Fiction by Dennis List
This page is just a set of links to my novels - at least, those with some chapters online. Some day I'll get around to scanning and uploading some short stories from years ago. The novels are...
Return of the Triboldies. Several chapters of this bizarre, speculative novel, written after I'd been reading a lot of Icelandic sagas.
Dromeworld. Set on this planet in the year 3663, long after human civilization destroyed itself and the dromes - huge, ugly, but scarily efficient - took over.
It began one night early in 1997 I dreamed of a world where aliens had taken over, but there were beneficent aliens, and kept humans as pets. I suspected that somebody would have written about this, but year later have still found nothing directly relevant. Planet of the Apes came close, and War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells has this sentence in Book II, chapter 7, in which the artilleryman is speaking to the narrator:
"Very likely those Martians will make pets of some of them, train them to do tricks - who knows? - get sentimental over the pet boy who grew up and had to be killed..."Dromeworld is my version of this concept. The sequel, for now called Dromeworld II (the obvous title in science fiction) is taking shape in my head, and is waiting for me to start writing - but first I have a few Floaters to finish...Floaters: my unfinished octalogy of Australasian novels: one set in New Zealand, and one in each state of Australia. So far, two are finished: Midnight Deli (Victoria), and Gone: No Address (New South Wales). The Queensland one, Cloud of Universal Light is finally finished (September 2006), though not yet published. The next one I'll work on is the New Zealand one (an end-of-the-world novel), followed by the Tasmanian one (gothic horror), then the South Australian one (a disastrous comedy).
The Underground Journey of Nicolas Klim - my translation of Ludvig Holberg's 1745 classic of speculative fiction, originally written in Latin.
Lear on Limbo. The journal of Edward Lear (who in his time was well known as a travel writer; limericks were secondary) on his fictional journey to the isle of Limbo. August 2006: I finally finished it, and you can read it on this site - for now.
