatic Invasion of Australia, by Kenneth Mackay, Webb and Enstice – 1895 novel

    Novels

The Sinbad Chronicles
  • Sailing to Atlantis
  • The Silken Road to Samarkand
Dragons of Hong Kong
  • The Dragon's Child – novella
  • ''The Gold-Jade Dragon''

    Short fiction

  • "Death at the Blue Elephant" in Enter: HQ/Flamingo Short Story Collection
  • "Niagara Falling" in Black Mist and Other Japanese Futures
  • "Incident on Wolfe Street" in HQ Magazine Jan/Feb 2000
  • "Ali Baba and the Forty Aliens" in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales
  • "The Fire-eater's Tale" in Strange Attraction
  • "Gawain and the Selkie's Daughter" in The Road to Camelot
  • "Tigershow" in Agog! Terrific Tales
  • "Blake's Angel" in Gathering the Bones
  • "Red City" in Year's Best SF 10
  • "The Lion Hunt" in Conqueror Fantastic
  • "A Faust Films Production" in Little Red Riding Hood in the Big Bad City,
  • "Paradise Design'd" in Dreaming Again, ed. Jack Dann; rpt. in Novascapes,
  • "Future Perfect" in Use Only As Directed
  • Death and the Blue Elephant – collection of 18 stories

    Essays

  • "The Vampire of Shalott" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1993
  • "Post-Romantic Romance: Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana and A Song for Arbonne" in The New York Review of Science Fiction January 1995,
  • "Introduction" in Dreaming Down-Under
  • "Introduction" and "Notes" in The Yellow Wave, by Kenneth Mackay
  • "Foreword" in The Summer Tree, ed. Guy Gavriel Kay