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The Weird Colonial Boy book. A black comedy by the author of And Disregards the Rest  . Details (if other): Cancel. Thanks for telling us about the problem. The Weird Colonial Boy. by. Paul Voermans.

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The Weird Colonial Boy. (1993) A novel by Paul Voermans. March 1994 : UK Paperback. A black comedy by the author of "And Disregards the Rest". Nigel is a nerd, a drongo, with gangling limbs and terminal acne. When he follows one of his tropical fish into a different world he finds himself still in Australia - but an Australia which, although it's 1978, is still a penal colony. Genre: Urban Fantasy. 11 Mar 1993) English. To boldly go, dare we say it, where no publisher has gone before. Includes delivery to Russia.

Paul Voermans was born in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia, of Indo ancestry. The Weird Colonial Boy" was also shortlisted for the Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award and the Ditmar, and was published in German by Heyne. Brought up in Melbourne, he attended a Clarion Workshop-style, writing course at Monash University at the age of 16 and his first story appeared in "The View from the Edge" (George Turner, e. shortly afterwards. In 1978 he left a drama/media course to found a community theatre company, B'Spell, which utilized Commedia dell'arte, puppetry and cabaret to produce theatre for unions, festivals, schools and clubs.

The Wild Colonial Boy" is a traditional anonymous Irish-Australian ballad of which there are many different versions, the most prominent being the Irish and Australian versions. The original was about Jack Donahue, an Irish rebel who became a convict, then a bushranger, and was eventually shot dead by police.

VOERMANS, PAUL (stories). A boy goes back to his father’s childhood and comes to understand him as an adult. And Disregards the Rest (Gollancz 0-575-05143-4, Feb ’92, £1. 9, 256pp, hc) Sf novel. And Disregards the Rest (Gollancz 0-575-05282-1, Mar ’93, £. 9, 256pp, pb, cover by Danny Flynn) Reprint (Gollancz 1992) sf novel. The Weird Colonial Boy (Gollancz 0-575-05715-7, Mar ’94, £. 9, 302pp, pb, cover by Steve Read) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) sf novel set in a parallel world Australia in 1978.

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