Justine Larbalestier Books in Order

This short critical study examines the werewolf fiction of Tanith Lee. Published as a Babel Handbook, it focuses on a particular strand of Lee's work, providing literary commentary rather than presenting a new werewolf story.

Beginning with the early science fiction magazines, Larbalestier investigates arguments about sex and gender in stories and fandom. She traces competing ideas about women's roles through fiction, letters, criticism, and debates among science fiction readers.

Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino has grown up believing her grandmother's magic is dangerous superstition. When her mother's illness sends her to Sydney, a doorway into New York forces Reason to reconsider everything she has been taught.

Eleven feminist science fiction stories are paired with critical essays examining their literary and historical contexts. Spanning the twentieth century, the collection brings together fiction and scholarship to explore how writers have imagined gender and social change.

Reason Cansino must choose between using magic that shortens her life and rejecting it at the risk of madness. In New York, her grandfather's pursuit of magical power brings fresh danger to Reason and her friends.

Reason Cansino's extraordinary new power offers possibilities beyond the usual bargain between magic and madness. But its promise of a longer life threatens her humanity, leaving Reason and her friends facing increasingly difficult choices about their futures.

Fourteen-year-old Charlie wants better luck with clothes and boys, but her personal fairy only finds parking spaces. Determined to replace it, she tries to change her magical advantage while negotiating school, friendships, and an inconvenient crush.

Micah has spent years inventing stories about herself. When her boyfriend Zach is found dead, the seventeen-year-old promises to tell the truth, but her account of his murder becomes entangled with family secrets and contradictory explanations.

In vampire-friendly New Whitby, Mel Duan is horrified when her best friend falls for a vampire student. While trying to prevent an irreversible romantic mistake, Mel investigates another mystery that complicates her assumptions about humans and vampires.

In Sydney's violent criminal underworld in 1932, homeless Kelpie and gangster's companion Dymphna find themselves threatened by rival gangs. Both can see ghosts, whose warnings offer uncertain guidance as an uneasy peace collapses around them.

Seventeen-year-old Che Taylor suspects his ten-year-old sister Rosa has no conscience. After their Australian family moves to New York, Che struggles to contain her manipulations while his parents dismiss the danger he believes she presents.

Jessica Morton belongs to a wealthy dynasty that trains its children to manipulate and kill. After committing her first murder, the brilliant Helshire College student uncovers revelations that threaten her family's power and her place within it.