Ian E. Hart

Ian E. Hart

Dr Ian Hart has worked with words, ideas, images and stories all his life: as an academic in Australia, Europe and China, and as writer-director of over 30 broadcast documentary and fiction films. He has published three novels—one YA and 2 historical fiction— and is currently working on a fourth, a murder mystery. Ian lives in Canberra, Australia and occasionally Hong Kong.

Forgetting Business

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Part 1 of "The Kerosene Creek Mysteries." 1890, NSW Australia, “Hey Jindy, I hear you got that forgetting business,” said Jimmy Sugarbag. The entire population of Kerosene Creek village disappeared overnight and Jindy Kelly can’t remember a thing about it.  Sister Thomas calls it “hysterical amnesia”. They take her back to the ghost town where she confronts the traumas that wiped her memory: the insanity of the Irish commune leader, the betrayal by her oldest friend, the disappearance of the Chinese boy she loved, and her Ngunnawal mother, condemned to hang for witchcraft and murder.In Part 2, "China Business," Jindy follows Johnny Fong to 1895 Hong Kong—ravaged by plag...
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The 3-Dimensional Boy

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What if there was a 3D printer that could copy a living human being? Tom Chan’s father is building one in his laboratory at Coolabah University. 14 year old Tom and his neighbour Bethany ‘Biff’ Piechorowski take shelter in the lab from a thunderstorm and accidentally print a copy of Tom: a dopplegänger with no personality and no memory. They try to pass him off as ‘Baker,’ Tom’s long-lost twin from China. But there are dark forces at work who want human clones for sinister reasons and they kidnap Baker in order to perfect their Human Replicator. Rescuing Baker leads Biff, Tom and their friends on a wild pursuit through the labyrinth of WW2 tunnels beneath Coolabah City, unearthi...
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