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Yvonne Rousseau

Yvonne Rousseau is author of The Murders at Hanging Rock.

Yvonne Rousseau reviews ‘The Beast of Heaven’ by Victor Kelleher

February–March 1984, no. 58 01 February 1984
The dawn and the evening of the world, alike, are seeding-grounds of myth and archetype: the distant past, when chthonic Ancestors are imagined to have emerged from a landscape of rocks and dust – the post-holocaust world of the future, where a landscape of rocks and dust is imagined to have emerged as fruit of hidden and poisonous seeds within the human psyche. ... (read more)

Yvonne Rousseau reviews ‘The Dreaming Dragons’ by Damien Broderick

May 1981, no. 30 07 May 1981
The epigraph to The Dreaming Dragons suggests that melodrama can accomplish ‘the articulation of the unsayable’. Accordingly, this book evokes transpersonal consciousness through the medium of a gripping plot, whose effect of conveying ‘the unsayable’ is only heightened by the fact that the writer and his words sometimes seem at odds with one another. Thus, ‘the midday sun took barrenne ... (read more)

Yvonne Rousseau reviews 'Thor’s Hammer' by Wynne Whiteford, 'The Tempting of the Witch King' by Russell Blackford, and 'Kelly Country' by A. Bertram Chandler

May 1984, no. 60 01 May 1984
Colonised asteroids, plentiful spaceships, an Astrogold Corporation tower approached by aircar: these are tokens of a world soothingly remote from present-day anxieties. But in Thor’s Hammer by Wynne Whiteford (Cory & Collins, 150 pp, $3.95 pb), the euphoric sense of disconnection has extended rather too far. It is the twenty-first century, and a renegade from Astrogold has threatened ... (read more)