Sallyo's Worlds
Many of my books concern worlds that are not, or not quite, our own. Some are simply fictitious towns placed in real countries, others are countries themselves - or full-blown worlds.
Below is a selection of these worlds. For a more detailed visit,
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Springford,
the first town I invented, is an unremarkable town in my home state of Tasmania. It features in two early titles, "Her Kingdom for a Pony" (1977) and "The Day the Cows Slept in" (1979).Shortly after this, I invented the
Palm River, and two towns named Greer and Gilmour, which I also placed in Tasmania and which eventually featured in six books; the trio of; "Down River" (1980), "Time Off" (1982) and "Winterspring Garden" (1984), the duo of "Another Good Friend" and "All the Sea Between" (both 1991) and the single title "The Suitcase" (1987).Next, in 1986, came
Copper Creek, another small town in Tasmania. This one featured in the story "The Powerful Pickle Problem", and was the first to have related street names such as Miners' Parade and Gold Street.A few years later,
Bandinangi and Kissinhurst popped into my mind. These featured in the Bandinangi Books sequence of "Three Missing Days" (aka "Ex-spelled"), "Five Easy Lessons", "Three Loony Months", "One Weird Week" and "Kayak", and also, in "The Magician's Box" and "Maya the Adventureless".Bandinangi was a fully realised town with street names such as Moon Street, Sol Street, Southern Cross Gardens, Milky Way Street, Andromeda Avenue etc. It wasn't what you might call an ordinary town, having more than its share of eccentrics and weird happenings. Kissinhurst was its nearest neighbour, sometimes caught up on the edge of the weirdness.
After this, I got ambitious, and now I reckon I "own" huge chunks of the Australian mainland as well as the occasional off-shore island. Favourite creations include -
towns -
Rosella, Cockatoo, Boronia, Nugget Creek (setting of Fools' Gold,) Desolé, Dimanche.cattle or sheep properties -
Ballahoo, Gold's Kingdom, Gang Gang, Emmadale, Dreaming Plains, Glen Heather, Kelly's Kingdom, Lassiter Springs and Golden Lode.islands -
Atonement, Allirra.Houses, schools or other instalations-
Avalon, St Saviours, St Bonifaces, Swan House, Hub HI-Q.boats
- Aphrodite, Jemima, Website, Jenny Penmarrick
Finally, we come to the real other worlds, and the countries therein. These include -
The Unicorn Worlds -
Nrocinu, Nrocirt and Nroclin, which created in the early 1970s for two unpublished fantasies called "The Kamarand" and "The Kamarand 2".Spacestation X
. which I created in the late 1980s for an unpublished sf called "Out of Time".Ankoor, Rargon and McAnerin
, three countries in the one (unnamed) world, which I created in 1988,1994 and 2000 for novels called "Amy Amaryllis" (1993), "Shadowdancers" (1994) and "Candle Iron", (2001). Places within these countries include The Fifth Castle, Western Port, Loakencamp, Cragcircle, Midpoint, Shuencamp, Clair, McDaniel Waters, Crystalium Caverns, Fielding, Conners' Hall.
Celadon
is a double creation in that I created the book, "Translations in Celadon" in which Rosanna, one of the characters, creates Celadon itself. Places in Celadon include Cerulean, The Catkin Clearing, The Scree.
Otherworld
was created in 1998 for the short book "In the Blink of an Eye".The Slavers' World
was created in 1998 for the short book "A Boy's Best Friend".
Elydia and the Spiral Worlds
- were created in 1998 and 1999 for an ambitious, and still unfinished, quartet of books to be called "The Millichancer, "Piper's Dream", "Dryads' Well", and "Gift of Elydia".
My latest created worlds, as of January 2002, are
Sisterin, the setting for a w.i.p. called "Waterfall" and Braveria, the setting for Knightfall. Places within Sisterin include Eberclere, Guysh, and Sharm, while Braveria offers plains, castles, jousting grounds and dragons.
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