Adam Browne
A vivid cosmic illustration of planets, tentacles, smoke, and bright red forms.

Australian science fiction

Adam Browne

Writing Illustration Theatre Films

Books

Baroque voyages, impossible animals, and stories inside stories.

Adam Browne is an Australian speculative fiction writer whose work moves between wit, invention, astronomy, history, and whimsy. It has been called gnarly by Rudy Rucker.

Cover of Pyrotechnicon by Adam Browne.

Pyrotechnicon

Being a True Account of Cyrano de Bergerac's Further Adventures Among the States and Empires of the Stars.

Coeur de Lion Publishing

Amazon WorldCat

About

Writer, illustrator.

Adam Browne is a Melbourne Australian science fiction writer. His bibliography spans novels, collections, and short fiction published in Australian and international speculative fiction venues.

Browne often illustrates his own work.

Album art for Selected Short Stories by Adam Browne, read by Francis Greenslade.

Audio

Selected Short Stories

Adam Browne stories read by Francis Greenslade, available through Bandcamp.

Listen on Bandcamp

Illustrations

Speculative anatomy, mythic beings, and Oxford commas.

Selected illustrations supplied from Adam Browne's archive, presented as part of the same invented world as the fiction.

A pencil illustration of a fantastical elephant with ornamental architecture and strange organic forms.
The Saturnian elephant, Sisterkihi, described by Jakob Lorber
A watercolor drawing of an orange hand branching into blue finger-like limbs.
Fingers Bookplate Watercolor study
A black and white sketch of a curled platonic animal form with many limbs and hands.
Platonic Animal How the Ship Got Its Womb
A colored pencil drawing of a flower-like anatomical bloom with blue green leaves and a red central cluster.
Hellatharinaga, the “thousand-leaf gold shrub” in Lorber’s Saturn.

Theatre

Bladderwrack

A play about two seafarers trapped for decades in the hold of a sunken ship, where a miniature ecosystem has evolved around them.

Performed at Theatre Works, Melbourne, in November 2025. Starring David Tredinnick and Oscar Munro.

Visit Bladderwrack site

Films

Screen Pieces.

Film projects connected to Adam Browne's speculative worlds.

Squarei

The Adjustable Cosmos

Based on one of my stories, directed by the lamented Adam Duncan, who was really a lovely guy.

Watch on YouTube

Promo

Pyrotechnicon

A promotional film for Pyrotechnicon, Adam Browne's account of Cyrano de Bergerac's further adventures among the states and empires of the stars.

Watch on Vimeo

Selected short fiction

A field guide to the improbable.

Contact and links

For readers, bibliography, and related work.

Email adambrowne63@gmail.com Blog adambrowne.blogspot.com Bibliography ISFDB author page Audio Bandcamp stories