Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xiii • Introduction (Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand) • essay by Tim Jones and Mark Pirie
• 3 • The Poetry of the Future • poem by Anna Rugis
• 4 • To a Science-Fiction Writer • poem by Louis Johnson
• 5 • 2000 A.D. • (1966) • poem by A. R. D. Fairburn
• 7 • In Your Dream • poem by Janet Charman
• 9 • Utopia • (1982) • poem by Bill Sewell
• 11 • Time Traveller • (2004) • poem by Alistair Paterson
• 14 • Einstein's Theory Simply Explained • poem by David Gregory (I)
• 15 • Note to the Aliens • (2003) • poem by John Dolan and Jenny Powell
• 16 • In the Future When We Grow New Brains • poem by Raewyn Alexander
• 17 • F/S • (2001) • poem by Alan Brunton
• 18 • Nanosphere • (2008) • poem by Harvey Molloy
• 20 • Two Kinds of Time • poem by Meliors Simms
• 21 • Out of Time • poem by Jack Perkins
• 22 • Black Hole • poem by Jacqueline Crompton Ottaway
• 23 • Good Solid Work • (2005) • poem by Tim Jones
• 27 • The Siege of Dunedin • (2003) • poem by John Dolan
• 29 • Overseasia • (2001) • poem by David Eggleton
• 31 • Looking at Kapiti • (2005) • poem by Alastair Te Ariki Campbell
• 32 • The World Catastrophe • (1982) • poem by Bill Sewell
• 34 • Satellites • (1988) • poem by Rachell McAlpine
• 36 • 60-Second Warning • (1988) • poem by David Eggleton
• 38 • The End of the World • (2000) • poem by Meg Campbell
• 39 • The Last Day of the World • (2004) • poem by Vivienne Plumb
• 40 • Four Poems from the Strontium Age • (1957) • poem by Louis Johnson
• 44 • Nuclear Family - A Fragment • (2003) • poem by Michael O'Leary
• 45 • Still Centre • (2008) • poem by Ruth Gilbert
• 46 • Last Song (excerpt) • poem by Fleur Adcock
• 47 • Lee: A Science Fiction Poem (excerpt) • poem by Rob Jackaman
• 50 • Thin Air • (1975) • poem by Marilyn Duckworth
• 51 • An Aftermath • (1991) • poem by Fiona Kidman
• 52 • Instructions About Global Warming • (2008) • poem by Kevin Ireland
• 57 • Karen Carpenter Calls Interplanetary Craft • (2006) • poem by Iain Sharp
• 58 • The Thermostatic Man • (1963) • poem by Gordon Challis
• 59 • They're Keeping Tabs • (1976) • poem by Trevor Reeves
• 62 • Metastasis • poem by Mary Cresswell
• 63 • Japan 2030 • (2002) • poem by Simon Williamson
• 64 • Kron • (1975) • poem by Tony Beyer
• 66 • Love Among the Daleks • poem by Louis Johnson
• 67 • Planet One • (1994) • poem by Sean McMahon
• 68 • Beside the Laughing Kitchen • poem by Janis Freegard
• 69 • Rituals • poem by Thomas Mitchell
• 70 • Vis Imaginitiva • (1991) • poem by Alan Brunton
• 72 • After the Disaster • (2004) • poem by Harvey McQueen
• 74 • Space Age Lover • poem by Jenny Argante
• 75 • Hypnogogia • poem by Chris Else
• 77 • The Ascent • (2007) • poem by James Norcliffe
• 79 • Gas (excerpt) • poem by Fleur Adcock
• 87 • Signs of Activity • (2004) • poem by Vivienne Plumb
• 88 • UFO's in Autumn • (1986) • poem by Michael Morrissey
• 90 • A Spaceship Has Landed Near Nuhaka • (1984) • poem by Andrew Fagin
• 91 • Dreams of Alien Love • (1983) • poem by Aalix Roake [as by Dana Bryce]
• 92 • Contact • (2007) • poem by Tracie McBride
• 93 • In Truth or Consequences • (2008) • poem by Cliff Fell
• 95 • The Art of Translation • (2008) • poem by Nelson Wattie
• 96 • This Machine Kills Aliens • (2000) • poem by Phil Kawana
• 98 • Are the Andromedans Like Us • (1988) • poem by Michael Morrissey
• 99 • Dan and His Amazing Cat • (2007) • poem by Mark Pirie
• 100 • Great Minds • poem by James Digman
• 101 • The Purple Fantastic, Feels Like Elastic, Spangled and Plastic Ray Gun • poem by Cath Randle
• 102 • An Alien's Notes on First Seeing a Prunus-Plum Tree • poem by Jane Matheson
• 103 • Return • (2008) • poem by Harvey McQueen
• 105 • Awakening • (2004) • poem by Owen Marshall
• 106 • An Old Man and Science Fiction • (1958) • poem by Peter Bland
• 109 • Crab Nebula • (2008) • poem by Katherine Liddy
• 110 • Death Star • (2001) • poem by Anna Jackson
• 112 • Manned Mission to the Green Planet • (2001) • poem by Stephen Oliver
• 113 • Three Poems • (1981) • poem by Hilaire Kirkland
• 115 • Hey Man, Wow! "Jimi Hendrix" • (2003) • poem by Michael O'Leary
• 116 • Lift-Off • (2001) • poem by Robin Fry
• 117 • Touchdown • (2007) • poem by Tim Jones
• 118 • The First Artist on Mars • (2007) • poem by Tim Jones
• 120 • Saturn's Rings • poem by Puri Alvarez
• 121 • Star Waka (excerpt) • poem by Robert Sullivan
• 123 • "We're Thinking of Going Into Space" • (1997) • poem by Chris Pigott
• 124 • Liam Going • (2007) • poem by Mark Pirie
• 125 • Departing Takaparawha • poem by Iain Britton
• 127 • The Imaginary Voyage • (1982) • poem by Bill Sewell
• 129 • Voyagers • poem by Rachel Bush
• 130 • Letter to an Astronomer • (2005) • poem by Stephen Oliver
• 135 • Tabloid Headlines • (1995) • poem by Helen Rickerby
• 136 • The Verdigris Critic • (2005) • poem by Sue Wootten
• 137 • Mill Pond Poems (excerpt) • poem by Richard von Sturmer
• 138 • Earth Star • (1992) • poem by Brian Turner
• 140 • The Thirst That Can Never Be Slaked • poem by Gary Forrester
• 141 • Your Being • (2002) • poem by David Karena-Holmes
• 142 • In Which I Materialize, Horribly Maimed, in the Transporter Room of the Enterprise • (1995) • poem by John Dolan
• 144 • The Rescue Mission • poem by Mark Pirie
• 147 • Lament of the Imperfect Copy of Ensign Harry Kim • poem by Tze Ming Mok
• 150 • Somewhere Else • poem by Nic Hill
• 151 • The Stars, Natasha • (2001) • poem by Tim Jones
• 152 • My Personal Universe • (2003) • poem by Mike Webber
• 154 • Space & Time • (1982) • poem by Bill Sewell