Polack, Gillian

Gillian Polack

Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction novels and short stories

Gillian Polack is an Australian speculative fiction writer.

Her first novel, Illuminations, was published late in 2002 and her second, The Art of Effective Dreaming, will be out soon. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines. When she is not writing, Gillian is a medieval historian who both works with fiction writers and studies them. She maintains a blog to inflict these and other activities on an unsuspecting world at Gillian’s Blog

Trivium Publishing Author Interview with Gillian Polack

Information about her novels can be found on her website GillianPolack.com

or at her publisher’s website Trivium Publishing

Gillian Polack short stories

Happy Faces for Happy Families by Gillian Polack
First published by Encounters, CSFG Publishing

Phil as a man; Phil aged nine — can the child reconcile the adult after his father’s unethical scientific meddling tears apart his family? Phil spends time looking in the mirror, trying to make it so. (science fiction)

Happy Faces for Happy Families was first published in an Australian anthology Encounters, in 2004, and was listed on Ellen Datlow’s recommended list of short stories for that year.