- Author: Gillian Polack Author Record # 86205
- Legal Name: Polack, Gillian S.
- Birthplace: Kew, Melbourne, Australia
- Birthdate: 25 April 1961
- Language: English
- Webpages: Fancyclopedia 3, gillianpolack.com, LiveJournal, trivium.net, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Philologa Majora, Dr. Gillian Polack
- Author Tags: time travel (1), urban fantasy (1), ghosts (1), contemporary fantasy (1), road trip (1), friendship (1)
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Novels
- Illuminations (2002)
-
Life Through Cellophane (2009)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Ms Cellophane (2012)
-
Langue [dot] doc 1305 (2014)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Langue[dot]doc 1305 (2018)
- The Art of Effective Dreaming (2015)
- The Time of the Ghosts (2015)
- The Wizardry of Jewish Women (2016)
- The Year of the Fruit Cake (2019)
- Poison & Light (2020)
- Mountains of the Mind (2018)
- A Rift in Time (2023) [O] with Christopher Coates and Michael R. Stern
- Masques (2009) with Scott Hopkins
- Baggage (2010)
- Story Matrices (2022)
- Happy Faces for Happy Families (2004)
- Stu's Stew (2005)
- Impractical Magic (2005)
-
Horrible Historians (2006)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Les horreurs de l'Histoire [French] (2018)
- Passports (2009)
- Someone's Daughter (2013)
- After Eden (2017)
- A Plague of Dancers (2018)
- Allons (2019)
- Karen's Secret Story (2021) [only as by Dr. Gillian Polack]
- Why the Bridgemasters of York Don't Pay Taxes (2022)
- Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (2004)
- On Elven Grammar (2004) [only as by Philologa Majora]
- Ten Things That Only Belong in a Speculative Fiction Novel When Placed There Carefully with Intent to Murder Medieval History (2004)
- Stu's Stew (2005)
- On Elven Grammar II (2005) [only as by Philologa Majora]
- Elven Grammar III (2005) [only as by Philologa Majora]
- Introduction and Acknowledgements (Masques) (2009) with Scott Hopkins
- Introduction (Baggage) (2010)
- Dialogue and Doomsday: Comedy and Conviction in Connie Willis and Oscar Wilde (2013)
- Australian Speculative Fiction and the Land: Culture and Ownership (2015)
- Why This Novel Is Considered Cursed (2015)
- Big Fat Fantasies and Us: A Look at Chris Wooding's 'Braided Path' (2015)
- Lavinia Disempowered (2015)
- Old North Australia and New South Australia: The Work of Paul Linebarger (2015)
- Life and Death in Small Things (2015)
- Sky Politics: Nevil Shute's In the Wet (2016)
- Another Letter to Tiptree (2016)
- Early Australian Fantasy: Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding (2016)
- Brumby Adventures in Space: The Science Fiction of Mary Elwyn Patchett (2016)
- Cherry Wilder and the Story of Australian Speculative Fiction (2017)
- Creating Our Own Stories: Cusack, Kiddle and Chauncey (2017)
- Setting up Westeros: The Medievalesque World of Game of Thrones (2017)
- The Case of the Trashy, Tripey Novel with a Marxist Slant: M. Barnard Eldershaw and Science Fiction (2017)
- Fan Funds (2017)
-
GUFF (2017)
with
Mihaela Marija Perković?Mihaela Marija Perkovic
- Visiting Australia and Creating Borderlands: James Hume Nisbet and His Distant Shores (2017)
- One Name, Two Writers: John Lang, John Lang and Speculative Fiction (2017)
- The Development of a Ghost: John Fisher and Australia's Ghost Stories (2018)
- As Good as Poe. No, Better: Colonial Gothic in the Hands of Marcus Clarke (2018)
- The Guardian: A Tale by an Australian (2018)
- The Gothic Trail: The Guardian's Place in Australian Gothic Tradition (2018)
- What We Take for Granted: The Australian Fantastical Imagination and Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (2018)
- John Lang and the Hidden (2019)
- Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas From?—Mr Cole and His Funny Picture Books (2019)
- An Introduction to Australian Timeslip Novels (2020)
- Barbara Baynton and the Horror of Women's Lives (2020)
- An Introduction to World-Building in Early Australian Speculative Fiction (2021)
- The World of The Last Lemurian: A Westralian Romance, by G Firth Scott (2022)
- Thinking About the Void (2022)
- Ernest Favenc's White World in The Secret of the Australian Desert (2022)
- Urban Fantasy (2019)
- The Magic Pudding (2016) by Norman Lindsay
- Science Fiction in the Antipodes: An Australian Speculative Fiction Roundtable (2017) by Joyce Chng (co-interviewed with Tehani Wessely and Ambelin Kwaymullina and Matthew Farrer)