Author Information

Knockers (with Liam Thorpe)

The Royal Doultons (with Liam Thorpe, in development)

Quiver (Tamsyn Webb Chronicles #1), Argonautica Press (reprinted by Outland Entertainment)

Go to Hell (Tamsyn Webb Chronicles #2), Argonautica Press

Dead Last (Tamsyn Webb Chronicles #3), Argonautica Press (forthcoming)

Papa Lucy & the Boneman (The Books of Before and Now #1), Outland Entertainment (Finalist, Best Novel, 2021 Australian Shadows Awards, Finalist, Best Science Fiction Novel and Best Horror Novel, 2021 Aurealis Awards, Finalist, Best Novel, 2022 Ditmar Awards)

The Jawbone & The Junkman (The Books of Before and Now #2), Outland Entertainment

The Bride & The Birdman (The Books of Before and Now #3), Outland Entertainment

Bullets & Bleedthroughs: The Roleplaying Game, Outland Entertainment

Everything is a Graveyard, Ticonderoga Publications

Seven Threads (self-published chapbook)

Ladyflies, Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 20 Issue 4)

By the Laws of Crab and Woman, Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 17 Issue 6) (Finalist, Best Fantasy Novella, 2016 Aurealis Awards, Shortlisted, Best Novella/Novelette, 2017 Ditmar Awards)

Defy the Grey Kings, Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Winner, Best Fantasy Novella, 2015 Aurealis Awards, reprinted at PodCastle)

Percy’s War, Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 12 Issue 2)

Everything is a Graveyard, Everything is a Graveyard (collection), Ticonderoga Publications (reprinted in Dimension 6 Magazine)

After the World: Better Red Than Undead, Black House Comics

After the World: Army Corpse, Black House Comics

(with Steven Savile) Viral: Anomaly

After The World: Corpus Christi, Black House Comics

After The World: Gravesend, Black House Comics (shortlisted, Best Novella/Novelette, 2010 Ditmar Awards, Finalist, Best Horror Novel, 2010 Aurealis Awards)

Tremble, City of Salisbury

A City Beneath (And How to Hide From It), Fission #3 (British Science Fiction Association)

Brother Bound, Secrets In Scarlet: Arkham Horror #18 (Aconyte Books)

Asleep Beneath the Dripping, Cthulhu: Deep Down Under Vol 3, (IFWG Publishing)

Of Meat and Man, SNAFU: Last Stand (shortlisted – Best Horror Short Story, 2019 Aurealis Awards)

Posse Comitatus, Dimension 6

Mutata Superesse, Mission Critical

Riding the Snails, War of the Worlds: Battleground Australia (shortlisted – Best Science Fiction Short Story, 2019 Aurealis Awards)

Milk and Honey, Ecopunk!

She Says, Island Magazine Issue #148

The Dog Pit, Cthulhu: Deep Down Under (Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year Volume 8, reprinted in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015,reprinted in Pseudopod)

When the Cheerful Misogynist Came to True-Town, Everything is a Graveyard (collection)

The Glorious Aerybeth, On Spec Magazine #97 (Finalist, Best Science Fiction Short Story, 2014 Aurealis Awards)

L’Hombre, Everything is a Graveyard (collection)

Art, Ink (with Martin Livings), Antipodean SF #180

Day One of the Fog, After the World Magazine

Pigroot Flat, Midnight Echo #8 (Finalist, Short Fiction Category, 2012 Australian Shadows Awards, reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012)

Rolling for Fetch, Aurealis Magazine #49

Eating Gnashdal, “Anywhere but Earth”, Couer De Lion Publishing

A Clockwork Arthur, After the World Magazine #3

Two Kinds of Sleep, Every Day Fiction

Goggy, Midnight Echo #5 (winner 2010 AHWA Flash Fiction Competition)

Hunting Rufus, Midnight Echo #5 (reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011)

Goodnights to Heaven, Necroscope

The Ward of Hours, An Eclectic Slice of Life

gunning for a tinkerman, Aurealis Magazine #44 (Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year Volume 3)

The School Bus, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46 (Highly Recommended, HorrorScope 2010 Recommended Reading List, reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror Vol 1)

The House of Nameless, Writers of the Future Vol XXVI (shortlisted, Best Short Story, 2011 Ditmar Awards, Recommended Reading List, Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror Vol 1)

Sebastian, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44 (Recommended, HorrorScope 2010 Recommended Reading List)

Starship Zamedi, Zombonauts anthology

Busking, Midnight Echo #3 (winner 2009 AHWA Short Story Competition, Finalist 2009 Australian Shadows Awards – Short fiction, reprinted in Award Winning Australian Writing 2010)

Inventory, Brain Harvest

for want of a jesusman, Aurealis #42 (Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year Vol 2, reprinted in Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 5)

Houndkin, Eclecticism #9 (reprinted in An Eclectic Slice of Life)

A Rose for Becca, Borderlands #11 (Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year Vol 2, reprinted in Spawn: Weird Horror Tales about Pregnancy, Birth and Babies, IFWG Publishing (forthcoming))

The Imogen Effect, Farrago’s Wainscot

The Patchwork Palace, “Masques” edited by CSFG (Honorable Mention in Best Horror of the Year Vol 2)

Plebiscite AV3X, Apex Magazine (reprinted in “Descended from Darkness” anthology)

Rick Gets a Job, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #37 (Finalist, 2008 Australian Shadows Awards)

Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh, “Dreaming Again” edited by Jack Dann (Honorable Mention in the Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection)

A Bride Beyond the Gate, Antipodean SF #121

Blue Hands, Dog Vs Sandwich, March 2008

Toilet Town, Antipodean SF #108

Seed, Antipodean SF #96

Empire’s End, Antipodean SF #91

Pokeman, Antipodean SF #90

Mummy Come Quick, Antipodean SF #87

Kindness, Visions Newsletter #29

Fantasy Story, Antipodean SF #82

Song for the Lost, Antipodean SF #80

Planets to Avoid, Australian Science Fiction Forum, October 2004

The Anubis Device, Antipodean SF #75

The Dog Pit, Pseudopod #540

Defy the Grey Kings, PodCastle #438

Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh, Terra Incognita SF Podcast #26

for want of a jesusman, Terra Incognita SF Podcast #18

Treasure of Light, Story City

(Book 1 of the Books of Before & Now, Outland Entertainment)

“Fischer mixes multiple genres in the superbly crafted dark science fantasy that launches his Books of Before & Now series….(he) expertly weaves the intricate plot, desolate landscapes, and fierce characters into an immersive mythology. This masterful work of imagination delivers adventure and thrills to more than satisfy readers of all fantasy and science fiction genres.” – Starred review, Publisher’s Weekly

“Papa Lucy and The Boneman is a feast for the imagination. It includes horrifying imagery, bone-chilling magics, and grotesque creatures. It is a world I did not want to leave. I am all too eager for book two.” – Carrie Chi Lough, Grimdark Magazine

Goodreads reviews:

“The world-building is phenomenal, the reader is thrown into the deep end and things get revealed as you limp through a broken wasteland of pain and gods.”

“Intricate worldbuilding. Heroes who know they are bad genuinely bad people, and villains who believe themselves to be noble and pure. This book has everything I love: cannibals and mutants and witches and weird vehicles and magical shotguns and cargo cult religions gone awfully wrong.”

“This was a excellent read. Incredible world-building, strong, believable characters, an ending that makes you want to read the next book. And I can’t wait.”

(Collection, Ticonderoga Publications)

“If you haven’t been reading Jason Fischer, your literary diet is lacking in zest, zing, and essential vitamins. ‘Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh’ is alone worth the price of admission here.” – Gardner Dozois

“Of all these writers, Jason Fischer is the one who, to my outsider sensibility at least, feels the most Australian, with stories that simply couldn’t happen anywhere other than a land down under…an engaging and thoroughly enjoyable collection showcasing a strong new voice with a distinctive vision.” – Peter Tennant, Black Static #39 (http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/)

“Jason Fischer’s new collection of short stories, Everything is a Graveyard, might perhaps be more accurately titled ‘Everything is going to kill you’. Featuring dimension-shifting, soul-sucking witches, a ravening horde of undead camels, and murderous, amputation-happy rednecks—among other things—Everything is a Graveyard is full of messy endings for the few poor souls who inhabit its post- apocalyptic worlds.” – Alex Stevenson, Aurealis Magazine #69 (http://aurealisblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/aurealis/)

“Without a doubt Everything is a Graveyard contains a wealth of left-field undead storytelling. But that’s not the whole story. Fischer’s apocalyptic obsessions cover much wider ground than that, from sheer fantasy to the realism of the ever-present threat of dropbears. If zombie tropes, and indeed all apocalypse stories, are about our personal and social attitudes to mortality (and they are), Fischer explores the personal and social absurdities and profundities like few before him.” – Robert Hood

“Jason Fischer’s first collection Everything Is A Graveyard is arguably the best release of tales to chill by this year. A very solid collection of post apocalyptic stories that have a uniqueness about them that will provide you with hours of entertainment while making you wonder why on earth this Author hasn’t released a collection previously. As expected Ticonderoga Publication have produced a polished release that simply states professionalism. Excellent release that is one of the must have books of 2013. Do not miss this collection, it’s destined for cult status, highest recommendation folks.” – ScaryMinds (http://scaryminds.com/reviews/2013/book182.php)

“Fischer has created several distinct worlds in this short book. Some completely unfamiliar, many quintessentially Australian, and a couple that beg for their own full length story to explore their potential complexity. All of them are vividly drawn and memorable. Possibly too memorable.” – Jean M Gordon, Antipodean SF (http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20140808-0019/www.antisf.com.au/antisf-reviews/1417-everything-is-a-graveyard-by-jason-fischer.html)

(Novel, Black House Comics)

“Jason Fischer has embraced the pulp novella, embraced everything about zombie stories and combined them into something equal parts familiar and refreshingly original. If you’re a fan of zombie action, bow-wielding badass heroines and good pulpy fun you should really check out Quiver.” – Alan Baxter, Thirteen O’Clock (http://www.thirteenoclock.com.au/quiver-by-jason-fischer/)

“Tamsyn’s age and archery skills will draw inevitable comparisons with Katniss Everdeen. While I loved The Hunger Games, I have to say I would rather spend an afternoon with Tamsyn than Katniss. Tamsyn is far more optimistic. She is competent, funny, determined-but-vulnerable, and very believable. The kind of girl I would have given up my entire comic book collection for, for a single date. ” – Scott T Barnes, New Myths (https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/books-we-are-reading/quiver)

” The writing is excellent (as I’ve come to expect from Fischer), and the story finds a good balance with showing the world spanning nature of the crisis (mainly through the wide variety of locations visited), while keeping the main narrative more intimate (through focusing on Tamsyn’s story). Fischer creates a very horrific environment, both in terms of the description of the zombies themselves, but also the reaction of the human race.” – Mark Webb (http://www.markwebb.name/?p=1767)

“Fast-paced, violent and clever, QUIVER goes well beyond the tired tropes of the zombie apocalypse genre without ever stooping to parody. You should read it.” – Jason Franks (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16430960-quiver-volume-1-the-tamsyn-webb-chronicles)

“The book is a big read that should have a few people squirming as the gore hits the page, but Fischer never drops his narrative edge from first page to last page. A solid example of decent writing in a ghetto sub genre Quiver kept my attention, and more importantly didn’t bounce me off the page, as the journey went increasingly more surreal.” – ScaryMinds (http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2013/book161.php)

“…QUIVER encapsulates many of the tried and true formulas common to survival horror; the building of fortifications, scavenging, zombie (or coffin-dodger) hoards and their migration, the fall of Government and the rise of independent parties, but the most important component of this zombie post apocalyptic concoction is the humans themselves who are commonly more inhumane than the walking dead. Fischer goes to great lengths to portray a dead world whose living souls are rotten and more menacing than those who threaten to end mans existence.” – OzNoir(http://justaguythatlikes2read.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/review-quiver-by-jason-fischer.html)

On Spec #97

“Combining an original premise, fascinating aliens with an intriguing culture and a few neat plot twists, this is an excellent piece of work. It’s the best hard Science Fiction short story I’ve read this year and should be up for awards.” – Eamonn Murphy, SF Crows Nest (http://sfcrowsnest.org.uk/on-spec-the-canadian-magazine-of-the-fantastic-vol-26-no-2-97-magazine-review/)

“Overall, a rich story with a protagonist whose character is wonderfully flawed, giving us a glimpse into a xenopsychology as relating to a completely foreign culture.” – Colleen Chen, Tangent Online (http://www.tangentonline.com/print–quarterly-reviewsmenu-261/on-spec-reviewsmenu-73/2560-on-spec-97-summer-2014)

“The characters here belong to an alien species obsessed with personal status, as measured by their plumage, and their technology is biological. Gannet is a high-status ship-breeder who has suffered a career setback, for which he is sent on a mission to report on the possibility of alien life that may have been discovered by the eponymous blood-ship. Gannet’s people and their creations are not very nice…This one could have read as either horror or humor, but the humor prevails, making it difficult to take the horrific aspects of the tale seriously. Those not overly-sensitive should find it imaginatively entertaining” – Lois Tilton, Locus Online (http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/#onspec2014su)

Midnight Echo #8 (Australian Horror Writers Association)

“PIGROOT FLAT by Jason Fischer flips the script on zombie horror by introducing an all too real horror amidst the dust and desolate Australian outback. I particularly liked the living dead in PIGROOT FLAT as being objectified as mere obstacles while the true horror flourishes behind the face of the living.” – OzNoir (http://justaguythatlikes2read.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/review-midnight-echo-8.html)

“Ensuring the local market is well represent Jason Fischer drops Pigroot Flat on us to finish the issue. A zombie tale that is so insanely different that it deserves every accolade and award that comes its way. Zombies just want to have fun, feral pig rampages, and psycho killers. Who let Fischer off the chain with this one?” – Scaryminds (http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2013/magazine21.php)

Anywhere but Earth (Couer De Lion)

“Of the rest, I am hard pressed to pick a favourite, but I will mention that “Eating Gnashdal”, Jason Fischer’s horrific vision of a post-human culture, is inventively funny and creepy” – Dave Versace, Goodreads review (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/443682008)

Terra #1

“Still in keeping with the serialised nature of the magazine, “Tusk” plumbs the Golden Age of genre fiction with something that could have come right out of an early 70s issue of Analog. “Tusk” is straight prose — with a few Rhys James illustrations sprinkled throughout — of the sort that Mr Fischer has become well known for: tight, well written, original and more than a little bit gonzo. “Tusk” is The Planet of the Pachyderms with a healthy dash of Robert E Howard thrown in. A post-apocalyptic world run by a civilisation of war-like elephants. Talking warrior elephants, no less. Who enslave humans. And they wear ‘swords’ on their tusks! Count me in! Not only are the battle scenes tremendous, but there are hints of a much deeper story developing here. I very much look forward to reading more of “Tusk” in future issues.” – Andrew McKiernan, Thirteen O’Clock (http://www.thirteenoclock.com.au/review-terra-magazine-issue-1/)

Aurealis #49

“I am a big and growing fan of Jason Fischer‘s work, and Rolling for Fetch did not disappoint. Fischer describes a dystopian world of energy shortages and reverted transportation where some gangs have their feet replaced with wheels and perform couriering services. It is an excellent dissection of a transient subculture and the impact of what is essentially a fad where radical surgery is an option (and you thought you might regret that tattoo you got at university – at least you didn’t replace your feet with wheels!).” – Mark Webb (http://www.markwebb.name/?p=936)

“Rolling For Fetch by Jason Fisher is a dazzling story set in an unspecified period. The story opens with the character Whip being converted to a Skeg. His legs are amputated and a skeg rig fused to his shin-bone, a dive train is rigged to pneumatic tyres and he is no longer a typical human. Whip earns his gangdanna and joins a cruising mob who dash through metro traffic, wild like hornets. Jason Fisher creates a fascinating world where technology and nano science freely mix with nineteenth century horse cart and with steam bikes. Whip eventually gives up everything for love, but his physical modification has implications. ” – John Athol Henry (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/148123)

“Taut and thrilling – this is the second in the Viral series of orginal and clever thrillers that looks at the same story from different perspectives. Following the same energetic and wild ride of -30-, Anomaly is a fast ride through the dark secrets and motives behind Aid in Africa. Like its predecessor – the dilemma lies in which version of events to reveal for the greater good – and the choices are skilfully and cleverly handled.” – customer review, Barnes and Noble (http://my.barnesandnoble.com/communityportal/Reviews.aspx?reviewid=2397594&pagestart=0&sort=)

“Jason (who normally writes Science Fiction/ Horror) and Steven have turned out a very nice thriller. The equal in skill and tone of any of the good thriller writers out there today: Eisler, Childs, or Finder.” – Sean the Bookonaut (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007RQWMEM)

“Hold onto your knickers kids, Jason Fischer delivers his long awaited sequel to After the World: Gravesend…Fischer once again knocks one out of the ball park and for sure I’m now sweating on another chapter in this series.” – Scaryminds (http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/2012/magazine19.php) (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/148123)