![]() The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution. Rousseau also published a useful critical study of Cherry Wilder's work, Minmers Marooned and Planet of the Marsupials: The Science Fiction Novels of Cherry Wilder ( 1997 chap). Overview Joan Lindsay's classic novel Picnic At Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period of Australian social life drawn with loving nostalgia. This included several examples of her meticulously researched criticism others appeared in Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, The Metaphysical Review, Science Fiction Eye and SF Commentary. ![]() She was a member of "The Science Fiction Collective" that edited and published the Ditmar Award-winning Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series 1986-1991. Her The Murders at Hanging Rock ( 19) is a remarkable jeux-d'esprit study of Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1967) by Joan Lindsay, whose four mutually incompatible approaches to the novel's central mystery include analyses in terms of classical detective fiction, Hermetic magic and Australian Dreamtime Fantastika when the cut final chapter of Picnic at Hanging Rock was published as The Secret of Hanging Rock ( 1987 chap), including "A Commentary on Chapter Eighteen" by Rousseau, the enigmatic "solution" did indeed prove fantastical in nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() (1945-2021) Australian author, editor and critic whose first published fiction of genre interest was "The Truth About Oscar" (22 December 1981 The Bulletin in Matilda at the Speed of Light, anth 1988, ed Damien Broderick). ![]()
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