Ben Peek

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Ben Michael Peek

Ben Peek at the 2007 World Fantasy Convention
Born October 12, 1976
Sydney, New South Wales
Genres Speculative fiction
Official website

Ben Peek (October 12, 1976, Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael.

Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Fantasy Magazine and Aurealis. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called The Urban Sprawl Project, a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal. In 2006 his autobiography, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, was published by Wheatland Press. In 2007, Black Sheep, a dystopian novel, was published by Prime Books.

Peek holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Western Sydney, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales, during which he wrote the novel A Year in the City. His reviews have appeared on several websites including, PopImage, Sequential Tart, and Strange Horizons. In 2005 he interviewed over forty Australian speculative fiction writers, editors and publishers as part of the The 2005 Snapshot: Australian Speculative Fiction.

Peek's writing is best described as speculative fiction. However, he often takes fundamental elements of the genre and combines them into other styles. Recurring themes in Peek's work include the representation of race and multiculturalism. Peek has also written a number of works that play with story form, including Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth and Johnny Cash.

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[edit] Published Fiction

[edit] Novels and Longer Works

[edit] Short Fiction

  • John Wayne (As Written by a Non-American) (2006), Aurealis, #37, Chimaera Press.
  • An Investigation into the Chinese Made Roman Toga (2005), Full Unit Hookup, #7.
  • The Elephant’s Glass Prison (2005). In Magistria, ed. G.W. Thomas, RageMachineBooks.
  • Johnny Cash (A Tale in Questionnaire Results) (2005), Shadowed Realms #4.

Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2006, eds. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt, MirrorDanse Books.

  • The Dream of a Russian Princess (2005), TiconderogaOnline #3.
  • The Dreaming City (2004). In Leviathan Four: Cities, ed. Forrest Aguirre, The Ministry of Whimsy Press.

Reprinted in The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2005, eds. Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt, MirrorDanse Books.
Reprinted in The Best of Leviathan, eds. Jeff VanderMeer and Ann Kennedy. Forthcoming, 2007.

  • R (2004). In Agog! Smashing Stories, ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press.
  • The Lost World of the Stranger (2004). In Amazing Heroes II, ed. G.W. Thomas, RageMachineBooks.
  • Black Sunday Month (2004), Antipodean Sci-Fi #81.
  • Adala’s Memory: A March Collection (2004). In The Spiny Babbler, ed. Brian Thompson.
  • Dr Who? (Or the Day I Learnt to Love Tom Baker) (2003). In Forever Shores, eds. Peter McNamara and Margaret Winch, Wakefield Press.
  • The Recipe (2003). In Elsewhere (Anthology), Michael Barry, Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild.
  • Cigarettes and Roses (2002). In Passing Strange, ed. Bill Congreve, MirrorDanse Books.
  • Scratches in the Sky (2002). In Agog! Fantastic Fiction, ed. Cat Sparks, Agog! Press.
  • Camel (2002), AurealisXpress, December Issue, p 3.
  • Antique Spaceman (2002), Antipodean Sci-Fi, #68.
  • Killing the French Fry Girl (2001), Voiceworks, #45.
  • With the Lights On (1998), Under Magellanic Clouds, #5.
  • The Edge of the Universe (1998), Under Magellanic Clouds, #5.
  • The Owner of Ankou’s Sword (1996), Dragon Soup, #11.
  • Seeing Black and White (1996), The Mentor, #92.
  • The One Race, One World Conspiracy (1995), The Mentor, #89.

[edit] Poetry

  • Changeling (1997). In The Goblin Market, ed. Raechel Henderson, Eggplant Productions.

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