Career
He is predominantly recognised as a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Two collections of Petrie"s short stories have been published: Rare Unsigned Copy: tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables (2010) and Difficult Second Album: more stories of Xenobiology, Space Elevators, and Bats Out Of Hell (2014). In 2012 his back-to-back novella double, Flight 404 and The Hunt Foreign Red Leicester, was released.
All three books were edited by Edwina Harvey and published by Peggy Bright Books.
Petrie"s stories have appeared in a number of Australian publications including Borderlands, Aurealis and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, in New Zealand publications such as Semaphore Magazine and several Random Static anthologies, and in magazines elsewhere in the English-speaking world such as Redstone Science Fiction, Murky Depths and Sybil"s Garage. He has co-edited three speculative fiction anthologies, Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear (Peggy Bright Books, 2012) (shortlisted for the Ditmar awards in March 2013) and Use Only As Directed (Peggy Bright Books, 2014) with Edwina Harvey, and Next (Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild, 2013), with Robert Porteous.
