Rosaleen Love (born 1940) is an Australian science journalist and writer. She has a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne. She has written works on the Great Barrier Reef and other science or conservation topics.[1] She has also written science fiction, which has been noted for her use of irony and feminism.[2] She has been nominated for the Ditmar Award six times,[3] and won the Chandler Award in 2009.
Collections
- The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories (1989)
- Evolution Annie and Other Stories (1993)
- Secret Lives of Books (2014)
Chapterbooks
- The Traveling Tide (2005)
Short fiction
- "The Laws of Life" (1985) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Trickster" (1986) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Alexia and Graham Bell" (1986) in Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine, Summer 1986/1987 (ed. Peter McNamara)
- "No Resting Place" (1987) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Sea-Serpent of Sandy Cape" (1987) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Power Play" (1987) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Invisible Woman" (1988) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "If You Go Down to the Park Today" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Total Devotion Machine" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Bat Mania" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Tanami Drift" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Dolphins and Deep Thought" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Bottomless Pit" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Where Are They?" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Children Don't Leave Home Any More" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Tea Room Tapes" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "Tremendous Potential for Tourism" (1989) in The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories
- "The Heavenly City, Perhaps" (1990) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "Hovering Rock" (1990) in Aurealis #2 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
- "Turtle Soup" (1990) in Eidolon (Australian magazine), Spring 1990 (ed. Jeremy G. Byrne)
- "Cosmic Dusting" (1991) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "Evolution Annie" (1991) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "The Palace of the Soul" (1991) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "Strange Things Grow at Chernobyl" (1991) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "Blue Venom" (1991) in Eidolon (Australian magazine), Spring 1991 (ed. Jeremy G. Byrne)
- "Holiness" (1992) in Intimate Armageddons (ed. Bill Congreve)
- "Mortal Remains" (1993) in Crank!, Fall 1993 (ed. Bryan Cholfin)
- "Starbaby" (1993) in Overland Summer 1993
- "A Pattern to Life" (1993) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "The Daughters of Darius" (1993) in Evolution Annie and Other Stories
- "Bubbles in the Cosmic Saucepan" (1993) in The Traveling Tide
- "Sex and Death" (1995) in Eidolon (Australian magazine), Winter 1995 (ed. Jeremy G. Byrne)
- "The Reef Builders" (1997) with Karen Joy Fowler and Maureen F. McHugh and Terry Bisson in Omni Online, May 1997 (ed. Ellen Datlow)
- "Alexander's Feats" (1997) in Eidolon (Australian magazine), Issue 25/26 (ed. Jeremy G. Byrne, Richard Scriven)
- "Real Men" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)
- "Two Recipes for Magic Beans" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)
- "The Worst Thing in the World" (1999) in Ghosts and Ghoulies (ed. Paul Collins, Meredith Costain)
- "The Gate of Heaven" (2003) in Forever Shores (ed. Margaret Winch, Peter McNamara)
- "In the Shadow of the Stones" (2003) in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
- "The Raptures of the Deep" (2003) in Gathering the Bones (ed. Ramsey Campbell, Jack Dann, Dennis Etchison)
- "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" (2005) in Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales (ed. Robin Pen, Robert Hood), and The Traveling Tide
- "GoGo" (2005) in The Traveling Tide
- "Wanderer 8" (2005) in The Elastic Book of Numbers (ed. Allen Ashley)
Anthologies edited
- If Atoms Could Talk (1987)
Non-fiction
- Reefscape: Reflections on the Great Barrier Reef (2000)
Essays
- Ursula K. le Guin and Therolinguistics (1998)
- The Onion Skin Theory of Identity, the Paint Pot Theory of Gender, and the Blu-Tack Theory of Position (1999)
- Star Drover (2001)
- In Tribulation and with Jubilee: On Pilgrimage with Bridie King (2005)