Rynosseros

Dowling, Terry. Rynosseros. N.p.: Guild America, n.d. "Only North American Edition." 1990. Available through the S. F. Book Club. "Ditmar Winner / 1991 Australian SF Achievement Award."

Linked coll. of SF stories about Tom Tyson, captain of the sand- and road-sailing ship Rynosseros, in a future Australia around the time of the (next?) return of Halley's Comet ([155])—an Australia in which true AI has been developed, and in which the Dreamtime exists and is effective (cf. Egyptian myth in Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings [1983]). Relevant stories: "Colouring the Captains," "The Robot Is Running Away from the Trees," and "Spinners"—all unacknowledged, so may be printed here for the first time. (RDE, 27/06/94)