The Ivory Trail ( 1999) is a Timeslip fantasy. The period and the venue are reiterated in Kelleher's only series – the Parkland sequence comprising Parkland ( 1994), Earthsong ( 1995) and Fire Dancer ( 1996) – in which humans, caged as apes (see Apes as Human) in the eponymous zoo, must explore their own human nature – and are sent to the time of the Neanderthals (see Time Travel) as part of their quest – in order to find something like freedom. The Green Piper ( 1984) hovers Equipoisally between sf and fantasy as a light in the sky may (or may not) literally announce the return of the Pied Piper to a world beginning to suffer Climate Change Taronga ( 1986) is a Post-Holocaust tale whose protagonist's Telepathy gives him a commanding rapport with animals he finds an apparent enclave of safety – an untouched Zoo in the heart of Sydney – but this sanctum proves unsafe, and he must lead his tribe out of the ruined City. His sf includes at least one sf novel addressed primarily to an adult audience, The Beast of Heaven ( 1985), set in a Ruined Earth where a hunter-gatherer culture roams, encountering the eponymous Monster and a Computer programme that may be running amok Underground the book won a Ditmar Award for best Australian sf. His first novels – Voices from the River ( 1979), Forbidden Paths of Thual ( 1979) and The Hunting of Shadroth ( 1981) – are fantasy. Kelleher's major narrative concerns, in his sf and Fantasy (he makes no sharp distinction between the two genres) for Young Adult readers, seem to be the resolving of conflicts between cyclic/seasonal time and linear time. (1939- ) UK-born Australian teacher and author, in Africa for about twenty years before emigrating to New Zealand in 1973 and then Australia in 1976 he has written some horror as by Veronica Hart.
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