Background
The daughter of a WW2 Australian Army commando and salesman, Janeen Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at schools locally.
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Cynthia Lee Mariner is an ace windsurfer, who meets the geni, who appears out of a strange bottle. Her first wish is to sail the seven seas; in her subsequent travels with the geni, she meets a grumpy magic carpet, and is invited to visit Atlantis. This book is intended for ages 10 and over.
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The daughter of a WW2 Australian Army commando and salesman, Janeen Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at schools locally.
She then studied at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she ultimately gained a Doctor of Philosophy (1983) in literature.
Foreign many years she taught at the Institute of Catholic Education (later part of the Australian Catholic University) in Melbourne, Victoria where she was Associate Professor and Reader in literature. Her other publications include Aliens & Savages: Fiction, Politics and Prejudice in Australia (1998), The Fantastic Self (an edited collection of critical essays on fantasy and science fiction) (1999) and a scholarly edition of The Yellow Wave, Kenneth Mackay"s important 1895 scientific romance (2003). Webb is currently working on a series of novels for Young Adults.
The first two books are and
(Cynthia Lee Mariner is an ace windsurfer, who meets the g...)
From 1987-1991, Webb was a member of the editorial collective of Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series, and is currently on the advisory board of Science Fiction Studies.