16 short stories. 16 authors. One anthology.
A sweeping collection of short stories by sixteen award-winning and dedicated emerging Australian authors. Immerse yourself in a dark yet hopeful read for fans of Australian fiction in the vein of the Never Whistle at Night anthology, Austral Anthology 2025 and Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Holometabola is a collection of fantasy and science-fiction stories exploring change, becoming and transformation.
From strange new worlds and body modification to AI, immortality and the unknown, the collection moves through four phases.
Inside Holometabola, you’ll find short stories filled with memorable characters, strange worlds and unexpected twists:
- A home robot that will do anything to help its owner.
- Teenagers with body modifications fighting to escape the circus that owns them.
- An energy anomaly threatening a space port.
- An immortal tired of life searching for a new reason to keep going.
- And plenty more.
Hatch. Pupate. Eclosion. Death.
Gabrielle Davis joins the contributing authors with her short story Confluence This, featured in the Eclosion collection.
Enter the world of Holometabola
