Alex Isle

Alex Isle is an Australian author. He writes both novels and short stories in the science fiction/fantasy genre, as well as books and articles of nonfiction, for both adult and young adult audiences.

In 2014 Isle changed his name from Susan to Alex to reflect a gender identity change and adopted the male pronouns. Publications before 2014 are under the name Sue Isle.^[1]

Isle's books include the young adult novel Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf (1996),^[2] about a rebellious teen in an alternate world 16th century joining a group of sorceresses, and nonfiction children's book Wolf Children (1998), as well as a collection of post-apocalyptic stories set in Perth, Nightsiders, published in 2011.^[3] Isle has sold numerous stories to publications such as Aurealis, Orb, ASIM, Agog, Sword and Sorceress, Tales of the Unanticipated (USA) and Shiny, a YA fiction magazine.

Isle's other interests include history, science fiction conventions, roleplay gaming, gardening and working out how best to turn his hometown into a post-apocalypse scenario.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Novel

Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf (1996)

Nonfiction

Wolf Children (1998)

Collection

Nightsiders (2011)

Short fiction

"To Here the Midnight Fled" in Thyme Fiction 2 (1989?)
"Her Father's Daughter" (1990) in Sword And Sorceress VII (ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley)
"Nightwings" (1990) in Aurealis #1 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"The Last Guardian" (1990) in Glass Reptile Breakout and other Australian Speculative Stories (ed. Van Ikin)
"Remembering Names" (1991) in Aurealis #4 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"A Sprig of Aconite" (1992) in Intimate Armageddons (ed. Bill Congreve)
"Daybreak" (1992) in Aurealis #8 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"Makeover" (1993) in Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror (ed. Leigh Blackmore)
"Kill Me Once" (1994) in Alien Shores : An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction (ed. Peter McNamara, Margaret Winch)
"A Sky Full of Ravens" (1995) in She's Fantastical
"Ice Harvest" (1995) in Aurealis #16 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"Chadriki Dance" (1998) in Tales of the Unanticipated, August 1998 (ed. Eric M. Heideman)
"Habits of Empire" (1998) in Aurealis #20/21 (ed. Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser)
"Sisterchild" (1999) in Orb Speculative Fiction #0 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
"The Woman of Endor" (2001) in Orb Speculative Fiction #2 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
"Life and a Chance" (2001) in Tales of the Unanticipated #22 (ed. Eric M. Heideman)
"Amy's Stars" (2003) in Orb Speculative Fiction #5 (ed. Sarah Endacott)
"Catbones" (2003) in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Issue #5 (ed. Danuta Shaw)
"Witness of Blood" (2003) in Agog! Terrific Tales (ed. Cat Sparks)
"Doing Shadow Time" (2003) in Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural (ed. Bill Congreve)
"Dog Years" (2004) in Aurealis #32 (ed. Keith Stevenson
"Mary Bennet Goes Postal" (2005) in Tales of the Unanticipated #26 (ed. Eric M. Heideman)
"Daughter of the Red Cranes" (2006) in Agog! Ripping Reads (ed. Cat Sparks)
"Mary Bennet Gets a Life" (2006) in Borderlands #7
"The Sun People" (2007) Shiny (magazine) #2 (ed. Alisa Krasnostein)
"Heartsblood" (2008) in Tales of the Unanticipated #29 (ed. Eric M. Heideman)
"I Can Run Faster" (2008) in Aurealis #41 (ed. Stuart Mayne)
"Paper Dragons" (2008)
"Candle to the Devil" [New Ceres Nights] (2009) Twelfth Planet Press
"Nightsiders" [collection of short fiction by Sue Isle] 2011 by Twelfth Planet Press
Mars Peacemaker" in Review of Australian Fiction (2013)
"The Kind Neighbours of Hell" (2014) in Use Only As Directed (ed. Simon Petrie, Edwina Harvey)^[4]