Adam lives in the Blue Mountains with his girlfriend and commutes to Sydney for work and university. He uses the train to catch up on some reading and reviewing.

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Never one to do things by halves, Zara Baxter supplements her day job in magazine publishing with evenings spent on her magazine publishing hobby – as a member of the Andromeda Spaceways collective. Her family still think she's a good, quiet girl. Everyone else describes her as “weird, but in a nice way”. Zara reads science fiction, fantasy and horror in approximately equal doses, because she believes in the importance of a balanced diet.

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David Buchbinder has an abiding interest in fantasy fiction and is a quondam reader of science fiction. If his reviews are strongly redolent of the academic’s study and the inkhorn, it is because he lectures in literary studies and cultural studies.

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David has written short stories, non-fiction and gaming material. Most recently he has been published in the anthologies Daikaiju!, Southern Blood and Agog!, and in the World of Darkness books by White Wolf publishers. He collects Australian comics, and provides a gallery of covers on his website. For the gallery, plus reviews, interviews, articles and lots more, check out http://www.tabula-rasa.info.

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Lorraine learnt to read before she started school and has been reading voraciously ever since. She has been reviewing books since editing a university newspaper. She is currently an active member of the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild (CSFG).

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A fan of speculative fiction and longtime gamer and dark age re-enactor, he works in the National Library. He is often thought of as the “go-to guy” for computer application problems or queries in his area - that area being the best library webservice in the world.

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Mark Deniz lives in Norrköping, on the south east coast of Sweden, with his wife Etina, and their son Maddoc. A novelist and short fiction writer, Mark recently turned his hand to screenwriting for a short film screened at festivals worldwide in 2007. After a successful year at Eneit Press, Mark has started a new company, Gilgamesh Press, focusing on Assyrian topics, closely followed by Morrígan Books, a dark speculative fiction imprint. More can be found regarding Mark on his Live Journal account.

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Kaitlyn Fall didn't think anything could be better than reading until she discovered writing. She keeps a blog at
http://kaitlynfall.livejournal.com/

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Liz Grzyb was born in Perth, Australia, in the middle of a thunderstorm in 1978. She is the Reviews Editor for the science fiction webzine TiconderogaOnline. She was also editor of the tongue-in-cheek gothic fanzine Virtual Dark from 1994–1997. She voraciously reads and views a wide range of genres, and has reviewed for a variety of publications such as Bubblehead Webzine and ETANotes. Liz also writes articles and short fiction, of which some have been published in Narrogin's premier fanzine, No Award. Liz has recently returned to the Big Smoke of her hometown, and is embracing the trials and tribulations of mortgage ownership.

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Anna's first loves were books and science. These days, she spends an inordinate amount of time reading (not enough of it fiction), and works as a statistician for a biomedical research group. Her current interests in the SF&F field are short stories in general, stories with a believable science basis, and books written for children and adolescents. She was a founding editor of the now defunct Borderlands magazine and has been a judge for the Aurealis awards in the children's, young adult and horror sections.

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In her eternal quest to learn a little bit about everything, Rachel has acquired two fifths of a B. Arch (abandoned), a B.A. (Media Arts), a Grad. Dip. Prof. Writ. and an addiction to libraries. Her favourite thing to do is start new projects, and her favourite thing to daydream about is finishing them. She spends her days writing, reading and getting the house messy with textile projects. Her favourite words are abecedary, euphony and pancake. She lives in Melbourne with husband, Richard, daughter, Abbey and a large furry cat called Billy. She keeps her website at http://www.mechanicalcat.net/rachel

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Sue lives in Perth, Western Australia and has been writing as long as she knew that real people wrote books. Her lit credit so far includes the YA book Scale of Dragon, Tooth of Wolf and kids book Wolf Children. She's also sold quite a few stories around the place to markets such as Aurealis, Orb, ASIM, Agog, Sword and Sorceress and Tales of the Unanticipated and recently moved online with Shiny, a YA fiction magazine! Her other interests include history, sf conventions, roleplay gaming, gardening and working out how best to turn her hometown into an Aftermath scenario.

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George Ivanoff is a Melbourne based author who has written over 20 books for children and teenagers. Two of his books (Life, Death and Detention and Real Sci-Fi) are on the booklist for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge – this is their fourth year on the list. George used to regularly review books, CDs and DVDs for the now defunct Frontier Magazine. Check out George’s website at: www.georgeivanoff.com.au.

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Devin Jeyathurai lives in Singapore although it has often been said that his mind lives elsewhere. He is a fervent advocate of the written word as entertainment and can often be found sitting on public transport, reading. He also likes libraries, superheroes, comic books, magic, angels, tarot cards and country-western line-dancing.

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Alisa is ASif!'s Executive Editor. In 2006 she launched the online webzine New Ceres and was Convenor of the Science Fiction panel for the Aurealis Awards. In 2007 she founded Twelfth Planet Press whose projects include the new YA speculative fiction ezine Shiny, the anthologies 2012, and New Ceres Nights, the short story collection A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti and the novella series - Angel Rising and Horn. Alisa is a member of the award winning The Last Short Story Project. She has won several Tin Duck and Ditmar awards, including a Tin Duck for Best Fan Writer in 2008 and the Ditmar for Best New Talent in 2007.

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Kathryn Linge has never had any ambition to become a writer and feels somewhat surprised to now be reviewing for ASif! An avid reader from an early age, her first remembered brush with science fiction is Robert Heinlein's The Puppet Masters when she was eight or nine. Her forays into Australian speculative fiction are rather more recent than that, but she's finding the opportunity to become more familiar with the scene quite rewarding. Kathryn is the creater of the DAMN Index, a revolutionary method for evaluating the relative worth of one issue of any given publication over another. In 2007 her review of Through Soft Air was nominated for the William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review. Kathryn can be reached at kathrynlinge@gmail.com. Odds on she's checking her email right now!

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Paul Mannering is a New Zealander who spends a lot of time working in the writing, direction and production of internet-based audio drama. Horror stories have been written and brought to life for Darker Projects Audio and BrokenSea Audio Productions.

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Gene is ASif!'s reviews editor. He has also reviewed for various other venues, including Strange Horizons, Vector, and Foundation. He is a recent British import to Australia.

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Mitenae has a Diploma in Performing Arts, a Bachelor of Arts in Writing and a Bachelor of Communications honours. When not reading or drawing she is writing a fantasy quartet.

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Sally was 9 years old when she read her first entire book before school and has barely had a book out of her hands since.

With her library shelves groaning, some time on her hands, no talent for writing but a huge appetite for enjoying, offering an opinion beckoned. I came, I read, I opined.

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Ross Murray lives in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia and has recently submitted his PhD in Creative Writing. He is very glad of that. His favourite authors and artists, a number of whom who seem to be dead or dying and which is a real bummer to him, include: J.G Ballard, David Foster Wallace, Kathy Acker, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Frank Quitely, and James Gleeson.

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MacLaren North started his life American, something which has recently become acceptable in polite company again. Living in Sydney for nearly two decades, he pays the mortgage as a heritage consultant and archaeologist and aspires to write science fiction someone would actually want to read. He is a graduate of Clarion South 2009, has too many books and needs more.

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Ben Payne is co-editor of Aurealis magazine. He was a founding member of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and edited issues #1 and #18. He is also the editor of the garden-press scifi magazine Potato Monkey. He has reviewed for Tangent, Orb, ASIM and Australasian Drama Studies, and served for the last five years as an Aurealis Awards judge. He watches a lot of crap TV. Le Blog can be found at http://www.livejournal.com/users/benpayne.

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Simon is a computational chemist at an Australian university. Sometimes this is more interesting than it sounds, sometimes less. Towards the end of 2006 he was reinfected with the delusion that he could produce readable fiction. He has since conscripted several unwitting spec-fic zines, notably Andromeda Spaceways and AntipodeanSF, to conspire on this delusion. (ASIM, for its part, has retaliated by absorbing him, Borg-like, into the hive-mind of its publishing collective.) His tastes as a reader lie towards the 'hard SF' section of the spectrum: if forced to name favourite genre books, he'd nominate Larry Niven's The Integral Trees, John Barnes' A Million Open Doors, and just about any of Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan books. [That shouldn't be taken to imply that he thinks any of these are quintessentially hard-SF; rather, whatever sub-genre you consider them to occupy, he particularly liked them] Off-genre, he's a devotee of Tove Jansson's writing, and is waiting with mildly restrained impatience for the promised posthumous translations of her post-Moomin fiction.

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Alexandra Pierce is a teacher of history and English at a government high school in Melbourne, Australia. She is a manic reader, dividing her time between science fiction and fantasy on the one hand, and history stuff on the other. In the rest of her spare time, she is married to James, a photographer and IT-type; edits a Christian women's magazine called ishah; and watches her fish do fishy things.

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Gillian Polack's first book, Illuminations, was published in the US in 2002. Her second book, The Art of Effective Dreaming, will be out soon. One of her short stories was listed as “Highly recommended” in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best 2004. Gillian was recently awarded a Varuna Longlines Fellowship.

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Tansy Rayner Roberts is a Tasmanian fantasy writer (http://tansyrr.com). She can be found on Twitter and Facebook as tansyrr. She is the author of the Siren Beat half of Siren Beat/Roadkill, a pair of urban fantasy novelettes published as a Double (two covers, back to back!) by Twelfth Planet Press. Power and Majesty, the first book of Tansy's Creature Court fantasy trilogy featuring flappers, shapechangers and bloodthirsty court politics, will be released from HarperCollins Voyager in June 2010.

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Angela Slatter is a Brisbane writer. Her short fiction has appeared in Australia and the US, in publications such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Shimmer. She has a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing, a Masters (Research) in Creative Writing and – apparently having learned nothing – is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing. She is working on a novel, Narrow Daylight, which explores the repercussions of suicide in families, and writing short speculative stories for procrastination purposes.

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Kyla Ward is a Sydney-based writer whose work can be in such publications as Passing Strange, Agog!I & II, Aurealis, Gothic.net, Borderlands and Shadowed Realms. She has also written for Dragon magazine, Eden Studios and White Wolf. Her first novel is Prismatic, co-authored under the name Edwina Grey. For more, see http://www.tabula-rasa.info

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Tehani Wessely was a founding member of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in 2001. Now firmly entrenched in Australian speculative fiction and small press, she edits for Twelfth Planet Press (among other duties), judges for the Aurealis Awards, reads far more in one genre than is healthy, and writes reviews, non-fiction and interviews for AS if! and Fiction Focus. In her spare moments, she works full time as a Teacher Librarian and enjoys her husband and two point five children. Tehani is the editor of ASIM #4, #16, #27, #31 and #37, three Best Of ASIM e-anthologies, co-editor of ASIM #36, the Twelfth Planet Press anthology New Ceres Nights and other projects, and is currently working on an anthology of children's stories tentatively titled Spec Fic for Kids. Tehani is part of the committee organising the 2011 event Swancon36/Natcon50 in Perth.

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The list of Past and Guest Reviewers at ASif! can be found here