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13_-_a_collection_of_ghost_stories

2006-05-16T17:43:32+11:00

by Rick Kennett Jacobyte Books, Australia (2001) ISBN: 1-74053-064-0 Out of Print Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Marty Young, May 2006 13 - A Collection of Ghost Stories by Rick Kennett, was published in 2001 by the POD (Print On Demand) publisher Jacobyte Books, an Australia-based independent publishing house that unfortunately is no longer in business. The collection came about after Bryce Stevens, author of The Fear Codex (Jacobyte Books, 2000), gave Kennett a flyer that sa…

13_bullets

2008-12-03T13:52:15+11:00

Book 1: 13 Bullets Book 2: 99 Coffins Book 3: Vampire Zero by David Wellington Allen & Unwin (2008) ISBN: 9781741755923 $14.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Nov 2008 13 Bullets is the sort of novel that will be enjoyed very much by some people, while most other people simply shrug, rather than either liking or disliking it. It's not so much that it's mediocre; it's more that what it does well will really appeal to a certain target group, and it's just not distincti…

13_unlucky_for_some

2006-10-06T14:17:47+11:00

by T J Arryn Sid Harta (2006) ISBN: 1-877059-61-7 $ Buy this book Go back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, October 2006 This novel is often incoherent and confused, and lacked any hook to interest the reader and draw them into the story. There was, I think, considerable potential here, but Arryn lost control of her characters, her plot, and her sentences within only a few pages.

1994_novels

2006-03-07T14:21:13+11:00

Board, RichardNetherworld SeasonMammothBrosnan, JohnThe Opopanox InvasionGollanczCarey, PeterThe Unusual Life of Tristan SmithUQPCaswell, BrianDreamslipUQPDoran, NiallChronological Adventures of Detrius ThesperDesdichado PublishingEgan, GregPermutation CityMillennium SFEsrac, WilliamDance to the SunTomorrow #7-10Hague, G.M.A Place to FearPan MacmillanHamilton, MaggieThe Lost Kingdom of LantiaMoondrake BooksHart, VeronicaDouble GodMandarinHoward, VickieVenera's BrandImpaled ProductionsHulley, Cha…

1994_short_stories

2006-03-09T17:18:15+11:00

Arnold, MarilynThe Quality of MercyDeeds of DoomBaume, MarjaSweet JakeDeeds of DoomBlackshaw, G. S.The Orchard Groves of SpringDaarke Worlde #5FebruaryBock, AndrewThe Birth of HorrorDaarke Worlde #5FebruaryBoyd, DonAm-Mit: Eater of the DeadDeeds of DoomBoyd, DonDesert StormDeeds of DoomBoyd, DonLeng: City of HateDeeds of DoomBoyd, DonThe Scarab BeetleDarke Worlde #5FebruaryBrook, T. J.Lore of Darkness- Lore Six: Ille Diaboli SaxulumEOD #9Brown, SimonWhy My Wife Left Me and Other Stories by Diome…

1995_novels

2006-03-07T14:32:53+11:00

Armanno, VeneroMy Beautiful FriendRandom HouseBaillie, AllanDream CatcherOmnibusBaillie, AllanMagicianPenguinBarron, AntoniaJeremy JeremiaLittle ArkBlacklock, DyanComet Vomit and other Surprising StoriesLittle ArkBrooks, DavidThe House of BalthusAllen & UnwinCarey, PeterThe Unusual Life of Tristan SmithPenguinCarmody, IsobelleAshlingPenguinCaswell, BrianDeucalionUQPCollins, PaulThe Government in Exile and Other StoriesSumeriaCollins, PaulThe Wizard's TormentMoonstoneConnell, AlanLords of Serpent…

1995_short_stories

2006-03-09T17:23:59+11:00

Attard, KarenHarvest BayEidolon Issue 19Baillie, AlanBonesDream Catcher OmnibusBaillie, AlanSilent NightDream Catcher OmnibusBaillie, AlanCastle HawksmereDream Catcher OmnibusBaillie, AlanDream CatcherDream Catcher OmnibusBird, CarmelA Telephone Call for GenevieveStrange FruitBird, CarmelThe ConservatoryDark HouseBird, CarmelOne Last Picture of Ruby RoseShe's FantasticalBland, KrissyThe SilenceAurealis Issue 14Boyd, DonBloodeaters of the NileAvatar Issue 1Bridgestock, MartinWall of AnguishEidolo…

1996_short_stories

2006-03-09T17:28:28+11:00

Blackford, RussellThe Sword of GodDreamweaversBroderick, DamienSchrodinger's DogEidolon Issue 22/23Brown, SimonThe Dreaming Seas Beneath CassandraEidolon Issue 22/23Brown, SimonThe Mark of ThetisEidolon Issue 21Carmody, IsobelleThe PhoenixGreen Monkey DreamsCarmody, IsobelleThe Glory DaysGreen Monkey DreamsCarmody, IsobelleThe Red ShoesGreen Monkey DreamsCarmody, IsobelleThe BeastGreen Monkey DreamsCarmody, IsobelleThe Lemming FactorGreen Monkey DreamsCarmody, IsobelleGreen Monkey DreamsGreen Mo…

1998_antipodean_issues

2007-04-05T16:48:05+11:00

* Antipodean SF Issue 4, May 1998 * Antipodean SF Issue 3, April 1998 * Antipodean SF ISsue 2, March 1998 * Antipodean SF Issue 1, February 1998

2002

2006-02-09T18:44:49+11:00

Science Fiction Broderick, Damien Transcension TorDix, Shane Echoes of EarthHarper Collins (and Williams)Melov, PeterFeronian 5 Peter MelovMcMullen, Sean Voyage of the ShadowmoonTor (also Fantasy)Dettman, Joy Seventh DayPan MacmillanEgan, Greg Schild's LadderGollanczHarding, Traci The Cosmic Logos Harper Collins (also Fantasy)Marquardt, Michelle Blue SilenceRandom HouseMcArthur, Maxine Time PastRandom HouseWilliams, Robyn 2007: A NovelHodderWilliams, Sean Echoes of EarthHarper Collins (and Dix) …

2002_antipodean_issues

2006-06-08T16:09:14+11:00

* Antipodean SF Issue 50, May, 2002

2002_novels

2006-02-09T18:49:22+11:00

2003

2006-02-08T19:48:10+11:00

Science Fiction Bedford, AdrianOrbital Burn The Edge, SeptemberBlackford, RussellTerminator: An Evil HouriBooks, JuneBlackford, RussellTerminator: Times of TroubleiBooks, SeptemberBlum, Jonathan Fallen Gods Telos, October (and Orman)Caselberg, JayWyrmholeRoc, OctoberDix, ShaneOrphans of EarthHarper Collins, January (and Williams)Dix, ShaneRemnantArrow, February (and Williams)Dix, ShaneRefugeArrow, May (and Williams)Dix, ShaneReunionArrow, July (and Williams)Doan, John Life-OneJDX, AprilHaynes, S…

2003_novels

2006-02-09T18:56:03+11:00

2003_short_stories

2006-03-24T18:33:56+11:00

Science Fiction Andrews, ChrisMerrie DawnElsewhere, OctoberAshman, FreyaDark GardenAntipodean SF Issue 63, SeptemberBarrett, MarcPearlAntipodean SF Issue 58, FebruaryBarrett, MarcThe Wall MerchantAntipodean SF Issue 66, NovemberBarry, MichaelInvasionAntipodean SF Issue 63, SeptemberBattersby, LeeWhen I Came BackPotato Monkey Issue 3, AugustBattersby, LeeLittle SequelsAntipodean SF Issue 66, NovemberBiancotti, DeborahThe Singular Life of Eddy DovewaterAgog! Terrific Tales, AprilBlackford, R…

2004_antipodean_issues

2006-06-08T16:08:19+11:00

* Antipodean SF Issue 78, November - December 2004 * Antipodean SF Issue 77, October - November 2004 * Antipodean SF Issue 76, September - October 2004 * Antipodean SF Issue 75, August - September 2004 * Antipodean SF Issue 74, July - August 2004

2005

2006-02-08T16:47:58+11:00

Science Fiction Allen, KathrynThe SunderingEnvision, FebruaryArnold, Ashley Ascorbic TiconderogaOnline Issue 4, August Fantasy Alafaci, Marie Déjà vuAntipodean SF Issue 83, AprilAnderton, Joanne The FeastShadowed Realms Issue 6, August (also Horror)Arnold, Ashley Skin, Bone and SinewAntipodean SF Issue 80, JanuaryBanks, Thomas J A Devil of a JobThe Devil in Brisbane, SeptemberBailey, Siohban My CollectionAntipodean SF Issue 90, NovemberBall, Patrick The MachineAntipodean SF Issue 85, June (al…

2005_antipodean_issues

2007-04-05T16:28:43+11:00

* Antipodean SF Issue 90, November - December 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 89, October - November 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 87, August - September 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 86, July - August 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 85, June - July 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 84, May - June 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 83, April - May 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 82, March - April 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 81, February - March 2005 * Antipodean SF Issue 80, January - February 2005 * A…

2006_antipodean_issues

2007-03-30T12:36:25+11:00

* Antipodean SF Issue 100, September - October 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 99, August - September 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 98, July - August 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 97, June - July 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 96, May - June 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 95, April - May 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 94, March - April 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 93, February - March 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 92, January - February 2006 * Antipodean SF Issue 91, December - January, 2006

2007_antipodean_issues

2007-04-02T15:18:40+11:00

* Antipodean SF 106, Mar - Apr 2007 * Antipodean SF 105, Feb - Mar 2007 * Antipodean SF 104, Jan - Feb 2007

2012

2008-04-06T22:01:38+11:00

edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Ben Payne Twelfth Planet Press (2008) ISBN: 9780980484106 $22.00 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2008 Writing near-future science fiction, especially giving it a particular date, requires a certain amount of bravado, as well as all the necessary imagination and skill of sf writing in general. In giving their eleven authors a specific date to write to, Krasnostein and Payne have been - to my mind - exceptionally daring, and demanding. I…

26_lies_1_truth

2007-02-19T14:44:41+11:00

by Ben Peek Wheatland Press (2006) ISBN:0-9755903-8-3 US$23.95 Buy this book Return to Reviews Page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Jan 2007 26 Lies/1 Truth by Ben Peek is, among other things, a book about authorial fraud. Hardly surprising, then, that Peek uses the opportunity to commit a spot of authorial fraud himself. Or does he?

99_coffins

2008-12-03T13:52:44+11:00

Book 1: 13 Bullets Book 2: 99 Coffins Book 3: Vampire Zero by David Wellington Allen & Unwin (2008) ISBN: 9781741755930 $14.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Nov 2008 This novel is the second in David Wellington's vampire trilogy; it's a significantly better novel than the first (13 Bullets), as it retains all of that novel's strengths while eliminating many of the weaknesses. 99 Coffins again focuses on Laura Caxton, the highway trooper who, in 13 Bullets, fou…

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a.j._key

2008-11-21T16:09:38+11:00

Reviews on this Site * The Beast Within

a_cage_of_butterflies

2006-07-18T18:41:09+11:00

by Brian Caswell University of Queensland Press (1992) ISBN 0-7022-2416-2 $16.95 Buy this book Go Back to Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Jul 2006 Greg and Mikki live on “the farm”, along with a number of other adolescents. “The farm” is a think-tank, a facility for genius children to live and, well, think. The story is told partly in first person (from Greg, Mikki and others), and partly third person, so the reader has a particularly privileged position. This …

a_dirty_job

2008-01-19T02:21:55+11:00

by Christopher Moore Gollancz (2007) ISBN 978-184-149603-0 $22.95 Reviewed by Simon Petrie, January 2008 A month ago, I wasn't even aware I shared the planet with anyone named Christopher Moore (although I suppose that, if pressed, I would have regarded it as a strong statistical likelihood that an entity of that name existed). Christopher Moore, it turns out, is a writer, and while he doesn't have nearly as many volumes to his credit as does Terry Pratchett, I'd say it's only a ma…

a_m_muffaz_snapshot_2007

2007-08-20T21:11:31+11:00

Interviewed by Kathryn Linge A. M. Muffaz has sold stories to a number of prominent overseas magazines and her story 'Mosquito Story' received an honorable mention in the 2006 Aurealis Awards. Future publications will include “Calamansi Juice”, in the anthology Bandersnatch (Wildside Press), and “Into the Monsoon” in Fantasy Magazine #7. She's currently working on her first novella, Finches, and a chapter appeared in Chiaroscuro #29 as Rahim. Her website is:

a_single_rose

2006-08-11T14:46:11+11:00

by Rob Aalders Sid Harta (2006) ISBN: 1-921206-00-4 $19.95 Buy this Book Back to Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Aug 2006 A Single Rose is a fairly average novel. There is nothing about it that really makes it stand out very much for either good or bad reasons. That said, it was a light and unchallenging read and is likely to be enjoyed by people seeking just that.

a_time_odyssey

2008-11-07T13:24:05+11:00

Book 1: Time's Eye Book 2: Sunstorm Book 3: Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter Firstborn Gollancz (2008) ISBN: 9780575083394 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Nov 2008 Firstborn is the concluding novel in the Clarke/Baxter trilogy, A Time Odyssey. While it could be read and enjoyed on its own, it’s obviously intended to complete the storylines started in the first two books – Time’s Eye and Sunstorm. As such, this review contains some spoil…

a_tour_guide_in_utopia

2006-03-03T17:23:15+11:00

by Lucy Sussex MirrorDanse Editions (2005) ISBN: 0-975785-20-6 $24.50 Buy this anthology Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Jan 2006 What I love about A Tour Guide in Utopia is the control that Lucy Sussex shows. Whether she is writing on a large scale or a small scale, she has a maturity to her style which few Australian speculative fiction authors can claim. If you like short stories; if you like thoughtful prose; if you like seeing a writer grow then this boo…

aa_2007_second_review

2007-02-06T12:48:16+11:00

by Rosaleen Love * Introduction * Science Fiction * Fantasy * Horror * Young Adult

aa_2007_second_review_comments

2007-02-06T12:54:49+11:00

Readers Comments Page Feel free to add your feedback and opinions concerning Rosaleen Love's Feature Article on the 2007 Aurealis Awards Shortlists. Inappropriate remarks will be removed by the Editor.

aa_2007_second_review_fantasy

2007-02-10T13:12:48+11:00

Fantasy Margo Lanagan's ‘A Fine Magic’ is a thoroughly nasty story, fine for dark fantasy and horror, but a story I never want to read again. Two sisters, residing in a fantasy/fairy-tale place, reject the advances of a man, Gallantine (not a gallant man). Gallantine uses his supernatural powers to punish them in a particularly nasty way. The end of the story is chilling. The title is ironic: the magic is far from fine. The sisters are unnamed, referred to as the younger, the elder, and m…

aa_2007_second_review_horror

2007-02-10T13:13:40+11:00

Horror Of all the stories in the horror short list, I have to say the story that won, Stephen Dedman's ‘Dead of Winter’ did not scare me at all. Call me fearless, feckless, brave beyond all measure, but the other four stories on the short list were much more frightening. Dedman’s story is a light-hearted romp, as I read it. Because of its horror listing, I kept expecting Leah, one of the principal characters and a Goth, to turn vampiric on poor Alan, her mild-mannered research assistant…

aa_2007_second_review_introduction

2007-02-06T12:54:25+11:00

Introduction When I volunteered to review the short-listed short stories in the Aurealis Awards lists, I did so in the spirit of curiosity. It was a way to read a pre-selected group of short stories published in 2006, stories that came recommended by the judges. The Aurealis short list includes 19 short stories and one graphic novel. As a keen reader and writer of the short story, I wanted to see what makes this particular group of stories special.

aa_2007_second_review_science_fiction

2007-02-08T16:01:44+11:00

Science Fiction ‘The Seventh Letter’, by Sean Williams is a word-game story. The principal character has a stroke, and wakes up to discover he has a peculiar disability. He can no longer say or hear any word that contains the letter g. In turn, Sean Williams has constructed ‘The Seventh Letter’ as a lipogram, a text in which one or more letters of the alphabet does not appear, in this case, the letter g.

aa_2007_second_review_young_adult

2007-02-10T13:23:40+11:00

Young Adult The Arrival by Shaun Tan won the Young Adult short story section of the Aurealis Awards, and won the Golden Aurealis Award for the best short story. The book is not a short story. It is marketed as a “silent graphic novel”. It says so on the back cover. It is a substantial work of art. It is original. It is stunning. It is visually stunning. That’s what it’s about. But in the context of the present review, I can’t read it as a short story, nor place it in the context of …

across_the_face_of_the_world

2009-06-28T15:06:37+11:00

Book 1: Across the Face of the World Book 2: In the Earth Abides the Flame Book 3: The Right Hand of God by Russell Kirkpatrick Across the Face of the World Voyager (2005) ISBN: 0-7322-7938-0 $19.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, January 2008 Across the Face of the World is the first of a fantasy trilogy; most readers who finish this novel will want to persist with the trilogy and find out what happens to the heroes of the novel next.

adam_bales

2008-10-14T11:08:59+11:00

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. Reviews on this Site: * New Ceres Issue 2 * The Best of ASIM Fantasy Vol 1 * Daikaiju * Underground by Andrew McGahan * ASIM 25 * Daikaiju 2 * ASIM 26 * The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapowski * Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2007 * The Fade by Chris Wooding * ASIM 32 * Strange Horizons January 2008…

adam_browne_snapshot_2007

2007-08-22T22:03:26+11:00

2007 Snapshot Interview: Adam Browne Interviewed by Ben Payne For a number of years Adam Browne has been gaining praise for his stories, which mix engaging ideas with clever wordplay and imagery. His latest story is in Orb #7 1. You're well known for your enjoyment of playing with the English language. In my experience your work tends to divide readers, between those who love it and those who find it too wordy. Is this a concern for you or is it more a matter of finding your niche and thos…

adams_gregory

2005-11-25T00:14:02+11:00

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agog_fantastic_fiction

2005-11-25T00:21:31+11:00

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agog_ripping_reads

2007-02-22T15:45:51+11:00

Edited by Cat Sparks Agog! Press (2006) ISBN: 0809562383 US$17.95 Buy this anthology Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Kyla Ward, Oct 2006 When the first Agog! anthology appeared in 2002, it stood out in a crowd that has admittedly grown denser since. Perfect bound, colourful and substantial, the editor had gone for tales of “fantasy, imagination and wonder”, whatever their genre or lack thereof. The editor, Cat Sparks, was already well-known as an artist in the local spec…

agog_series_profile

2005-11-25T00:17:46+11:00

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agog_smashing_stories

2006-02-20T14:38:02+11:00

New Australian Speculative Fiction Edited by Cat Sparks Agog! Press (2004) ISBN: 0-958056-73-0 $21.95 Buy this anthology Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Nov 2005 Most days, if you asked me to choose between a good short story and a good novel, I'd pick the short story. This isn't really anyone's fault. It has more to do with the way my life is structured. I work all day and the only times I have to read on a regular basis are when I'm on the bus in the morn…

agog_terrific_tales

2005-11-25T00:21:29+11:00

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aires_nick

2005-11-25T00:18:26+11:00

* Fantasy Readers Wanted - Apply Within, reviewed in Visions Magazine

alafaci_marie

2005-11-25T00:15:24+11:00

* Déjà vu * Wicked View, Mate

alexandra_pierce

2009-11-10T20:36:56+11:00

Alexandra Pierce reads a lot: science fiction and history, with occasional forays into fantasy. When not reading, she's wishing she was reading; she may also be cooking, watching her fish, or studying. Reviews on this Site * Mister Monday by Garth Nix * Merryll of the Stones by Brian Caswell * A Cage of Butterflies by Brian Caswell * Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix * Flight of the Raven by S K Ashley * ASIM 23 * ASIM 18 * ASIM 20 * ASIM 21 * New Ceres Issue 1 * ASIM 24 * Deuc…

alisa_krasnostein

2009-08-18T19:00:06+11:00

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 w…

alisa_krasnostein_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T01:10:35+11:00

Interviewed by Kaaron Warren Alisa Krasnostein is the Executive Editor of ASif and a founding member of Twelfth Planet Press. She is the editor of New Ceres, and coeditor of upcoming projects Shiny, a YA ezine, and 2012, a SF anthology. Q1: Alisa, you're at the centre of quite a number of projects; New Ceres, ASif, Shiny and Last Short Story. What motivates you to put in the hours you need to in order to make these work? Is it love of fiction in general, or the desire to help Australian ficti…

all_this_is_so

2006-05-04T17:55:09+11:00

by John F Roe Wakefield Press (2002) ISBN: 1-862545-79-0 $27.50 But this: Go back to Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Feb 2006 All This is So is set in a post apocalyptic future. Civilisation is managed by the Matrix, which governs daily life and limits human development in order to regrow the destroyed world. The Matrix is imperfect and a group of people come together to find redress for the destroyed life of a young girl. This quest for justice changes their society fore…

all_together_dead

2009-01-04T00:31:40+11:00

by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (2007) ISBN: 9780575083912 $29.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely, Sep 2008 All Together Dead continues the ongoing adventures of psychic sensitive barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie has come up in the paranormal world somewhat in recent times, and is now acting as an advisor to the vampire queen Sophie-Anne, in delicate dealings among the vampire rulers. Twining into the story real world events like Hurricane Katrina, and its effects on the vam…

allen_mike

2006-03-31T17:19:40+11:00

* Bananotech

alliances

2009-03-13T19:05:34+11:00

Stargate SG-1 by Karen Miller Fandemonium Books (2007) ISBN: 9781905586004 $11.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Joanna Kasper, Mar 2009 Media tie-in novels can be problematic as they are often viewed by other members of the writing community as something less than real writing. With an existing fan-base waiting eagerly for anything new, there is a temptation for publishers and authors to be less stringent in standards of writing and adhering to canon. Certainly, some of the media tie…

allira_s_gift

2008-02-10T23:17:02+11:00

Book 1: Allira’s Gift Allira's Gift by Paul Collins and Danny Willis The Five Mile Press (2007) ISBN: 978 174178 330 8 $19.95 Buy this book Reviewed by George Ivanoff, January 2008 Goblins, trolls, dragons, giant spiders, a castle and even a bunyip — this book’s got it all. It’s a fabulous feast of fantasy!

altered_carbon

2008-01-05T22:40:09+11:00

by Richard Morgan Gollancz (2007) ISBN 978-0-575-08112-3 $22.95 Buy this book Back to Reviews Page Syndicated from Andromeda Spaceways, reviewed by Simon Petrie, January 2008 Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan's first novel, is one of the eight books that Gollancz has chosen to re-issue under their new 'Future Classics' tag. It's fast-paced, convoluted, violent and thoughtful. Takeshi Kovacs is a UN Envoy-trained mercenary and petty criminal, operating on the planetary backwater of …

amberlight

2009-07-19T14:54:43+11:00

Review 1 by Lorraine Cormack, Review 2 by Tehani Wessely by Sylvia Kelso Review 1 Juno Books (2007) ISBN: 9780809572472 Price: $46.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, September 2007 In a curious coincidence, this novel reminded me strongly of the work of Roger Zelazney, whose Princes of Amber series was one of his better known works. Like Zelazney, Kelso throws her reader straight into the action, with little explanation, and leaves them to work out gradually what’s beh…

an_ice_cold_grave

2009-01-21T12:17:47+11:00

Book 1: Grave Sight Book 2: Grave Surprise Book 3: An Ice Cold Grave by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (2008) ISBN: 9780575083981 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely, Jan 2009 An Ice Cold Grave is the third book in Harris’s Grave series, which chronicles the story of Harper Connelly, struck by lightning as a teenager, and gifted, or perhaps cursed, with the ability to find dead bodies and divine their cause of death. With her step-brother Tolliver, she travels the countr…

an_unusual_angle

2008-05-20T16:49:19+11:00

by Greg Egan Norstrilia Press (1983) ISBN: 0909106118 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, May 2008 This unusual novel is not what I expected from Greg Egan and it's likely to polarise readers. I suspect that most will either like it a great deal or loathe it; not too many people will read it and have no real opinion either way. Although I didn't precisely enjoy it – I didn't find it very entertaining – I do admire the fact that Egan has been successful in writing a sto…

anathem

2008-10-14T11:08:28+11:00

by Neal Stephenson Atlantic Books (2008) ISBN: 9781843549161 $35.00 Buy this Book Reviewed by Adam Bales, Oct 2008 As science and technology develops our ability to understand the tools that we utilise everyday diminishes. When you do all of your cooking on fire, one person understands it as well as the next. If you cook in a microwave, fewer people totally understand how the machine works. Does that idea seem a little scary to you? I have to say, it doesn't to me, but I could s…

anderton_joanne

2006-02-22T19:46:59+11:00

* The Feast, 3rd place AWHA Award 2005

andrew_macrae_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T01:15:38+11:00

Image from: Interviewed by Ben Payne Andrew Macrae picked up a Ditmar recently for his artwork on the cover of Ben Peek's 26 Lies, One Truth. He forms one half of Cour de Lion publishing, soon to release a Terry Dowling collection. And his own writing can be found in Daikaiju 2.

andrew_sullivan

2005-12-04T20:54:58+11:00

Andrew Sullivan is a Canberra-based writer. His first novel was A Sunburnt Country, Ginninderra Press 2002. Reviews on this Site * Antipodean SF Issue 89 * TiconderogaOnline Issue 2

andromeda_spaceways_inflight_magazine

2008-07-07T18:14:03+11:00

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) is a bi-monthly fiction publication published by the Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Collective. The Collective formed spontaneously from the internetic ether, when a bunch of fans and writers asked themselves two related questions: “How come no-one's publishing any fun stuff any more?” and “Hey - can't we?”

angel_fever

2006-02-20T19:12:02+11:00

Visit The Quentaris Chronicles - Angel Fever for an extract by Isobelle Carmody Lothian Books (2004) ISBN: 0-734406-89-4 $14.95 Buy this Book Go Back to The Quentaris Chronicles Go back to Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Dec 2005 A giant man with wings is discovered in the Rift caves, being attacked by an evil harpy. A shy and simple-minded girl called Eely finds the courage to save him. All are struck by his beauty. He is taken to the rooftops of Quentaris to be he…

angela_slatter

2008-06-16T17:18:04+11:00

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 pro…

angela_slatter_snapshot_2007

2007-08-17T23:03:12+11:00

Interviewed by Ben Payne Another of the rising stars of local writing, Angela has sold stories to a number of prominent overseas mags, including Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and Shimmer. 1. Unlike the majority of local writers, perhaps, you've appeared chiefly in overseas publications rather than local ones. Was this a career strategy? What were the reasons for your choice of market?

angels_of_power

2006-02-20T14:19:49+11:00

and Other Reproductive Powers Edited by Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein Spinifex Press (1991) ISBN:1-875559-00-0 $19.95 Buy this book Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jan 2006 Angels of Power is an anthology designed, as the editors say in their introduction, “to foster international resistance to reproductive technologies”. It is an eclectic anthology, including plays, short stories, poetry, and visual art. The quality is similarly variable, ranging…

anna_hepworth

2009-08-26T00:14:26+11:00

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 hor…

anthologies

2008-12-09T17:52:05+11:00

2012 Angels of Power C0ck Crossroads Dark Alchemy (YA) Dreaming Again Eidolon Fantastical Journeys to Brisbane Flashspec Volume 1 Forever Shores In Bad Dreams Intimate Armageddons Matilda at the Speed of Light The New Space Opera Shadow Plays

antipodean_anthology_1999

2005-11-25T00:23:22+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Antipodean SF Anthology 1999 Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Reviewer 1 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Reviewer 2 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space.

antipodean_sf

2007-03-03T23:08:52+11:00

SF Downside-Up The webzine Antipodean SF: SF Downside-Up is a bi-monthly publication. The on-line archive of all past issues is hosted at the National Library of Australia and provides a valuable ‘mainstream’ cultural preservation of speculative fiction. The mission statement of Antipodean SF includes ‘to let the world know that there is such a beast as an Australian (i.e. Antipodean) science/speculative-fiction writer.’ However, submissions are welcomed from writers of speculative fict…

antipodean_sf_104

2007-03-13T15:47:05+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 104 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (January 2007) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Mar 2007 An eclectic mix of stories, this issue.

antipodean_sf_105

2007-03-03T23:19:19+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 105 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (February 2007) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Mar 2007 Another issue of Antipodean SF. You guys don’t need an introduction do you? Straight into it then…

antipodean_sf_106

2007-04-02T15:24:44+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 106 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (March 2007) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Anna Hepworth, Apr 2007 It has been a while since I've read an entire issue of Antipodean SF in one sitting, mostly because past issues have been frustratingly full of stories that don't quite reach their potential. Stories that make me wonder what the editor was doing, letting them through without a little more love an…

antipodean_sf_issue_1

2006-06-16T18:29:02+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 1 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Feb 1998) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Jun 2006 It's not like I don't have more pressing things to read and more urgent reviews to write up. Yet today I found myself at Antipodean SF Issue 1, back where it all started. I'll admit my idle curiosity about what the first issue looked like was upgraded to “I'll review it” because it only conta…

antipodean_sf_issue_100

2006-09-24T14:07:47+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 100 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (September 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sept 2006 AntiSF has been an Aussie institution for a long time - 100 issues, in fact! The simplicity behind the concept and the website layout is what makes it work - 10 SF, fantasy or horror stories of 500 words or less. That’s 1000 flash fiction stories in all, predominantly by Australian …

antipodean_sf_issue_2

2006-12-06T12:17:14+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 2 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Mar 1998) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Dec 2006 This second issue of AntiSF presents three stories, the Classic Reviews and a new section, Science Flicktion. I can't help feeling as though I'm waiting to see how this ezine takes off and that somehow it was treading water at this point, waiting for more submissions. I really loved the first…

antipodean_sf_issue_3

2006-07-21T14:56:12+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 3 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Apr 1998) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Jun 2006 Well, with a DAMN Index of 83, this issue with only three stories is probably worth your effort in tracking down.

antipodean_sf_issue_4

2007-04-05T16:52:24+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 4 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (May 1998) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2007 This is going back a bit - to 1998, in fact. At that time, AntiSF either could not get ten flash pieces to publish (as they do in more recent issues), or the quality wasn’t there. It’s interesting to have a look at such an old website (thanks to the National Library for archiving it), if only …

antipodean_sf_issue_50

2006-02-24T14:12:13+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 50 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (May 2002) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Marty Young, Jan 2006 AntipodeanSF Issue 50 was released on 26th May, 2002, with “sixteen fabulous original short-short (flash) SF stories that entertain, yet won't take hours to read.” Ion Newcombe, the editor of this quirky e-zine, generally holds true to that statement, too. Flash fiction done well is like peeking …

antipodean_sf_issue_58

2005-11-25T00:23:19+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 58 February - March 2003 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 1 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 2

antipodean_sf_issue_67

2006-05-01T18:27:14+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 67 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Dec/Jan 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Phillip Ellis, Nov 2005 One pleasure about reviewing a magazine, like Antipodean SF, is the potential for a diversity of material that might otherwise be missed. For the most part, this potential is unavailable to me; I tend to read less for pure pleasure and more for other reasons, given the various demands upon my ti…

antipodean_sf_issue_67_new

2005-11-25T00:25:49+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 67 December - January 2004 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Kathryn Linge I’m afraid I found this issue of Antipodean SF a bit thin on the ground – a lot of stories made it into the ‘maybe’ and ‘not’ categories for me, rather than ‘definitely’ and thus the DAMN Index could only be stretched to 50. By far the best story for me was ‘Know it All’ by Martin Livings – it’s of a quality well above most oth…

antipodean_sf_issue_68

2006-10-06T17:07:28+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 68 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Jan/Feb 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Mari Ness, Oct 2006 Antipodean SF focuses on flash fiction, a deceptively simple genre which forces authors to write a short story – plot, characters, setting and all – in under 500 words. This might seem easy enough. After all, if the story must be under 500 words, then technically a writer doesn't have to actua…

antipodean_sf_issue_69

2005-11-25T00:23:14+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 69 February - March 2004 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 1 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 2

antipodean_sf_issue_71

2005-11-25T00:19:25+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 71 April - May 2004 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 1 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 2

antipodean_sf_issue_74

2006-05-01T18:26:21+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 74 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Jul/Aug 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Thew Skinner, Nov 2005 This issue of Antipodean SF is a very good mix of stories and well worth the read.

antipodean_sf_issue_75

2006-05-01T18:23:50+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 75 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Aug/Sep 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, Nov 2005 The Best Antipodean SF Issue Ever! At least of those I’ve reviewed anyway. I’m told this, not only by the issue's impressive DAMN Index (80), but also by the list of authors that are represented. Shaun A Saunders, Martin Livings and Kristopher Lee Hembury all make this issue worth reading.…

antipodean_sf_issue_75_new

2005-11-25T00:25:55+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 75 August - September 2004 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Kathryn Linge The Best Antipodean SF Issue Ever! At least of those I’ve reviewed anyway. I’m told this, not only by the issue's impressive DAMN Index (80), but also by the list of authors that are represented. Shaun A Saunders, Martin Livings and Kristopher Lee Hembury all make this issue worth reading. The issue starts with Shaun A Saunders’ ‘1984 + 20?’. A…

antipodean_sf_issue_76

2006-05-01T18:22:43+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 76 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Sep/Oct 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Nov 2005 This issue of Antipodean SF is much the same as the others – interesting links, as always, with the short fiction and poems being the highlight of the issue.

antipodean_sf_issue_77

2006-05-01T18:21:15+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 77 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Oct/Nov 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Nov 2005 The usual deal: 10 flash fictions (all by Australian authors this time), one flash feature, one well-presented monthly webzine.

antipodean_sf_issue_78

2006-05-01T18:16:40+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 78 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Nov/Dec 2004) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Nov 2005 Another issue of Ion Newcombe’s webzine, which has probably begun the careers of more Australian writers than all other magazines put together. Once again, there are a few names here that, if not new, are certainly new to me, and Newcombe deserves credit for his continuing encouragement of new tale…

antipodean_sf_issue_79

2006-05-15T17:49:20+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 79 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Dec/Jan 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Mari Ness, Nov 2005 Flash fiction has become trendy these days, and for good reason. It fits our current internet lifestyle; it's easy to read on your PalmPilot or Blackberry, in those little sections of life when you're standing in line, thinking, what a total waste of time this is – wait! I can read some quick fict…

antipodean_sf_issue_79_new

2005-11-25T00:26:00+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 79 December - January 2005 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Marty Young Antipodean SF Issue 79. Hmm, what a strange place to find yourself on a Sunday afternoon. Half of the time I wasn’t sure what was going on, and the other half I was grinning at the odd humour and witty stories (if the pieces of prose could be called such) found in this issue. This was my first encounter with Antipodean SF, and the quirky, micro-flash tal…

antipodean_sf_issue_80

2006-05-01T18:15:24+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 80 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Jan/Feb 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, Nov 2005 Overall, I found Issue 80 of Antipodean SF to be a bit mixed in quality and this is reflected in its relatively low DAMN Index (55). But please don’t give up on it - there are gems to be had and I shall list them now. ‘Song for the Lost’, by Jason Fischer, is very good, and just a little …

antipodean_sf_issue_80_1

2005-11-25T00:16:00+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 80 Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 1 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to the reviews page Read this issue Reviewed by Reviewer 2 A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space.

antipodean_sf_issue_81

2006-05-01T18:12:59+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 81 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Feb/Mar 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Curufea, Nov 2005 Huge kudos for AntiSF here for offering a text-only version of their page. That really appeals to the webmaster in me - offering a version of your site for people who can't or won't want all the guff and flash. The layout of the site is good with the various areas easy to find. Having icons as well …

antipodean_sf_issue_82

2006-05-01T18:12:07+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 82 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Mar/Apr 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, Nov 2005 Antipodean SF serves to showcase both antipodean authors, and antipodean stories. Issue number 82 contains around ten short (to ultra short) stories, each aiming to ‘flip the mind of the reader into another realm’. By far my favourite was “Fear”, by Lea Greenaway. What at first seems to b…

antipodean_sf_issue_83

2006-05-01T18:11:03+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 83 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Apr/May 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Nov 2005 Since 1998, Antipodean SF (AntiSF) has been an online outpost for Australian science fiction, a brave beacon beaming brightly into the darkness of the world at large saying “oi, look here, there's good science fiction to be had in Australia!” - or something like that.

antipodean_sf_issue_84

2006-05-01T18:08:43+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 84 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (May/Jun 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Thew Skinner, Nov 2005 This issue of Antipodean SF is an excellent example of good writing, it is mostly entertaining and in all cases well written. I would give this issue to anyone to read.

antipodean_sf_issue_85

2006-05-01T18:05:53+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 85 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Jun/Jul 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Marty Young, Nov 2005 AntipodeanSF seems to be a collection of superficially bizarre journeys through strange speculative fiction worlds – superficially bizarre but often with deeper or moralistic meanings. However, Issue 85 is a ‘relatively’ sane and rational journey from start to finish. Not that there is any…

antipodean_sf_issue_86

2006-05-01T18:00:52+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 86 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Jul/Aug 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Mark Deniz, Mar 2006 I had been forced to put off my review of this issue of Antipodean SF, as pressing work commitments piled up, but was rewarded with an overall enjoyable read when I finally got the chance to sit down and go through the ten stories, unrelated but for their science-fiction connection.

antipodean_sf_issue_87

2007-04-05T16:32:13+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 87 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Aug/Sep 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2007 Another buffet of 10 flash pieces, as served by the chefs at AntiSF!

antipodean_sf_issue_89

2006-04-25T14:20:52+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 89 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Nov 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Val Toh, Dec 2005 The best way I can find to describe this E-zine is “short, sharp shocks”.

antipodean_sf_issue_90

2006-04-25T14:29:19+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 90 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Nov 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Apr 2006 I have to admit up front that I’m not a big fan of flash fiction. I much prefer to settle back, pull up the covers and snuggle into the words of a good plot and I just find that the average flash fiction piece doesn’t give me the amount of words I need to enjoy a story. That means that the…

antipodean_sf_issue_91

2006-05-22T14:10:42+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 91 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (December 2005) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, May 2006 This issue of Antipodean SF scored a DAMN Index of 45 for me. A couple of stories stood out in this batch: Susan Wardle's “Baby Time”, “Marlowe Strawl” by Chuck McKenzie and “The Cliff Dream or A Tribute to Edgar Allan Poe” by Adrian Gibb.

antipodean_sf_issue_92

2006-05-24T12:18:31+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 92 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (January 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, May 2006 As usual, ten flash fiction pieces for your reading pleasure. The funniest piece is the short short - Shaun A Saunders is my man. Especially when he is mocking President Bush.

antipodean_sf_issue_93

2006-05-23T12:26:36+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 93 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (Feb 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Feb 2006 Another issue of Antipodean SF has swung around again, delivering us another dose of promising newer authors in bite-size servings.

antipodean_sf_issue_94

2006-05-11T14:55:41+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 94 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (March 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, May 2006 My DAMN Index rating of 65 tells me that this issue of Antipodean SF is one not to miss. In fact, it tells me that there are four pieces of flash fiction here well worth reading.

antipodean_sf_issue_95

2006-05-10T17:15:21+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 95 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (April 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, May 2006 I didn't overly enjoy Issue 95 of Antipodean SF. My overall DAMN Index rating came to 30 and to me, none of the stories stood out above the rest.

antipodean_sf_issue_96

2006-06-06T18:15:27+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 96 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (May 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Jun 2006 There are a couple of standout pieces in Issue 96 of Antipodean SF. I am forced to start with “The Doctor” by Brenda Steedman. Anything, and I mean anything, that jerks around our Prime Minister is a top notch story for me. As usual, the moral of this story is beware giving power to people s…

antipodean_sf_issue_97

2006-09-01T18:46:19+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 97 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (June 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Jun 2006 This issue of AntipodeanSF garnered a DAMN Index of 50 from me. Almost all the stories fell into the 'maybe worth reading' category. The stand out story was Peter Tennant's “The Dead Planet”. Read it through for the punchline and you'll see why I think that. An archaeological expedition t…

antipodean_sf_issue_98

2007-03-16T11:55:51+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine ISsue 98 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (July 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, March 2007 Exams, strays, malnutrition and shearing sheds: hello, AntiSF number 98.

antipodean_sf_issue_99

2007-03-30T12:44:07+11:00

SF Downside-up Online magazine Issue 99 edited by Ion Newcombe Antipodean SF (August 2006) ISSN: ISSN 1442-0686 Read this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, March 2007 AntiSF 99 delivers up another eclectic collection of flash fiction for your reading delectation.

antique_futures

2008-02-03T20:35:25+11:00

The Best of Terry Dowling by Terry Dowling mp Books (1999) ISBN: 0-646-37533-4 This Book is Out of Print Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, March 2007 Terry Dowling has often struck me as one of the most distinctively Australian speculative fiction writers around. In large part, this is because of his Captain Tom Rynosseros stories. It’s not just the setting that makes these so distinctive; Dowling has also extrapolated what’s happening between Indigenous a…

antisf_awards_2004

2005-11-25T00:23:11+11:00

SF Downside-Up Antipodean SF Awards 2004 Nominations to be announced soon! Back to reviews page

antonelli_lou

2006-03-15T17:18:45+11:00

* The Cast Iron Dybbuk

aphrodite_s_workshop_for_reluctant_lovers

2009-07-23T20:45:25+11:00

by Marika Cobbold Bloomsbury (2009) ISBN: 9780747599036 $29.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jul 2009 I was expecting Aphrodite’s Workshop For Reluctant Lovers to be light and amusing - chick lit with a dash of fantasy. Unfortunately, it wasn't; unfortunately because although this novel has many strengths, it is very bitter. And that's a shock if you're expecting sweet and fluffy. Rebecca Finch is a successful romantic novelist who’s slowly coming to realise t…

april_2008_headlines

2008-06-16T11:43:50+11:00

Friday April 25 2008 * Locus Awards Finalists 2008 Wednesday April 23 2008 * Cory Doctorow's new YA book Little Brother comes out next week * Small Beer Press announces their third Creative Commons release, Maureen F. McHugh’s collection Mothers & other Monsters.

argall_liz

2005-11-25T00:20:37+11:00

* Fly Away Home * Graveyard Shift * Meat Puppet * Zombie Girl

arnold_alan

2006-01-27T17:40:10+11:00

* Cloud Reader

arnold_ashley

2006-02-24T18:52:09+11:00

* Ascorbic * Skin, Bone and Sinew * Clothed in Daylight

asif_projects

2008-12-21T15:32:59+11:00

* The ASif Podcast * ASif Recommended Reading List * Ditmar Awards and Eligibles Lists * Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth * Snapshot 2007

asif_recommended_reading_list

2009-02-04T16:32:17+11:00

Here at ASif! our reviewer numbers are growing and so is our consumption of Australian specfic. For every publication, we're hoping to give you 2 reviews. That's like a 2 for 1 deal or a Double or Nothing, or something. In any case, ASif! reviewers love Australian specfic and they read more of it than they could ever review. We thought we'd ask each Asif! reviewer, and invited some editors and reviewers about the scene as well, to list all the published works they liked in the year, the core wor…

asif_recommended_reading_list_2005

2006-07-21T17:05:04+11:00

* The Grinding House by Kaaron Warren * A Tour Guide in Utopia by Lucy Sussex * Shadow Box edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Angela Challis * Uglies by Scott Westerfeld * “Machiato Lane” by Cat Sparks in TiconderogaOnline Issue 5 * “Johnny Cash (A Tale in Questionnaire Results)” by Ben Peek in Shadowed Realms Issue 4 * “Fresh Young Widow” by Kaaron Warren in The Grinding House * “The Memory of Breathing” by Lyn Triffitt in ASIM 17 * “Matricide” by Lucy Sus…

asif_recommended_reading_list_2006

2007-01-16T14:16:32+11:00

This year's list was compiled from the ASif! reviewers alone. All reviewers were asked to put forward a list of unlimited length of all the works published in 2006 that they felt were worth reading. All works with 2 or more votes are listed below.

asif_recommended_reading_list_2008

2009-02-04T17:46:50+11:00

Short Stories “The Spirit and the Slave” by Stuart Barrow (ASIM 35) “The Doctor's Tale” by Ben Bastion (Canterbury 2100) “Never Grow Old” by Lee Battersby (Aurealis 40) “Seven Ages of the Protagonist” by Deborah Biancotti (Scary Food) “Neverland Blues” by Adam Browne (Dreaming Again) “A Pox on All Your Houses: a tale of Singh and Daughter” by Stephanie Campisi (Dog versus Sandwich) “Watertight Lies” by Deborah Biancotti (2012) …

asim_12

2006-06-13T16:20:23+11:00

Issue 12 edited by Edwina Harvey Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Apr/May 2004) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Jun 2006 Two years on, and this issue of ASIM is still a lot of fun to read, and I’m just plain amazed at how many of the stories in here have stuck in my head through that time.

asim_13

2007-07-31T13:45:22+11:00

Issue 13 edited by Andrew Finch Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Jun/Jul 2004) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Feb 2006 Overall, ASIM 13 struck me as an uneven collection of stories. Although it contained some gems, it also included some fairly average stories.

asim_14

2006-05-01T16:59:42+11:00

Issue 14 edited by Zara Baxter Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Aug/Sep 2004) ISSN: 1446-781X $5.00 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Feb 2006 Overall, this was an enjoyable issue - better than others I've read. Most of the stories were an enjoyable read, although few of them struck me as particularly memorable.

asim_15

2006-06-25T15:19:52+11:00

Issue 15 edited by Robbie Matthews Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Oct/Nov 2004) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Nov 2005 Even without my unswerving support for the fine entities at Andromeda Spaceways, I still would have picked up this issue of their Inflight Magazine because of the unbearably quirky cover art. Oh, sure, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) has always had really beautiful covers – my fa…

asim_16

2006-07-21T14:21:53+11:00

Issue 16 edited by Tehani Croft Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Dec/Jan 2005) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Mar 2006 This is by far the best issue of ASIM I've read to date. While most issues have some good stories, in this issue the overall quality of all the stories was higher, and I enjoyed the bulk of them.

asim_17

2008-06-29T12:51:37+11:00

Issue 17 edited by Sally Beasley Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Feb/Mar 2005) ISSN: 1446-781X $5 Buy this issue Reviewed by Adam Bales, Jun 2008 The ASIM team published a Best-Of anthology of the fantasy that had been published in the first eighteen issues of their magazine. Two of my favourite stories from that anthology come from ASIM Issue 17 and so it probably comes as no surprise that I really enjoyed this issue. The first story in this issue is Constance Cooper's…

asim_18

2006-09-25T18:23:00+11:00

Issue 18 edited by Ben Payne Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Apr/May 2005) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Talie Helene, Aug 2006 ASIM Issue 18 sports a vibrant cover illustration by Conny Valentina, depicting an Amazonian curvaceous goddess type, suspending a glowing orb between her open palms – is it a sprite, or the known universe? (It could go either way!) Ben Payne offers his editorial – hilarious even by ASIM standards �…

asim_19

2006-06-13T18:20:08+11:00

Issue 19 edited by Ian Nichols Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Jun/Jul 2005) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Mar 2006 This was a rather mediocre issue, with few stories that really interested or engaged me.

asim_2

2006-06-04T07:51:47+11:00

Issue 2 edited by Robbie Matthews Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Aug/Sep 2002) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Nov 2005 ASIM is not a magazine like most other magazines. This is not because of its declaration to be very firmly pulp, or because of its particular mixture of stories and articles and light fillers and reviews. It is because of the editorial policy. Because of this editorial policy, this and the next …

asim_20

2006-08-31T16:15:51+11:00

Issue 20 edited by Stuart Barrow Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Aug/Sep 2005) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Bryn Sparks, Nov 2005 Editor Stuart Barrow points out in the opening pages of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 20 the need for speculative fiction to have an element of fun if it wants to cross the divide between “uh-huh” and “hey, cool!”. Barrow’s other editorial offering of note is the Gastronomicon, a sp…

asim_21

2006-11-21T15:06:10+11:00

Issue 21 edited by Monissa Whiteley Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Oct/Nov 2005) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, August 2006 There was no editorial with this issue, so I don’t know if there was meant to be a unifying theme or not. So, just as the issue does, let me jump straight to the first story, “Between a Rock and God’s Place,” by Lazette Gifford. Brilliant! The gods of Beggars, Thieves, Lawyers …

asim_22

2006-07-25T13:37:34+11:00

Issue 22 edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Jan/Feb 2006) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, May 2006 And so it came to pass that Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) published their 22nd issue and I read my first. How can it be that I’ve only just read my first issue? Certainly I’ve been aware of ASIM and it’s 30-odd strong collective for a year or two. Heck, I even slushed f…

asim_23

2006-08-23T17:11:19+11:00

Issue 23 edited by Stuart Barrow, Zara Baxter and Terri Sellen Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Mar/Apr 2006) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Aug 2006 This issue of ASIM was edited by three people, reflecting the issue as a whole - a collaboration issue: a story either written by more than one person, or on the theme of collaboration. I’ve never really understood how writing with another person could work; cons…

asim_24

2006-09-24T14:24:55+11:00

Issue 24 edited by Edwina Harvey Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Jun/Jul 2006) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Sep 2006 This is another eclectic collection of short stories from the Andromeda Spaceways crew, from both Aussie and overseas authors. One thing that sometimes makes me sad is that they can’t fill the pages with only Aussie authors, but it seems we are some way from being able to do that. Nonetheless…

asim_25

2007-08-31T14:04:27+11:00

Issue 25 edited by Nicole Murphy Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Aug/Sep 2006) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Sep 2006 Some gremlins got into an issue of ASIM a while ago, where two pages from the issue before accidentally got reprinted, right in the middle of a story. It was very annoying. As a result, the ASIM crew have done a very clever thing. The very first thing I noticed when I opened my ASIM envelope (a…

asim_26

2007-09-10T20:04:00+11:00

Issue 26 edited by Andrew Finch Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Oct/Nov 2006) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $7.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Dec 2006 This was an... interesting issue of ASIM. I have to admit that it is not my favourite issue ever; some stories left me a bit cold, for reasons I’ll elaborate below. Others, though, were fantastic, which made reading it worthwhile. I am reminded that productions like this are intriguing beasts,…

asim_27

2008-06-30T17:53:47+11:00

Issue 27 edited by Tehani Croft (after Ben Cook spontaneously combusted… or something equally improbable) Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2007) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Mar 2007 Issue 27 has one of the least pulpiest covers I think I have ever seen on ASIM. It simply has a majestic white unicorn rearing before an over-sized full moon, with a couple of trees in the middle ground. Don’t get me wrong …

asim_28

2007-04-12T12:08:55+11:00

Issue 28 edited by Zara BAxter Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2007) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2007 Ah, ASIM. How we love acronyms. As a semi-tribute, I’ve decided to go alphabetical with this review.*

asim_29

2007-06-25T16:58:32+11:00

Issue 29 edited by Dirk Flinthart Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2007) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Angela Slatter, June 2007 Ladies and Gentlemen, I come before you today as living proof that one can read an issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in one sitting, aided only by a large packet of Wonka Redskins™ and at the cost of only three fillings pulled out by the pink, chewy goodness of said Redskins™. Sure, I…

asim_3

2006-08-22T13:15:11+11:00

Issue 3 edited by Ian Nichols Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Oct/Nov 2002) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Nov 2005 ASIM is not a magazine like most other magazines. This is not because of its declaration to be very firmly pulp, or because of its particular mixture of stories and articles and light fillers and reviews. It is because of the editorial policy. Because of this editorial policy, this and the next two …

asim_30

2007-10-09T17:03:35+11:00

Issue 30 edited by Robbie Matthews Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2007) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, October 2007 Thirty issues! I have to admit that ASIM is my first love of Aussie small press. I’m not completely pie-eyed, but I think it is regularly a good thing. So here are my reasons for liking this issue:

asim_31

2007-10-09T12:36:58+11:00

Issue 31 edited by Tehani Wessely Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2007) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, October 2007 As far as I am concerned, ASIM is a highlight of my bi-monthly existence. It was the first small-press magazine I ever encountered, and I enjoy getting it every single time. This is why...

asim_32

2008-02-26T16:24:31+11:00

Issue 32 edited by Monissa Whiteley Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2008) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $8.95 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Adam Bales, January 2008 Issue 32 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) collects together an enjoyable selection of stories that fit well together.

asim_35

2008-11-04T14:57:45+11:00

Issue 35 edited by Simon Petrie Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2008) ISSN: 1446-781X $8.95 Buy this issue Reviewed by Adam Bales, Jul 2008 Simon Petrie edits Issue 35 of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) and he kicks it off with an editorial about the quest for novelty and originality in stories. I don't think the stories in this issue are any more original, for the most part, than your average speculative fiction story but I do think that this issue of ASIM is s…

asim_4

2006-10-06T16:56:46+11:00

Issue 4 edited by Tehani Croft Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Dec 2002) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, October 2006 As far as speculative fiction serials go, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) is definitely one of my favourites, but I'll be the first to admit that the issues are rarely altogether good nor completely unreadable. Luckily, I've always considered that one of its strengths, because that mean…

asim_5

2006-02-23T18:10:33+11:00

Issue 5 edited by Danuta Shaw Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Feb/Mar 2003) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Nov 2005 ASIM is not a magazine like most other magazines. This is not because of its declaration to be very firmly pulp, or because of its particular mixture of stories and articles and light fillers and reviews. It is because of the editorial policy. Because of this editorial policy, this and the next two…

asim_6

2006-08-22T13:10:57+11:00

Issue 6 edited by Nigel Read Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Apr/May 2003) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Mari Ness, Nov 2005 I have a sneaking love of the old science fiction movies with their impossible plots and terrible dialogue. (I like them even better through the lens of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I can MST my own films when need be, thanks.) They're just pure fun. And along comes Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazi…

asim_6_1

2005-11-25T00:24:13+11:00

RRP $7.95 Issue 6 April/May 2003 Go back to the reviews page Order this issue Reviewed by Mari Ness I have a sneaking love of the old science fiction movies with their impossible plots and terrible dialogue. (I like them even better through the lens of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I can MST my own films when need be, thanks.) They're just pure fun. And along comes Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine to offer that same fun, only with better plotting and considerably better di…

asim_7

2006-12-05T17:28:29+11:00

Issue 7 edited by Terri Sellen Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Jun/Jul 2003) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Talie Helene, Oct 2006 ASIM Issue 7 has a particularly stunning punked-up fantasy cover, by Les Petersen; youthful, a bit sexy, a lot of fun. The best cover on an ASIM I’ve yet seen (and the standard of cover art is quite high.) ASIM declares itself “Australia’s PULPIEST Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine”, and the …

asim_8

2006-06-01T17:12:10+11:00

Issue 8 edited by Sally Beasley Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (Aug/Sep 2003) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Devin Jeyathurai, Jun 2006 This was not my favourite issue of ASIM, with a bunch of decent stories, but nothing that stood out.

asim_9

2007-04-14T20:14:31+11:00

Issue 9 edited by Tansy Rayner Roberts Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-Op (2003) ISSN: 1-4467-81-X $5 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2007 In Roberts’ editorial, she expresses some surprise that they made it to the ninth issue. It must have been an exciting time, to see the magazine go into its third year and still full of great short fiction.

asim_best_of_fantasy

2007-07-04T14:52:32+11:00

edited by Tehani Wessely Andromeda Spaceways Collective (2007) $10 (pdf) Buy this Anthology Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Adam Bales, July 2007 After releasing eighteen volumes of the Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Entertainment Magazine (hereafter, ASIM), the Collective behind it decided to compile a best of anthology for each of the three genres they publish in. When I received my copy of The Best of ASIM Fantasy I had a number of questions. Will it be too long? How good will the sto…

asimovs_science_fiction

2008-04-07T17:13:08+11:00

edited by Sheila Williams * Asimovs Science Fiction February 2008 * Asimovs Science Fiction March 2008 * Asimovs Science Fiction April 2008

asimovs_science_fiction_april_2008

2008-02-14T23:38:25+11:00

Vol. 32 nos. 4 & 5 (April/May 2008) edited by Sheila Williams Vol. 32 nos. 4 & 5 (April/May 2008) Dell Magazines (2008) ISSN: 10652698 Reviewed by Simon Petrie, Feb 2008 This double issue of Asimov's contains one novella, three novelettes and seven short stories. It also includes several poems and regular non-fiction features; my PDF package included only the fiction, and so I've restricted my review to the eleven stories that comprise this issue. “Memory Dog” by Kathleen An…

asimovs_science_fiction_february_2008

2008-04-06T01:14:42+11:00

Vol. 32 no. 2 (February 2008) edited by Sheila Williams Dell Magazines (Feb 2008) ISSN: 10652698 Reviewed by Simon Petrie, April 2008 This issue of Asimov's contains seven pieces of fiction, including the final chapters of a serialised novel, “Galaxy Blues”, for which I've provided an overall review below. It also includes several poems and regular non-fiction features, not reviewed here. Michael Swanwick's “From Babel's Fall'n Glory We Fled” is, in several places, too…

asimovs_science_fiction_march_2008

2008-04-07T17:13:59+11:00

Vol. 32 no. 3 (March 2008) edited by Sheila Williams Dell Magazines (2008) ISSN: 10652698 $RRP Buy this Issue Reviewed by Simon Petrie, Apr 2008 This issue of Asimov's contains four novelettes and four short stories. It also includes several poems and regular non-fiction features; my pdf package included only the fiction, and so I've restricted my review to the eight stories that comprise this issue. “Following the Pharmers” by Brian Stableford has too many soliloquies (di…

astropolis

2009-11-10T20:36:02+11:00

Book 1: Saturn Returns Novella: Cenotaxis Book 2: Earth Ascendant Book 3: The Grand Conjunction by Sean Williams Saturn Returns Orbit (2007) ISBN: 9781841495187 $32.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Nov 2009 I have a flaky memory. It is, appropriately, random: some trivial things I will remember for a ridiculously long time, while important names or events go through my mind as through the proverbial sieve. As a consequence, the idea of amnesia has long had somethi…

at_the_house_of_the_magician

2008-05-12T23:03:36+11:00

Book 1: At the House of the Magician Book 2: By Royal Command by Mary Hooper At the House of the Magician Bloomsbury (2007) ISBN: 9780747588863 $19.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Feb 2008 At the House of the Magician is a historical novel, set in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Although there are definite magical elements to the novel, some of these are ambiguous, and all are a relatively minor part of the novel. Lucy, the narrator of the story, is a …

august_2008_headlines

2008-11-25T13:08:26+11:00

Thursday August 14 2008 Tuesday August 12 2008 * Black Magazine classifieds - Deadline for Issue 2 Ads is this Friday * Speculative fiction writers' retreat - Friday 26 Sep to Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Leura, Blue Mountains with Tutors Terry Dowling, Robert Hood and Cat Sparks. Contact Mac North at: Maclaren dot north@gmail.com

aurealis

2007-03-25T19:54:45+11:00

Aurealis is Australia’s longest running science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine, having been founded in 1990 by Dirk Strasser and Stephen Higgins, who edited the magazine throughout the decade. In the new century it has been edited by Keith Stevenson, and more recently by Robert Hoge and Ben Payne. It is committed to bringing readers the best of Australian speculative fiction writing, both from new and established authors.

aurealis_2005

2005-11-25T00:24:09+11:00

Aurealis Awards 2005 * Aurealis Awards * Science Fiction Category * Fantasy Category * Horror Category * Young Adult Category * Children Category

aurealis_awards

2005-11-25T00:26:39+11:00

The Aurealis Awards are awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including novels and short stories. The classifications for the awards include science fiction, fantasy, horror, work for young adults and work for children. Each classification has its own judge.

aurealis_awards_2007_a_review

2007-01-09T13:15:35+11:00

aurealis_awards_2007_fantasy

2007-01-12T14:26:05+11:00

Fantasy The 2006 fantasy panel convenor was Tansy Rayner Roberts. Roberts was the first winner of the George Turner Award for best unpublished manuscript, of which her novel, Splashdance Silver, won. A sequel, Liquid Gold, set in the same world, followed. Since then, she has published short fiction in a number of local magazines and anthologies, reviewed for the ASif! site, and been part of the editorial committee for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Along with Chuck McKenzie, she edited…

aurealis_awards_2007_feature_article

2007-01-09T13:16:10+11:00

by Ben Peek * Introduction * Science Fiction * Fantasy * Horror * Young Adult

aurealis_awards_2007_horror

2007-01-12T12:12:03+11:00

Horror The 2006 horror panel had four judges upon it this year, though it was not alone in this, as the children's literature panel was likewise filled with four judges. Acting as convenor for the horror panel was Cat Sparks, who is the publisher of Agog! Press, and editor of four Agog! anthologies. In addition to this, Sparks is an internationally published author of fiction and collage based artist. She is joined by Stephanie Gunn, who has published a handful of dark fiction both within and …

aurealis_awards_2007_introduction

2007-01-10T09:55:51+11:00

Introduction Imagine: you do not know anything about Australian Speculative Fiction. You were not born in Australia. You were born in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Israel, or maybe even Russia. I have heard Iceland is particularly nice—and Canada, though not Calgary—so perhaps you were lucky and born in either of those places. Somewhere, somehow, you came across an Australian author, liked him or her or it, and thought, “I wonder what the rest of the local fiction ther…

aurealis_awards_2007_readers_comments

2008-01-25T14:57:28+11:00

Readers Comments Page Feel free to add your feedback and opinions concerning Ben Peek's Feature Article on the 2007 Aurealis Awards Shortlists. Inappropriate remarks will be removed by the Editor.

aurealis_awards_2007_science_fiction

2007-01-10T18:21:49+11:00

Science Fiction I will be starting each section with a brief run down on the judges of each panel. It is important to show that behind an award is a group of individuals who not only perform hard work throughout the year, but who are also unique individuals, with likes and dislikes just as any other person has, and it is these that shape the awards each year. The majority of the people involved do have a web presence, and with a little assistance of google, it is not difficult for a reader to …

aurealis_awards_2007_young_adult

2007-01-15T00:22:41+11:00

Young Adult In 2006, the young adult panel convenor was Diane de Bellis. This year, I believe, marks the fifth year that Bellis has been involved in the judging of the Aurealis Awards, and she is one of those rare people, like Lilla Smee and Damien Warman, who have no professional connection—that I could find—to the work produced. Also part of the panel was Katherine Phelps, who is the author of the non-fiction book, Surfs Up: Internet Australian Style, and is one half of the team behind t…

aurealis_awards_2008_feature_article

2008-01-25T14:58:52+11:00

by Tansy Rayner Roberts I love lists. Lists are good. For a long time I was using the Locus Recommended Reading list as a guide to novels and short stories I should hunt down. I got quite obsessive with it, crossing them off the list when I had read them, comparing year to year, and so on.

aurealis_issue_36

2006-05-26T18:16:56+11:00

Issue 36 edited by Ben Payne and Robert Hoge Chimaera Publications (2005) ISSN: $6.00 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Donna Maree Hanson, May 2006 This was a long awaited edition of Aurealis. Mostly because of the change of editorship from Keith Stevenson and the length of time it took to get printed. Production issues aside I enjoyed this edition. The cover art is great ... a good start. Overall it was the first time in a long time that I read a magazine fr…

aurealis_issue_37

2007-03-25T20:04:45+11:00

Issue 37 edited by Stephen Higgins and Stuart Mayne Chimaera Publications (2007) ISSN: 1035-1205 $6.00 Buy this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, March 2007 So Aurealis is back again. This, the oldest of the current Australian speculative fiction magazines, has returned with a new/old editing team (Stephen Higgins was one of Aurealis’s original editors) and an apparent plan to return to a quarterly publication schedule.

aussie_specfic_carnival

2008-05-16T21:02:09+11:00

What is the Australian speculative fiction carnival What is a carnival? These pages explain it in detail: and What is *this* carnival? It is a showcase of the most interesting weblog posts about Australian speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy and horror).

australian_dark_fantasy_and_horror_2006

2007-03-17T19:56:22+11:00

edited by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings Brimstone Press (2006) ISBN:0-9802817-0-5 $19.95 Buy this anthology Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Paul Mannering, March 2007 Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror opens with an introduction that speaks with authority on the phenomenon that Dark Fantasy has become in both Australia and across the Western world. The editors have clearly identified a winning formula of sub-genre and to prove their point have gathered the finest…

australian_reader

2007-03-19T13:39:18+11:00

AustralianReader.com (www.australianreader.com) bills itself as releasing new fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Australian authors. The fiction section is mostly short stories, with the occasional excerpt of what will presumably be novels when they grow up. It is not exclusively for the Scifi and Fantasy markets - many other genres are also covered, like Adventure and Romance (and I’m still not sure what ‘Experimental’ is meant to mean...). The updating of the site seems to be fairly ra…

australian_reader_crime

2007-03-19T13:48:44+11:00

Wishbone Street Kate Smith Read it Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Mar 2007 Review disclaimer: I am friends with the author. Wishbone Street. A strange street in a strange town, namely Pandora’s Edge. It is an apt name: a town where good or bad could come at you from the shadows; a liminal place where the line between real and unreal, possible and impossible, seems to be a bit shadier than usual.

australian_reader_fantasy

2007-03-01T18:15:47+11:00

Looking for Mr Shakespeare Pauline Montagna Read it Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Oct 2006 This story appears in the Fantasy section of AustralianReader.com; I’m not entirely sure why it is not in the Science Fiction section, involving as it does time travel and all the paradoxical issues inherent therein; but there it is.

australian_reader_science_fiction

2007-04-15T17:24:30+11:00

“The Grunge” Margaret Pearce Read It Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, April 2007 Set on Onseer, a frontier planet that does bad things to human reproduction, this is a chilling story of genetics and breeding whose conclusion spoils the story.

australian_shadows_awards

2006-02-21T13:56:40+11:00

* The Grinding House (CSFG Publishing) by Kaaron Warren * Shadow Box (Brimstone Press) edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings & Angela Challis * “Pater Familias” (Shadowed Realms Issue 3) by Lee Battersby * “Father Muerte and the Flesh” (Aurealis #36) by Lee Battersby * “The Red Priest's Homecoming” (ASIM 17) by Dirk Flinthart

australian_speculative_fiction

2006-03-28T17:49:48+11:00

by Donna Maree Hanson Australian Speculative Fiction (2005) ISBN: 0-975721-70-4 $44.99 Buy this book Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Jan 2006 Buy this book - not just because its very pretty and will look great on your coffee table but because it is highly informative and a fascinating read. I read it with pen and paper in hand and constructed two lists - one of the books and authors I need to track down to be reviewed here and the other for my 2006 readin…

australien_absurdities

2005-11-25T00:21:32+11:00

A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

austwick_m_j

2005-12-01T19:05:52+11:00

* The Rat Catcher

avilion

2009-09-17T01:54:04+11:00

Review 1 by Gillian Polack by Robert Holdstock Review 1 Gollancz (2009) ISBN: 978 0 575 08301 1 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Gillian Polack Sep 2009 Robert Holdstock is a writer I watch very closely, hoping for a repeat of a miracle. Not one of his novels is bad. His worst is better than the best of many other writers. One of his novels, however, is magic: Mythago Wood is lyrical and dangerous and very mysterious. Its previous sequels (labelled as part of the Mythago Cyc…

awards

2008-04-19T17:25:19+11:00

Ditmars - annual speculative fiction awards recognizing excellence, presented at the National Convention. Details published on the Bullsheet annually. Information on nominating and voting for Ditmars can usually be found on the site for the Nat Con (2006 Conjure in Brisbane). Categories and winners for 2005 can be found here Ditmars 2005.

awha_2005

2006-02-22T19:39:09+11:00

Award for the best flash fiction story, as chosen by the Australian Horror Writers Association: 1st place - Hood, Robert - The River, Black with Night 2nd place - Cavanagh, Steven - Moving Dad 3rd place - Anderton, Joanne - The Feast

azerath

2006-02-15T14:31:50+11:00

Comic Series Published by Phosphorescent Comics Writer: Daniel Lawson Artist: Ryan Wilton ISSN 1449-4086 Go back to the reviews page Read this series Reviewed by Peter Cobcroft, Nov 2005 What first attracted me to the Azerath series when I saw it in my local comicbook store was the anime style of the cover. There are definite influences in the artwork from Japanese animation. Glancing through the issues reminded me of the Slayers anime series – a mixture of fantasy and comedy. Be…

bad_case_of_loving_you

2008-02-13T23:55:39+11:00

by Laney Cairo Torquere Press (2006) ISBN: 1934166685 US5.95 (ebook), US$13.95 (print) Buy this Book Reviewed by Anna Hepworth, Feb 2008 I have to start this review with a disclaimer [1] - this is the first professional porn I've ever read. Thus, I don't know the tropes, the conventions, the Way Things Are Done. This could be a disadvantage, in that I may not address various issues that aficionados would want mentioned, but I'm hoping that it will work in my favour, giving a more bala…

bailey_dale

2005-11-25T00:21:18+11:00

* The Resurrection Man’s Legacy

bailey_siobhan

2006-04-25T16:07:51+11:00

* Blah Blah Blah * My Collection

ball_patrick

2006-03-03T15:04:07+11:00

* The Machine * Reproduction

ballista_2

2007-08-01T15:25:36+11:00

Issue 2 Edited by Paul Neads and Andrew Myers Mucusart Publications (2007) ISSN:1750 6646 UK5.50 Buy a Copy Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Aug 2007 There are eleven stories in this issue of Ballista, in just 50 pages. From this you can tell that most of the stories are quite short. For most of them, this works quite well.

balmer_jason

2005-11-25T00:26:10+11:00

* The Law of Averages

banks_iain

2005-12-04T19:16:27+11:00

* Letter in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Issue 2

banner

2006-05-30T14:52:42+11:00

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barking

2007-07-04T18:08:57+11:00

Tom Holt Orbit (2007) ISBN: 9781841492858 $45 (Hardcover) Buy this Book Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, July 2007 If you were unlucky, in your class at school there would have been a gang of boys. A gang of six or seven kids. Each and every boy was a cool and interesting individual, who did homework (mostly), engaged in intelligent conversations or made bad jokes, or helped you with those heavy books. Together, though, they were different. Together, they operated…

barnes_chris

2006-03-30T17:56:02+11:00

* Big Day * Entwined

barnes_mark

2006-03-31T14:23:33+11:00

* Soul Garden * Say Goodbye Again

barrett_marc

2005-11-25T00:22:47+11:00

* Mother's Little Helper

barrow_jenny

2005-11-26T06:44:20+11:00

* Kali Dal

barrow_stuart

2006-09-08T18:51:27+11:00

* Subeditor, ASIM 15 * Chimera * Editor, Gastronomicon * Kali Dal * Editor, ASIM 20 * Letter From the President (Earth Edition) * Magic Casements II * Plot Device * The Munchausen Papers * Widdershins

barrow_stuart_new

2005-11-25T00:26:52+11:00

* Subeditor, ASIM 15 * Chimera * Editor, Gastronomicon * Kali Dal

basic_black

2006-09-25T13:05:24+11:00

by Terry Dowling Cemetery Dance Publications, Baltimore, MD (2006) ISBN: 1-58767-123-9 $80 or $175 for Lettered Edition Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Leigh Blackmore, Sept 2006 Terry Dowling is a modern fabulist who, as an Australian, has always held the locus, or sense of place in his work as one its central features. As Jonathan Strahan points out in his perceptive introduction to this book, “the winds of Australis blow through each of these haunting tales, adding a scent …

bassett_james_c

2006-03-31T14:39:16+11:00

* Thursday Afternoon Just Past Three

battersby_lee

2006-04-18T17:42:05+11:00

* Review of The Grinding House * Pater Familias * Review of Tales from the Crypto-System by Geoffrey Maloney * Your Mother Likes Monkeys * Eight For Working * Through the Window Merrilee Dances * Interviewed in ASIM 19 * I Can Make You Famous * The Imprisonment of Marianne

battersby_lee_new

2005-11-25T00:24:54+11:00

* Pater Familias * Review of Tales from the Crypto-System by Geoffrey Maloney * Your Mother Likes Monkeys

battersby_lyn

2006-04-18T17:26:52+11:00

* Interview in ASIM 19 * Hush * The Hanging Tree

battlestar_galactica

2007-08-03T09:54:17+11:00

By Jeffrey A Carver Gollancz SF (2007) ISBN: 978-0-575-07965-6 $19.95 Buy this Book Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Aug 2007 This book is a novelisation of the hit US Sci Fi Channel's TV series Battlestar Galactica. Contrary to the front cover which blazons, “Based on the Sci Fi Channel's Hit Original Series”, this series and by extension this novelisation, is a reworking of the earlier television series from the 1970s of the same name. [1] This book spans t…

baxter_zara

2006-03-15T16:55:35+11:00

* Li Kao's Adversity Dumplings * Editor, ASIM 14 * Postcard From Boston

beasley_sally

2005-11-25T00:14:36+11:00

Book Reviews ASIM 15

beatty_greg

2006-04-27T13:34:38+11:00

* Gardening with Arthritis * Is It Wrong * Why Galileo Never Married * Shut Up * Dogs in Space * On the Third Day

bedford_k_a

2006-03-24T17:57:37+11:00

* Orbital Burn * Interview in TiconderogaOnline Issue 2

before_the_storm

2007-06-24T23:27:51+11:00

Sean McMullen Ford Street Publishing (2007) ISBN: 9781876462505 $19.95 Buy this Book Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, June 2007 “Dangerous things, girls with ideas.” Think Terminator 2 meets Playing Beattie Bow. Fox and BC, two teenage soldiers from an alternate future, travel back in time to prevent the bombing of the first Australian Parliament in Melbourne, 1901. Their mission is desperate, and they are on their own... until they meet Emily, Daniel and…

belacich_ivan

2006-04-27T13:45:22+11:00

* Live and Dream

ben_julien

2009-10-11T14:44:08+11:00

Reviews on this Site: * Blood of Elves Novel 1: The Witcher Saga by Andrez Sapkowski

ben_payne

2009-03-05T20:20:27+11:00

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.

ben_payne_snapshot_2007

2007-08-17T21:20:04+11:00

Interviewed by Kathryn Linge Ben Payne is writer, editor, lover, dreamer, and fighter. His editing credits include Potato Monkey and Aurealis Magazine, plus the new Twelfth Planet Press publications Shiny and 2012. His latest story 'Inside' can be read in Issue 11 of Ticonderoga Online and he blogs at:

ben_peek_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T01:20:37+11:00

Interviewed by Kathryn Linge Ben Peek is a Sydney-based writer and his first novel, Black Sheep, A Dystopian Novel has recently been published by Prime Books. His short fiction will soon be appearing in Overland, Fantasy Magazine, Lonestar Stories, the anthology Paper Cities, edited by E. Sedia, and the Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 3, edited by Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt. His blog is

bendle_conor

2005-11-25T00:26:42+11:00

* Yes, Virginia

bennett_mik

2005-11-25T18:25:39+11:00

Eyes of the Hunter Inquisition

bennett_mik_new

2005-11-25T18:25:41+11:00

* Eyes of the Hunter

best_dan

2005-11-25T00:19:17+11:00

* Wolf * Wolf

best_served_cold

2009-09-26T13:23:58+11:00

Review 1 by Nick Evans, Review 2 by Tehani Wessely by Joe Abercrombie Review 1 Gollancz (2009) ISBN: 9780575082465 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Nick Evans, Jul 2009 Set in the same world as his popular First Law trilogy, Joe Abercrombie's latest book, Best Served Cold, is a standalone novel that begins just after the end of The Last Argument of Kings. Set in Styria, Abercrombie's analogue of Renaissance Italy, Best Served Cold follows the story of Monza Murcatto - the Snake o…

bey_matthew

2005-12-01T19:03:35+11:00

* The Monster at Baggage Carousel #3

biancotti_deborah

2006-02-14T14:21:49+11:00

* No 3 Raw Place * Interview in TiconderogaOnline * Summa Seltzer Missive

bill_congreve_snapshot_2007

2007-08-19T17:34:43+11:00

Interviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts Bill Congreve is a small press publisher (Mirrordanse Books: ) and for the last three years has co-edited the Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy series with Michelle Marquardt (and the two of them got married this year!). Bill previously appeared in the 2005 Snapshot:

billy

2009-01-07T12:41:31+11:00

Season 2: Issues 1-6 by Hayden Fryer Siberian Productions (2007 - 2008) $3.50 per issue Buy this Reviewed by Paul Mannering, Jan 2009 As the narrator and namesake of the comic series says: this is a sequel. So, having not read the first series I expected to have some questions that could only be answered if I had read the earlier instalments. Fortunately this wasn't a problem, as the characters seemed relatively self-explanatory. Unfortunately, this was the best thing about the f…

bio

2005-11-25T00:16:06+11:00

A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space.

bird_carmel

2006-03-01T17:43:30+11:00

* Everything is Ova, Doctor God * The Isolation of the Deciding Factor

birmingham_john

2005-11-25T00:22:01+11:00

* He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

bishop_kirsten

2005-11-25T00:27:23+11:00

* Letter to the Editor

black_ice

2008-02-21T15:44:37+11:00

by Lucy Sussex Hodder (1997) ISBN: 9780733604560 US$32.82 Buy this Book Reviewed by Phillip Berrie, Jan 2008 With a name like Black Ice and a release date of 1997 I immediately associated this book with the cyberpunk genre and thought of comparing it with William Gibson's Neuromancer for this review. Certainly the short promotional paragraph on the back cover tended to support this idea and I was interested in seeing what an Australian writer could contribute to this sub-genre. Howe…

black_issue_1

2009-02-05T19:27:46+11:00

Issue 1 edited by Angela Challis Brimstone Press (2008) ISSN: 1835-9248 $7.95 Buy this issue Reviewed by Gene Melzack, Feb 2009 When I first heard the name Black Magazine I thought it was a magazine aimed at an ethnic minority readership, much like America's Ebony Magazine. When you see the cover design of Black Magazine, however, it becomes clear that this is not the case at all. Black Magazine is dedicated to “Australian Dark Culture” - whatever that is. The picture of Heath …

black_juice

2008-04-15T14:04:22+11:00

by Margo Lanagan Allen & Unwin (2006) ISBN: 9781741750911 $17.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, Apr 2008 I come to this collection with certain prior knowledge of Margo Lanagan and her successes, but no actual first-hand experience. And the prior knowledge is weighty, including a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (for “Singing My Sister Down”)*. From that respect, I am pleased to say that I don't think there are…

black_magazine

2009-02-05T19:39:31+11:00

Australia's dark culture and entertainment magazine. Visit Black Magazine * Black Magazine Issue 1

black_man

2008-05-13T14:18:57+11:00

by Richard Morgan Gollancz (2007) ISBN: 9780575077676 $32.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Simon Petrie, May 2008 Carl Marsalis is a twist, an unluck, a variant thirteen. Which is by way of saying that he's a ruthlessly trained genetically enhanced combat specialist, in a future-Earth society that has no need for military action. The thirteens are the most despised, most feared of several now-quenched lines in human (or post-human?) genetic tweaking. Carl is an object of open hatr…

black_sheep

2007-10-03T11:44:42+11:00

by Ben Peek Prime Books (2007) ISBN: 0-8095-6263-4 US$14.95 Buy this Book Back to Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Aug 2007 Black Sheep is author Ben Peek’s first full-length work, following on from his novella-length 26 Lies, One Truth, published earlier this year. Black Sheep, written before the shorter work but published later, deals with some of the same themes, notably racial conflict and questions of identity and individuality. It’s a more traditional work in form and nar…

black_ships

2009-07-11T15:30:24+11:00

by Jo Graham Orbit (2008) ISBN: 9781841496993 $22.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Mitenae, Jul 2009 Gull, Pythia of the Lady of the Dead in Pylos, has had visions of black ships since she was a young child. The day they arrive brings unexpected results, sending Gull on a voyage with her Mother’s people, the Wilusa, in a search for a place they can finally call home. Black Ships by Jo Graham is a Locus Award nominated debut novel based on Virgil’s The Aeneid. This book is not as…

blackford_russell

2006-03-01T17:48:14+11:00

* The Sword of God

blackwater_days

2005-11-25T00:16:13+11:00

by Terry Dowling A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

bleek_gordon_clive

2005-12-05T18:46:05+11:00

* Feature Article, Antipodean SF Issue 85

blood_music

2008-08-16T13:06:56+11:00

by Greg Bear Gollancz (2007) ISBN 978-0-575-08109-3 $22.95 Buy this Book Sydicated from Andromeda Spaceways, Reviewed by Simon Petrie, January 2008 Gollancz's Future Classics series, of which Blood Music is one volume, is (for now) a set of eight books presented as modern seminal works in speculative fiction. The branding as 'future classics', whether justified or not, is at the least an attractive play on words, and invites comparison with acknowledged science-fiction masterwork…

blood_noir

2008-09-09T14:04:21+11:00

by Laurell K. Hamilton Orbit (2008) ISBN: 9781841496924 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely, Sep 2008 These days, reading Laurell K. Hamilton is somewhat akin to watching soft porn. There’s a kind of storyline that’s really only there as an excuse for sexual encounters. The Anita Blake series didn’t start out this way. In the beginning, Hamilton gave us a fascinating world peopled with edgy, deep characters undertaking unusual supernatural jobs and solving paran…

blood_of_dreams

2009-06-28T15:28:44+11:00

by Susan Parisi Penguin (2008) ISBN: 9780143007647 $24.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jun 2009 Blood of Dreams was a disappointing novel. A trite and meandering plot, and characters that are never fully realised combine to create a very unsatisfying reading experience. In eighteenth century Venice Laudomia chafes under the guardianship of her brothers. Neither they nor her sisters-in-law want to hear anything about her gift of foresight. They want her to be an ex…

blood_ties

2009-02-05T19:02:36+11:00

Book 1: Blood Ties Review by Lorraine Cormack Book 2: Deep Water Review 1 by Tehani Wessely, Review 2 by Lorraine Cormack by Pamela Freeman Blood Ties Hachette Livre Australia (2007) ISBN: 978-0-7336-2211-3 $24.95 Buy this book Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Sep 2007

blue_silence

2007-03-11T17:01:19+11:00

Michelle Marquardt Bantam(2002) ISBN: 1 86325 251 7 $22.95 Buy this Book Back to Reviews page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, March 2007 Blue Silence is a confident and assured science fiction novel, which I enjoyed a great deal. The novel focuses on Senator Maya Russini, and is told from her point of view. Maya is a strong character; I realised at the end of the novel that Marquardt had given little indication of Maya’s age or appearance, and not a great deal of information about …

bolt_david

2005-11-25T00:22:33+11:00

* Artwork in Dark Animus Issue 7

book_of_shadows

2007-04-26T18:10:47+11:00

edited by Angela Challis Brimstone Press (2006) ISBN:0-9802817-1-7 $18.95 Buy this anthology Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Tim Kroenert, March 2007 Lovers of dark flash fiction (this reviewer included) may rejoice: this anthology from Brimstone Press, which collects stories previously published in the very fine Australian flash fiction journal Shadowed Realms, is one hell of a delightfully dark read.

borderlands

2007-04-15T19:57:11+11:00

Borderlands is a small press magazine publishing quality Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror stories, and non-fiction that addresses issues relevant to speculative fiction, or futurist topics. Borderlands Publications, the publisher of the magazine, is based in Perth, Western Australia, and is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the promoting the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres in Australian literature. written by Stephen Dedman Visit Borderlands Go back to reviews…

borderlands_issue_4

2006-02-23T15:10:29+11:00

Issue 4 Edited by Stephen Dedman Borderlands Press (2004) ISSN: 1-4482-24-X $10 Order this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Jan 2006 Borderlands has, over the last couple of years, become one of the most consistent of the local publications. It’s rare to find a bad story within its covers. It has, perhaps, not yet unearthed that rare gem, the unforgettable story. That’s not a criticism. Such stories are hard to come by. But it can be hoped that Borderlands …

borderlands_issue_6

2007-03-11T22:19:16+11:00

Issue 6 Edited by Stephen Dedman Borderlands Press (2006) Fiction Editor - Stephen Dedman Managing Editor - Simon Oxwell Non-fiction Editor - David Cake ISSN: 1-4482-24-X $10 Order this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Apr 2006 The new Borderlands is a good, chewy read - I got through it in only two or three sittings during a two day period, and found it most entertaining.

borderlands_issue_7

2006-10-09T17:11:54+11:00

Issue 7 Edited by Stephen Dedman Borderlands Press (2006) Fiction Editor - Stephen Dedman Managing Editor - Simon Oxwell Non-fiction Editor - David Cake ISSN: 1-4482-24-X $10 Order this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Ben Payne, Oct 2006 I’ve commented in previous reviews that Borderlands is one of the more consistent of the local magazines, but that it has perhaps never hit the heights of some others. I’m pleased to report that Issue 7 of the mag both raises th…

borderlands_issue_8

2007-04-15T20:08:13+11:00

Issue 8 Edited by Stephen Dedman Borderlands Press (2006) Fiction Editor - Stephen Dedman Managing Editor - Simon Oxwell Non-fiction Editor - David Cake ISSN: 1-4482-24-X $10 Order this issue Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Paul Mannering, Apr 2007 If Borderlands 8 could be said to have a theme, I would say it was Time. Each of these stories, from some damn fine writers, deals with the passage and effects of time. Even the article by Grant Watson on the behind the scenes…

borderlands_profile

2005-11-25T00:16:45+11:00

A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

borell_marcia

2005-11-25T00:22:35+11:00

* Artwork in Dark Animus Issue 7

borneman_john

2006-03-15T17:19:26+11:00

* The Brass Man * Dr Susan Lee Research Notes * A Melody of Brass

boston_bruce

2006-02-21T19:15:55+11:00

* Beware the Werecanary * For Spacers Snarled in the Hair of Comets

bousaleh_thoraiya

2006-04-24T12:45:54+11:00

* Review of Red Soul, Green Soul by Donna Maree Hanson

bramlett_terry

2005-11-25T00:14:19+11:00

Buzz

brasyl

2008-01-28T23:26:43+11:00

by Ian McDonald Gollancz (2007) ISBN 978-0-575-08050-8 $32.95 Buy this book Back to Reviews Page Syndicated from Andromeda Spaceways Reviewed by Simon Petrie, Sept 2007 I shouldn't (and shan't) judge the book by it, but I feel at least compelled to comment on it. Brasyl's cover is a cunning exercise in marketing: a silvered iridescent front cover enclosing a partially-gaudy, partially industrial-drab illustration, jungle fauna and slums. This illustration is glimpsed through the boo…

breakaway

2005-11-25T00:21:39+11:00

by Joel Shepherd A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

breathe

2007-09-10T16:39:56+11:00

by Penni Russon Random House Australia (2005) ISBN: 1 74166 098 X Price: $17.95 Purchase: www.randomhouse.com.au Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, December 2006 This is a genuinely lovely novel. The writing style is elegant and evocative; it has a sort of dreamy remoteness that casts a patina of other-worldliness over the novel. At the same time, it is strongly rooted in reality; if the magical elements had been abstracted from this novel, it would still have been a …

bren_macdibble_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:17:05+11:00

Interviewed by Alisa Krasnostein Bren MacDibble, the Kiwistralian from Melbourne, has four children's books, a non-fic book, and a list of children's and SF magazine publications longer than a Post Office queue. She's a member of SuperNOVA writers' group and a Clarion survivor.

brendan_duffy_snapshot_2007

2007-08-22T21:39:32+11:00

Interviewed by Ben Payne Brendan Duffy has been nominated for, and won, numerous awards for his fiction, and has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer. 1. It's been a couple of years since Louder Echo, in particular, took Australia and the world by storm, appearing in David Hartwell and Kathryn Kramer's Years Best. Since then you've picked up another Aurealis Award for Come to Daddy, and a Ditmar nom for World's Wackiest Upper Atmosphere Re-Entry Disa…

brennan_gerard

2006-03-31T14:40:58+11:00

* A French Version of Me

brennan_marie

2006-03-30T17:58:10+11:00

* Shadow's Bride

brett_mcbean_snapshot_2007

2007-08-19T13:54:00+11:00

Interviewed by Rosie Clarke Melbourne horror writer Brett McBean is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association. His published work includes the novels The Mother and The Last Motel, the novelettes The Familiar Stranger and A Question of Belief, and short stories published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His website is .

brewster_regina

2005-11-25T00:22:36+11:00

* Artwork in Dark Animus Issue 7

brite_poppy_z

2006-02-22T19:48:08+11:00

* Nothing Of Him Doth Fade, pt 1

broderick_damien

2006-03-01T17:42:01+11:00

* Matilda at the Speed of Light, editor * Thy Sting * Fiction Editor, Cosmos Magazine * Player in the Game of Worlds

brokking_arnout

2005-12-05T18:41:21+11:00

* Peter and Mrs Woolfe * Better than the Catch

brooks_karen

2005-11-25T00:24:46+11:00

* Rifts through Quentaris

brown_simon

2005-11-25T18:25:43+11:00

* Water Babies * Winter by Simon Brown

brown_simon_new

2005-11-25T00:24:33+11:00

* Water Babies * Winter by Simon Brown

bruckard_mark

2006-02-28T14:41:35+11:00

* The Munchausen Papers

brylow_julie

2006-02-24T18:44:29+11:00

* My Last Thought

bryn_sparks

2006-02-14T15:33:03+11:00

Bryn Sparks lives in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, with his wife Christine and their three daughters. He owns no sheep. Bryn's short fiction has appeared in publications such as Agog! Smashing Stories, Aoife's Kiss, Apex Digest of Horror and Science Fiction, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and the forthcoming Robots and Time anthology from Altair Press. He writes a regular column about speculative fiction comics at Apex online and maintains a fuggin excellent blog Ph3…

buchhorn_sharon

2006-02-24T17:46:37+11:00

* Review of Russell Kirkpatrick: In the Earth Abides the Flame * Interviews Russell Kirkpatrick

burger_edward

2006-03-01T17:54:13+11:00

* A Gorilla Becomes a Jeep

burgess_aaron

2005-11-25T00:20:50+11:00

* Crave...

burns_r_michael

2006-03-15T17:13:34+11:00

* The Big Cheat

burrage_nathan

2006-04-27T13:43:26+11:00

* The Iron Age * Colour Blind * Adulterated * Blurring * The Sidpa Bardo

burrage_nathan_new

2005-11-25T00:26:20+11:00

* The Iron Age * Colour Blind

bursztynski_sue

2005-12-05T17:32:07+11:00

* The Sword from the Lake

bushmakin_dasha

2005-11-25T00:19:56+11:00

* Human Temperament

byng_geoff

2005-11-25T00:26:29+11:00

* References(from The Book that was Written in the Ink of the Cyclamen)

c0ck

2008-04-05T20:12:14+11:00

Adventures in Masculinity edited by Andrew Macrae and Keith Stevenson coeur de lion press (2006) ISBN: 0-9581390-1-6 $17.50 Buy a copy Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Kathryn Linge, July 2007 When I was first presented with c0ck in late 2006, I was very pleasantly surprised. Smaller than your average, black and shiny, the c0ck volume is very tactile and, frankly, I can't help but fondle it. It's so sweet! I believe my first words upon seeing it were Oh it's much smaller than I expe…

cain_james

2005-11-25T00:22:38+11:00

* Editor, Dark Animus Issue 7

campbell_eddie

2005-11-25T00:19:12+11:00

* The Playwright

campbell_paul

2006-02-24T18:46:05+11:00

* Death of a Raindrop

campisi_stephanie

2006-03-30T18:21:41+11:00

* Gloves * Organ Donor

canavan_trudi

2006-03-01T18:44:02+11:00

* Interview in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine * A Room for Improvement

canberra_speculative_fiction_guild_csfg

2005-11-25T18:26:42+11:00

Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild Gastronomicon The Grinding House

canterbury_2100

2009-01-03T18:15:05+11:00

Review 1 by Alexandra Pierce, Review 2 by Tansy Rayner Roberts edited by Dirk Flinthart Review 1 Agog! Press (2008) ISBN: 9780809573288 $21.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Nov 2008 As a fan of the original Canterbury Tales, I was fascinated to hear that this project was being undertaken. The ‘let’s tell stories to pass the time’ idea has been used before as the basis of novels, and probably anthologies, but I’ve not heard of another that both moves the con…

carlon_lee

2006-03-03T15:05:31+11:00

* Skin Deep * Farmboy Syndrome * Flash's New Ride

carlon_lee_new

2005-11-25T00:26:11+11:00

* Skin Deep * Farmboy Syndrome

carmody_isobelle

2006-03-01T18:46:40+11:00

* The Cat Dreamer * Angel Fever * The Phoenix

carnies

2009-01-04T01:32:47+11:00

Review 1 by Dirk Flinthart, Review 2 by Tansy Rayner Roberts by Martin Livings Review 1 Lothian (2006) ISBN: 0734409699 US$19.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Dirk Flinthart, Jun 2006 Two things I’d like to say upfront. First, as a reader and fan of Martin Livings’ short fiction, I don’t think we’re seeing the best of him with this book. Second: if my own first novel comes off as effectively as this, I’ll be happy.

carroll_david

2006-02-14T14:22:35+11:00

* Footprint * The Grail

carson_adam

2005-12-03T19:39:41+11:00

* Playing God

carson_brendan_d

2007-08-06T23:51:27+11:00

* Occam’s Razing * Tidemark * Occam's Razing * If Silence is a Lie

carter_thomas

2005-11-25T00:20:42+11:00

* Rock Zombie

caselberg_jay

2006-04-19T15:55:36+11:00

* Tasting Time * The Subtle Hand of God

cassandra_palmer_series

2009-07-22T21:20:37+11:00

Book 1: Touch the Dark Book 2: Claimed by Shadow Book 3: Embrace the Night Book 4: Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance Curse the Dawn Penguin (2009) ISBN: 9780451412706 $14.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jul 2009 Curse the Dawn is, I believe, the fourth Cassie Palmer novel. It was the first I’d read, and I enjoyed it so much I was looking out for the first book in the series before I’d finished reading this one. This is a light and frothy novel, but it’s a lot …

cassell_elaine

2006-04-25T16:16:09+11:00

* I Am A Winner

cat_sparks_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T01:24:07+11:00

Interviewed by Alisa Krasnostein Cat Sparks lives on the sunny south coast of New South Wales where she works as a graphic designer and runs Agog! Press with her partner, author Robert Hood. In 2004 she was a graduate of the inaugural Clarion South Writers' Workshop and an L Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future prizewinner. Since 2000 she has published forty+ stories and received eight Australian SF awards. She recently became a member of SFWA.

cathy_buburuz

2008-04-07T16:37:04+11:00

Canadian horror writer and editor, Cathy Buburuz resides on the Saskatchewan prairie where she edits Champagne Shivers magazine (published annually in print), Expressions (a monthly online market newsletter for writers and artists), and Potter's Field, an annual print anthology of tall tales about boneyards. Cathy's stories have appeared in many fine magazines in recent years including Tales of the Talisman, Sounds Of The Night, Dark Wisdom, City Slab, Hungur, Midnight Street, and Space and Tim…

cathy_s_key

2008-12-03T15:11:17+11:00

Book 1: Cathy's Book Book 2: Cathy's Key by Sean Stewart & Jordan Weisman, illustrated by Cathy Brigg Bloomsbury Children's (2008) ISBN: 9780747594819 $27.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Dec 2008 I first opened this novel with considerable apprehension. It comes with a collection of bits and pieces (letters, trinkets, drawings, origami) which relate to the story, and proudly announces that all phone numbers and websites in the novel are real – you can call th…

cavanagh_steven

2006-03-30T18:20:51+11:00

* Elf Esteem * Moving Dad, 2nd place AWHA Award 2005 * On the Ocean Wave

chains

2009-04-23T17:39:33+11:00

by Laurie Halse Anderson Bloomsbury (2008) ISBN: 9780747598657 $16.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Apr 2009 This is the story of Isabel, a slave in New York City during the American War of Independence. As the novel opens, Isabel and her younger sister Ruth are sold to particularly cruel owners, who take them to New York. It isn't the New York of today, of course; it's smaller, dirtier, and riven by the politics of those who want independence and those who want to re…

challis_angela

2006-02-14T15:56:26+11:00

* Editor, Shadow Box * Editor, Shadowed Realms Issue 3

champions

2005-11-29T22:03:06+11:00

Links for Champions (Super)Hero Resources Aberrant (& Trinity) by White Wolf Authority RPG & Resource Book by Guardians of Order Blood of Heroes by Blood of Heroes by Brave New World by Pinnacle Games/Alderac Entertainment Group Cartoon Action Hour RPG by Z-Man Games, Inc.

chan_kylie

2005-11-25T00:19:57+11:00

* Road Kill

chan_melissa

2006-01-25T13:47:19+11:00

* Forgetting Archanida

char_sandy

2005-11-25T00:15:38+11:00

Phone Call

character_sketches_2007

2007-03-04T16:26:53+11:00

Gestalt Publishing (2007) 52 pages, standard comic size, B&W ISBN 0-9775628-0-8 US$7.95 A$15.95 Buy This Back to Reviews page Reviewed by David Carroll, March 2007 Character Sketches is the first release from Gestalt Publishing, a newcomer on the Australian scene with obvious ambition. As such, this may be taken as a taste of what may be coming, as well as enjoyed in its own right.

checkmate_wordsworth

2007-08-10T11:55:36+11:00

by Douglas Holgate Sure Shot Presents (2007) US$6.50 Buy this Comic Back to reviews page Reviewed by Paul Mannering, August 2007 Published by Mark Selan under the Sure Shot Presents logo this two story collection in one A5 sized volume is a treat.

cheetah_chris

2005-12-05T18:50:16+11:00

* Wait for Me

children_category

2005-11-27T20:14:09+11:00

Short Stories TITLE AUTHOR ANTHOLOGY/MAGAZINESpace Gypsie Alexander GoldieThe School Magazine August 2005 Vol 90 No 7BertieBlackford Jenny The School Magazine August 2005 Vol 90 No 7First SightingMasterton Jutta sf-envisions.comLucky JackPryor MichaelThe School Magazine August 2005 Vol 90 No 7 Back to Aurealis 2005

children_s_fiction

2009-01-04T19:36:33+11:00

[Array] The Great Gherkin Conservation Quest by Dan Ashlin :au: [Array]The Legend of Little Fur by Isobelle Carmody :au: [Array]Shimmer by Kathryn Dean :au: [Array]Dragon Gold by Kate Forsyth :au: [Array]My Auntie Chook The Vampire Chicken by Jackie French :au: [Array]Erasmus James and the Galactic Zapp Machine by D C Green :au: [Array]Walter Who Wants to be a Werewolf by Richard Harland :au: [Array]Pearlie and Jasper and Pearlie and the Christmas Angel by Wendy Harmer :au: [Array] Syki…

chris_lawson_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T01:11:22+11:00

Interviewed by Kathryn Linge Chris Lawson is a doctor and writer living in Queensland. His short fiction has been published in Asimov's Science Fiction, Event Horizon, Dreaming Down-Under, Gathering the Bones, Agog! and Eidolon, as well as several Year's Best anthologies. He founded the group blog Talking Squid () in 2006 and his website can be found at:

christ_eric

2006-03-30T18:24:24+11:00

* The Ghost

chrome

2007-04-29T23:42:40+11:00

by SK Cooper Altair Australia Books (2006) ISBN: 0975 208 72 $19.95 Buy this Book Return to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, April 2007 I opened this novel with high hopes, as I couldn’t remember having read a good Australian cyberpunk novel before. Unfortunately, this proved not to be that good novel; I struggled to get into it, and then struggled even more to finish it. I doubt that I would have finished it if I were not reviewing it.

chrywenstrom_lily

2006-04-24T12:18:20+11:00

* Skeleton Tea * The Grief Doll * Ghosts of 1930 * Editor, Fables and Reflections Issue 7

church_suzanne

2006-03-31T14:12:05+11:00

* Driving the Past Home * Tatoo Ink

claire_mckenna_2007

2007-09-09T15:36:17+11:00

Interviewed by Alisa Krasnostein Claire McKenna is a Melbourne-based science fiction writer and fan, and was fortunate to be part of the first ever Clarion South way, way back in 2004. Her current projects are all about exploiting new breakthroughs in media, and her first foray was the Liminal, a romantic tragedy about a man and a squid girl!

clark_douglas_w

2005-11-29T14:50:50+11:00

* Dungslinger

clark_stephen

2006-03-31T14:18:42+11:00

* The Cellar Cleaners

clemens_mark

2006-02-24T17:30:26+11:00

* Blood Donor

code

2007-06-26T14:58:52+11:00

In order to authorise that you wish to become a user of the ASif! forum, please enter the word Taklofane into that field. Apologies to new users, but this is a measure to attempt to cut down on the number of spambots that are attempting to infiltrate the forum.

code_noir

2005-11-25T00:21:54+11:00

by Marianne De Pierre A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

cold_iron

2007-08-21T23:56:22+11:00

Sophie Masson Hodder SF/Fantasy (1998) ISBN: 0- 7336 – 0583 – 4 Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, August 2007 This is one of Masson’s earlier novels, but it displays a number of characteristics that have since become her hallmarks: the use of traditional fairy stories or legends, lively characters, and settings that seem once removed from reality.

collected_works

2008-04-22T17:51:04+11:00

Through Soft Air by Lee Battersby Troy by Simon Brown The Ladder at the Bottom of the World by Terry Dartnall Never Seen By Waking Eyes by Stephen Dedman Basic Black by Terry Dowling Antique Futures by Terry Dowling Immaterial by Robert Hood 13 - A Collection of Ghost Stories by Rick Kennett Written in Blood by Chris Lawson Black Juice by Margo Lanagan The Traveling Tide by Rosaleen Love A Tour Guide in Utopia by Lucy Sussex The Grinding House by Kaaron Warren Magic Dirt by Sean Wi…

collins_paul

2005-11-25T18:25:53+11:00

* Princess of Shadows * Dragonlords of Quentaris * Swords of Quentaris * Slaves of Quentaris

comics_reviews

2009-05-16T13:05:12+11:00

Comics * The Arrival by Shaun Tan * Azerath * Billy: Demon Slayer * Character Sketches 2007: Trauma and Joy * Checkmate Wordsworth and Spaghetti Western: Chupacabra Wears Purple Breeches * The Crumpleton Experiments * Dark Wraith of Shannara * Deevee Flange * Dreams of Tomorrow * The Dreaming * He Died with a Felafel in His Hand * The List * Nana Shower, Dirty Little Creep, Nosebled, Sensitive Creatures, Birthday Bitch * Pirates * Something Wicked * Sporadic 5 …

command_decision

2007-05-13T17:38:07+11:00

Vatta’s War Book 4 by Elizabeth Moon Orbit (2007) ISBN: 978 1 84149 379 4 $19.95 Buy this Book Return to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, May 2007 Elizabeth Moon is one of a small number of writers capable of producing excellent science fiction with a strong military bent, while still developing characters the reader cares about and a plot that sweeps you up. This novel is the fourth of a series, and clearly not the last. It is the only one I’ve read from this seri…

conaty_francis_j

2005-12-03T18:14:46+11:00

* Submersive Alien

confessions_of_a_pod_person

2009-06-27T13:53:57+11:00

by Chuck McKenzie MirrorDanse Books (2005) ISBN: 0975785214 $18.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, June 2009 Confessions of a Pod Person is a collection of short stories, the majority of which have been previously published in a period spanning 2002 to 2005. Given the wide variety of publications in which they appeared, if you read much Australian speculative fiction, you’ve probably come across at least one of these stories before. The ideas behind most of these s…

conley_ralan

2005-11-25T00:25:00+11:00

* Blossoming Under Sable Skies

connolly_michael

2005-11-25T00:20:56+11:00

* Rogues of the Cave

contact_details

2005-11-27T20:28:56+11:00

Executive Editor - Alisa Krasnostein Review Wrangler - Kathryn Linge Publicity Manager - Gillian Polack Web Support - Peter curufea Cobcroft, David Cake ASif! Recommended Reading List Editors - Bryn Sparks, Ben Payne Please contact the Executive Editor, Alisa Krasnostein with any queries or corrections regarding the content of this website. Anything omitted on this site is only through lack of awareness.

contact_us

2008-11-15T22:54:23+11:00

Executive Editor - Alisa Krasnostein Web Support - Peter curufea Cobcroft Author Index Editor - Nigel Stones Executive Editor Please contact the Executive Editor, Alisa Krasnostein, with any queries or corrections regarding the content of this website. Anything omitted on this site is only through lack of awareness.

conversational_reviews

2009-01-11T14:10:34+11:00

This series of reviews is conducted by email across the group of reviewers participating and pieced together as a conversation. [Array]The Twilight Series

cook_ben

2006-03-15T16:59:09+11:00

* Peeking Down the Trousers of Time * Space Aliens Brought Back Elvis * Hitler's Ghost Possessed My Cat * Hitler's Ghost Possessed My Cat * Dragonslaying for Dummies

cook_robert_guy

2006-01-27T17:47:55+11:00

* Tractatus Illogico-Philosophicus (A.)

cooper_j_l

2005-11-25T00:23:39+11:00

* Like Father Like Son

coraline

2009-07-23T19:57:32+11:00

by Neil Gaiman Bloomsbury (2009) ISBN: 9780747597308 $15.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jul 2009 Coraline is another of Neil Gaiman's deceptively simple fables. It's the story of Coraline, a young girl exploring her new home before school starts again. Coraline is very curious, and not very good at doing what she's told. So it's no great surprise when she opens a door she shouldn't, and finds her way into another world and a mirror of her own home. But it isn't a…

cory_daniells_snapshot_2007

2007-08-17T20:51:51+11:00

Interviewed by Kathryn Linge Rowena Cory Daniells has been involved in speculative fiction since 1976, working in the fields of publishing, illustration and both adult and children's fiction. Her fantasy trilogy 'The Last T'En' sold internationally, while her latest book 'The Evil Overlord' will be out in January 2008. Her website is

cosmos

2007-03-28T13:57:36+11:00

October 2006 “Echoes” Liz Martin Cosmos Issue 11 This short story, though shattered in its feel - much like learning quantum physics, didn't have the impact I wanted. The ending was a little predictable but I did enjoy the final universe better than the previous ones. Liz Martin does a good job writing interesting characters, but I didn't personally like the subject matter. The story wasn't a waste of time but still I feel it could have been more. - Matt Skinner

cosmos_issue_6

2006-02-23T15:47:04+11:00

A Magazine of Ideas, Science, Society and the Future Issue 6 Edited by Wilson da Silva Luna Media (Dec/Jan 2006) ISSN: 1-8325-22-X $8.95 Buy this copy Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Jan 2006

cosmos_issue_8

2007-04-13T18:31:47+11:00

A Magazine of Ideas, Science, Society and the Future Issue 8 Edited by Wilson da Silva Luna Media (2006) ISSN: 1-8325-22-X $8.95 Buy this copy Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Alisa Krasnostein, Apr 2007 It's no secret that COSMOS is my favourite magazine at the moment and Issue 8 meets all my expectations yet again. I tend to be behind on these, still mulling over the previous issue when the next one comes out. And so, as I sat down to I…

coulter_celia

2005-11-25T00:22:39+11:00

* Madonna and Child

crabtree_deborah

2006-03-31T14:22:26+11:00

* There is a Light

craig_john

2006-03-03T15:16:35+11:00

* X-Rated * The Astronaut * A Telephone Rings

crash_deluxe

2005-11-25T00:21:57+11:00

by Marianne De Pierre A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

crashe_deluxe

2005-11-25T00:21:56+11:00

by Joel Shepherd A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

crew_gary

2005-12-08T13:33:43+11:00

* The Plague of Quentaris

crime_time

2009-10-27T19:45:23+11:00

by Sue Bursztynski Ford St Publishing (2009) ISBN: 9781876462765 $16.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Sally Morgan, Oct 2009 This collection of true Australian crime stories for young people brings together incidents from the 1600’s to today. Interspersed amongst the stories are interesting, often little-known facts about bad guys (and girls) from across the country. The stories are generally short and to-the-point with enough gory detail but not too gruesome. Being some decades a…

croft_tehani

2006-02-21T19:05:48+11:00

* Interview of Dave Luckett * Interview of Tansy Rayner Roberts

crook_edgar

2005-11-25T00:14:04+11:00

Meeting Myself

crossing_the_line

2009-01-08T15:51:02+11:00

by Dianne Bates Ford St Publishing (2008) ISBN: 9781876462703 $16.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Jan 2009 I was expecting this book to be an urban fantasy, or something of a dark sci-fi. The blurb asks “how come [Sophie] ends up in a psych ward? And aren’t therapists supposed to help?” – plus, it was sent to AS if! as a review copy, so I was expecting some weird stuff to be going down. There was indeed some weird stuff, but not what I was expecting. As…

crossover

2005-11-25T00:21:38+11:00

by Joel Shepherd A reviewer is working on this item - watch this space. Go back to reviews page.

crossroads

2007-04-22T20:55:48+11:00

edited by Benjamin Szumskyj Lulu (2007) ISBN: US$9.99 Buy This Book Back to Reviews Page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Apr 2007 It could be argued that not all of the stories in this collection are speculative fiction, but I would beg to differ. All of these stories look at the involvement of God or Satan in the world, in different contexts, and whether you are religious or an atheist (note to reader: reviewer is Christian) I think we can agree that examining people’s reactions to t…

cummings_shane_jiraiya

2006-03-30T17:26:46+11:00

* Editor, Shadow Box * The Snake of Ragnar Rock Canyon * Countdown Macabre * Bump in the Night * Hear No Evil * Cruel Summer Series - (Sand), (Sun), (Sky), (Surf), (Shadow)

cupitt_cathy

2006-01-06T18:01:56+11:00

* Solid Rock

curran_tim

2005-11-25T00:22:40+11:00

* The Snake Man

curufea

2008-01-28T15:43:07+11:00

Peter Cobcroft is in his thirties, looks ten years younger and is jaded enough for a sixty year old. 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. He finds this troubling and secretly hopes the rest of the world will get their act together soon. You can find various opinio…

cusack_louise

2006-02-24T17:32:50+11:00

* Interview in Visions 25

cybele_s_secret

2008-03-17T19:02:27+11:00

by Juliet Marillier Pan Macmillan (2007) ISBN: 9780330423540 $16.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Mar 2008 Cybele's Secret is a sequel of sorts to Wildwood Dancing. I say 'of sorts', because although it is set in the same world with some of the same characters, this story follows Paula, a younger sister of Jena, who narrated the first story. I admit that this threw me for a page or two, because I was a big fan of Jena, and wanted more of her story - despite the fact…

d_aleo_nina

2006-02-24T17:42:30+11:00

* Only the Good * Narcissus

d_m_cornish_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:45:21+11:00

Interviewed by Alexandra Pierce DM Cornish is the author and illustrator of Monster Blood Tattoo, and can be found online here. Q1: You've been shortlisted, with Monster Blood Tattoo, for the Children's Book Council of Australia awards - congratulations! And for your first published work, too... tell us about it: how did you find out, how did you feel, what does it mean to you to be shortlisted?

daikaiju

2007-09-08T11:39:25+11:00

Edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen Agog! Press (2005) ISBN: 0-958056-74-9 $32.95 Buy this anthology Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Nov 2005 I suspect that when 2005 grinds to a close, Daikaiju is one of the books that will most stand out amongst the other tomes released within the Australian specfic community. I really hope it gets a far wider audience than small press junkies and congoers in Australia, though, because it’s good. Really good. Not j…

daikaiju_2

2007-09-10T16:17:34+11:00

Edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen Agog! Press (2007) ISBN: 9780809572311 $ Buy this anthology Go back to the reviews page Reviewed by Adam Bales, Sep 2007 Giant monsters. To say it in such a simplistic fashion, it sounds like an overused theme. However, Daikaiju 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters, edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen and released by Cat Sparks's Agog Press, refuses to settle down into simplistic monster stories. Instead it shows us haunting tales that sometimes lead …

damien_broderick_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:40:18+11:00

Interviewed by Alisa Krasnostein Damien Broderick lives in Texas these days, where the weather is like summer in Old North Australia--hot and often sticky. Instead of blowies, mozzies. He's preparing his 40th book. Q1. I really enjoy the fiction you publish in COSMOS.

damn_index

2005-11-29T14:18:25+11:00

Created by Kathryn Linge I’ve always wanted my own dimensionless number. In fact, creating one is on my list of 100 things to do before I die. Therefore, I was amazed when one suddenly popped into my head – especially when it might actually be useful! The DAMN (Definitely and Maybe Not) Index is my humble attempt to quantify the relative worth of one issue of any given publication over another. I can hear the horrified gasps even as I write this - surely it’s impossible to mathematic…

daniells_cory

2005-11-29T18:02:49+11:00

* Suffer the Little Children

dark_alchemy

2008-01-26T16:08:12+11:00

edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Bloomsbury (2007) ISBN: 9780747590569 $24.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, January 2008 Anthologies, in my experience, are fraught experiences. Sometimes the theme just works, and completely different stories sit quite comfortably together. Sometimes the theme feels forced, and it’s almost like a bunch of authors thought “there’s a new anthology being put together... if I tweak this story like that, it will probably work.�…

dark_animus

2006-02-15T14:35:17+11:00

Dark Animus is a gritty magazine that contains short stories, poetry and artwork in a style that resounds with the good old pulp horror tales of long ago. While the entries can be the equivalent of confronting a loaded double-barrel shotgun, literary content is never sacrified for frights or cheap thrills. Content is not confined to the horror genre, either, but the stories will make you think and often cause you fright. One thing that stands out about Dark Animus is the originality that seems t…

dark_animus_issue_7

2006-03-28T18:48:11+11:00

Issue 7 Edited by James R. Cain Dark Animus (2005) ISBN: 1-4473-74-7 $7.70 Buy this magazine Go back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Marty Young, Nov 2005 Dark Animus Issue 7 is one hell of a ride. The cover art by Hervé Scott Flament shows a mutant human baby in a specimen jar, with a freak show and a ferris wheel in the background, and this is a perfect depiction of what we can expect to encounter inside; this is a sideshow, a carnival of lost souls. And be warned, there are no safe…

dark_curse

2009-06-28T15:49:13+11:00

by Christine Feehan Piatkus (2008) ISBN: 9780749908836 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jun 2009 Dark Curse is tagged as a “paranormal romance”, but at its heart is a concept so misogynist that I found it drained all the so-called romance from the novel for me and left me not so much unmoved, as irritated. Lara Calladine escaped a childhood trapped in an ice cave, her blood used as food by her brutal captors. She was kept sane – and helped to escape – by…

dark_mirror

2007-09-10T19:51:14+11:00

Book 1: The Dark Mirror Book 2: Blade of Fortriu ---------- Juliet Marillier Tor (2005) ISBN: 0330421700 $19.95 Go back to Reviews page Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Dec 2005 This is the story of Bridei and Tuala. Bridei is destined for greatness and lives with a druid, Broichan, who is determined that Bridei will achieve his full potential. Bridei finds baby Tuala in midwinter and refuses to let her out of his life, even though her origins may be unearthly. Whil…

dark_space

2009-01-21T16:03:19+11:00

Book 1: Dark Space Review 1 by Tehani Wessely, Review 2 by Lorraine Cormack, Review 3 by Alexandra Pierce Book 2: Chaos Space Review by Alexandra Pierce by Marianne de Pierres Dark Space Review 1 Orion (2007) ISBN: 9781841494289 $19.95 Buy this book Return to Reviews Page Syndicated from Andromeda Spaceways, reviewed by Tehani Wessely, June 2007 Reading a Marianne de Pierres novel is almost like immersing yourself in a brilliantly detailed film – you find yourself engrossed in…

dark_wraith_of_shannara

2008-08-15T09:33:30+11:00

created by Terry Brooks, adapted by Robert Place Napton, illustrated by Edwin David Orbit (2008) ISBN: 9781841496382 $22.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely, Aug 2008 Sometimes it takes something a little different to make you realize what you’ve been missing out on. For some reason, Terry Brooks’ world of Shannara was one I’d never become involved in. Despite the obvious and continual accolades Shannara has received over many years, despite rave reviews and recomme…

darkness_within

2009-01-04T01:37:41+11:00

Review 1 by Tim Kroenert, Review 2 by Tehani Wessely, Review 3 by Angela Slatter by Jason Nahrung Review 1 Hachette Livre (2007) ISBN:9780734409713 $32.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tim Kroenert, June 2007 With an obvious flair for plot and pace, debutante Brisbane novelist Jason Nahrung provides a Sydney-based supernatural thriller that, despite being derivative in parts, is overall nothing less than a cracking good read. What’s more, he packs a voluminous sense of history into the …

dart-thornton_cecilia

2005-11-25T00:20:13+11:00

Dart-Thornton, Cecilia * Visions Magazine Issue 30 - interview

dartnall_terry

2006-02-24T17:44:55+11:00

* Skeleton * Our Starship is Stranded - winner of the AntipodeanSF Award 2003 * The Next Enemy * Power Switch * Cyborg! * The Truth is in Here * Footfall * Opposite Directions

datlow_ellen

2006-04-11T16:05:38+11:00

* Interview in ASIM 19 * The Fear Remains the Same - Interview in Ticonderoga Online Issue 7

david_buchbinder

2009-06-27T15:42:51+11:00

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.

david_caroll

2005-11-25T00:13:16+11:00

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 <.

david_carroll

2008-10-16T15:22:19+11:00

david_carroll_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:42:03+11:00

Interviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts David Carroll is one third of 'Edwina Grey', whose novel Prismatic won an Aurealis Award for best horror novel last year. He has also written short stories, non-fiction and roleplaying material over many years, including the book All Tomorrow's Zombies, recently published by Eden Studios. He is a committee member of the Australian Horror Writers Association and runs the Tabula Rasa website with Kyla Ward.

david_conyers_snapshot_2007

2007-08-22T23:41:11+11:00

Interviewed by Alisa Krasnostein David Conyers is an Adelaide based author. His first novel The Spiraling Worm, co-authored with John Sunseri, was published in the United States this year. He has also been a Ditmar, Aurealis and Aeon Award nominee, and won this year’s Australian Horror Writers Associations Flash Fiction Award. www.davidconyers.com

days_of_allison

2007-03-03T23:02:48+11:00

by Eric Shapiro Crowsing Books (2006) ISBN: 1-905100-20-5 UK6.99 Buy this Book Back to the Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, March 2007 Ah, robots. Who doesn’t like the idea? Creating something artificial in humanity’s image has been around since classical times, and our obsession with it only grew greater in the Twentieth Century. And part of this fascination has been with the view to replacing the inadequate we find ourselves forced to cohabit with, and creating a perfec…

de_pierres_marianne

2006-03-01T18:49:57+11:00

* Interview, TiconderogaOnline, Issue 6 * Gin Jackson: Neophyte Ranger * Glimmer-By-Dark

dead_and_gone

2009-09-22T19:11:22+11:00

by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (2009) ISBN: 9780575085510 $29.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely Sep 2009 It was a surreal experience, reading Dead and Gone after inhaling almost two full seasons of the television series True Blood, which is based on these Sookie Stackhouse books. I’ve never been a huge fan of the Sookie books, although I’ve now worked my way through them all, but I’m in absolute lust with True Blood, and I wondered how this would affect my enjoyment of…

dead_as_a_doornail

2009-01-04T00:38:11+11:00

by Charlaine Harris Gollancz (2005) ISBN:9780441012794 $36.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by David Buchbinder, January 2008 The fifth in the Sookie Stackhouse or Southern Vampire series (there are currently seven, not counting a scattering of short stories and one novella), Dead As a Doornail continues the adventures of its heroine Sookie Stackhouse as she resumes her encounters with the living, the dead, the human, the non-human and those whose nature is more difficult to classify. For…

deadlight

2009-01-03T23:17:42+11:00

by Troy Barnes Troy Barnes Publishing (2007) ISBN: 9780646471174 $29.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Anna Hepworth, Apr 2008 Deadlight is the debut novel by Tasmanian writer Troy Barnes and is one of the worst novels I've read in a long time. It is the story of Sarah, a young woman with a cliched murky past of neglect and abuse who spends her life avenging victims whose murders have gone unsolved, or unidentified. The story is presented from many different views, including Sarah, …

deborah_biancotti_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:32:51+11:00

Interviewed by Ben Payne Deb Biancotti found success with her first story, The First and Final Game, and has since won Best New Talent at the Ditmars, and picked up a swag of other awards and nominations for stories such as King of All and the Metal Sentinals, Number Three Raw Place, Summa Seltza Missive, Rope Artist and The Dying Light.

debt_of_bones

2009-06-27T16:22:49+11:00

by Terry Goodkind Gollancz (2008) ISBN: 9780752889818 $19.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, Jun 2009 “Debt of Bones” is a standalone story set in the world of the Sword of Truth. Although it is published here by itself, it’s a novella rather than a novel. The edition I have is illustrated by Keith Parkinson with lovely black and white drawings which reflect the text well. At the time of writing this review, and reading “Debt of Bones”, I haven’t read an…

decemeber_2008_headlines

2009-10-24T16:24:38+11:00

Thursday December 4 2008 * The Dec IROSF is out. If you're in the Christmas spirit (or want to be), Dan Kimmel takes a look at Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, a movie known for being one of the worst ever. IROSF will be the new home for Kristine Kathryn Rusch's column, “Signals,” previously housed at Aeon Speculative Fiction.

dedman_stephen

2006-02-15T17:45:06+11:00

* The Whole of the Law * Hard Lessons * Crossing the Borders: Interview with Stephen Dedman & Grant Watson * Coup de Grace

deevee_flange

2006-02-15T14:33:14+11:00

Edited by Daren White Published by deevee press 2005, 60 pages, B&W, standard size AUS$10 Go back to the reviews page Buy this Reviewed by David Carroll, Nov 2005 In the late 1990s, DeeVee was the predominant comic anthology for an introspective and eccentric style that plays an important part in the local scene. It had bold covers and always interesting content, including the continuing adventures of Eddie Campbell's alter ego, Alec. After issue fourt…

definitely_dead

2009-01-04T00:47:18+11:00

Review 1 by Tehani Wessely, Review 2 by Gillian Polack by Charlaine Harris Review 1 Gollancz (2008) ISBN:9780575078918 $29.99 Buy this book Reviewed by Tehani Wessely, January 2008 Vampires, werewolves, witches, kidnapping, murder and a sassy heroine. Hmmmm, sound familiar? Perhaps, but while supernatural romances and vampire hunters/detectives/lovers seem to be a dime a dozen these days, that doesn't stop them from being both entertaining and a fun read.

delight_mike

2005-11-25T00:20:44+11:00

* Buckled Friendship

demian_richard

2005-11-25T00:23:42+11:00

* Power Play

demonwar_saga

2009-11-08T16:42:33+11:00

Book 1: Rides a Dread Legion Book 2: At the Gates of Darkness by Raymond E. Feist Rides a Dread Legion HarperCollins (2009) ISBN: 9780007264704 $32.99 Buy this Book Reviewed by Sally Morgan, Nov 2009 I’ve been a fan of Feist since his first novel, Magician, and reread this initial series every other year or so. I did find though that that series lost me along the way, around the time of The King’s Buccaneer. The story was being strung out a little too much for me and I want…

derek_smith

2007-04-10T17:03:38+11:00

Canberra resident, Derek Smith has been writing since 1996 and writes stories based on his own life experiences as well as both short and long science fiction. His books and short fiction has been published both in Australia and the US. He is currently submitting articles to Wonkepedia.

designated_targets_world_war_2.2

2007-09-10T19:06:31+11:00

by John Birmingham Pan Macmillan Australia (2005) ISBN: 1-4050-3683-4 $19.95 Buy this Book Return to Reviews Page Reviewed by Lorraine Cormack, September 2007 Designated Targets is the second book in a trilogy that tells the story of a military taskforce from the 21st century, who are accidentally thrown back in time 80 years, finding themselves in the middle of World War II. In the confusion of the initial “Transition”, as the accident comes to be known, the Taskforce inadvert…

destiny_s_children

2009-03-29T15:28:19+11:00

Book 1: Coalescent Book 2: Exultant Book 3: Transcendent Book 4: Resplendent by Stephen Baxter Resplendent Orion (2007) ISBN: 9780575079830 $19.95 Buy this Book Reviewed by Gillian Polack, Mar 2009 I love it that there are always exciting books that I somehow missed when they came out. There's a good reason for me having missed Baxter's Destiny's Children series. I had just read one too many mega-what-if-future-mankind novels and had taken against them. The last one I had rea…

deucalion

2006-09-24T17:44:27+11:00

by Brian Caswell University of Queensland Press (1995) ISBN 0-7022-2865-6 $16.95 Buy this book Go Back to Reviews page Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Sept 2006 Deucalion was the name of the only remaining man, according to Greek mythology, to survive Zeus’ grand purge when humanity was going to ruin. It is also the name of the first planet to be colonised by humans, in 2145. Naturally, since it’s appropriate for human habitation, there was already a thriving ecosystem - includin…

devin_jeyathurai

2008-02-26T16:25:11+11:00

Devin Jeyathurai lives in Singapore although it has often been said that his mind lives elsewhere. Devin owns his own business (est. Aug 2004) and has recently abandoned his job as a consultant for the largest global public relations agency in the world. Now he sells his services to the highest bidder, although complex legal agreements prevent us discussing those “services” here. Aside from that, Devin does little more than eat, sleep and poo, although he does set aside the occasional moment to…

dickerson_russell

2005-11-25T00:22:41+11:00

* Artwork in Dark Animus Issue 7

dickey_darren

2005-12-03T19:42:42+11:00

* Universe

dickinson_chris

2005-12-01T19:34:03+11:00

* Watching the Titans

dirk_flinthart

2006-06-28T16:30:22+11:00

Reading the other bios online suggests to me I should write something about what I’ve written and published. Okay, fine: in speculative fiction, it’s a raft of short stories in places like Agog! and Andromeda Spaceways and a variety of anthologies. Elsewhere... eh, I’m reviewing spec fiction, so you don’t need to know about my history with crime fiction, travel, feature journalism, short film, blah blah blah. In a nutshell, to date I write short spec fiction, I’ve been nominated for th…

dirk_flinthart_snapshot_2007

2007-08-23T00:58:19+11:00

Interviewed by Tansy Rayner Roberts Dirk Flinthart is a writer based in Scottsdale, Tasmania. His recent published work includes short stories in New Ceres #1 and ASIM #30. Earlier this year, Dirk edited an issue of ASIM, and he was recently announced as the editor of an upcoming anthology (submissions currently open) with Agog! Press: Canterbury 2100. He blogs over at .

discussion

2006-10-18T15:06:30+11:00

All about the plugin : Test

ditmar_2005_collected_works

2005-11-25T00:15:28+11:00

Award for the Best Collected Works WINNER - Black Juice: Margo Lanagan. Other nominees: * Agog! Smashing Stories: ed. Sparks, Cat * Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine: ed. Lyn Triffitt, Edwina Harvey, Andrew Finch, Zara Baxter, Matthews, Robbie & Tehani Croft * Orb 6: ed. Sarah Endacott * Encounters: ed. Donna Hanson and Maxine McArthur, CSFG Publishing

ditmar_2005_fan_achievement

2005-11-25T00:16:02+11:00

Award for Best Fan Achievement WINNER - Conflux convention committee Other nominees: * Super Happy Robot Hour * Continuum 2 convention committee Go back to the reviews page

ditmar_2005_fan_artwork

2005-11-25T00:16:59+11:00

Award for Best Fan Artwork WINNER - Sarah Xu William Atheling Jnr Award for Criticism or Review Other nominees: * Robert Hood: review of Weight of Water at Hood Reviews, asking “is this film a ghost story?” * Jason Nahrung: Why are publishers afraid of horror, BAM, Courier Mail, 20 March 2004 * Peek, Ben: review of Haruki Murakami's work in the Urban Sprawl Project

ditmar_2005_novel

2005-11-25T00:16:57+11:00

Award for Best Novel WINNER - Sean Williams: The Crooked Letter Other nominees: * Harland, Richard: The Black Crusade * Maxine McArthur: Less than Human Go back to the reviews page

ditmar_2005_novella_novellete

2005-11-25T00:16:48+11:00

Award for Best Novella/Novelette WINNER - Haines, Paul: The Last Days of Kali Yuga, NFG Magazine, Volume 2 Issue 4, August 2004 Other nominees: * Stephen Dedman: The Whole of the Law, ASIM 13 * Harland, Richard: Catabolic Magic, Aurealis #32 * Sparks, Cat: Home by the Sea, Orb #6, July

ditmar_2005_professional_achievement

2005-11-25T00:17:04+11:00

Award for Best Professional Achievement WINNER - The Clarion South Team: negotiating with the US Clarion people, then promoting and establishing Clarion South which gives emerging writer the chance to work with the best in the business. Other nominees:

ditmar_2005_professional_art

2005-11-25T00:16:19+11:00

Award for Best Professional Artwork WINNER - Kerri Valkova: cover of The Black Crusade, Chimaera Publications Other nominees: * Les Petersen: cover of ASIM 12 * Sparks, Cat: cover of Agog! Smashing Stories * Les Petersen: cover of Encounters * Les Petersen: cover and internal ASIM 16

ditmar_2005_short_story

2005-11-25T00:16:37+11:00

Award for Best Short Story WINNER - Margo Lanagan: Singing My Sister Down, Black Juice Other nominees: Biancotti, Deborah: Number 3 Raw Place, Agog! Smashing Stories Rjurik Davidson: The Interminable Suffering of Mysterious Mr Wu, Aurealis #33 Peek, Ben: R-Rated, Agog! Smashing Stories

ditmar_eligibles_list_2008

2008-02-03T01:00:04+11:00

as considered by The Last Short Story on Earth Project Angela Slatter Crush Antipodean SF #103 Steve Duffy Truth in Sentencing Antipodean SF #103 Catriona Hoy Summer Holiday Antipodean SF #103 Shaun A. Saunders Animal University Antipodean SF #103 C. C. Eaton The Harvest Antipodean SF #103 Francis Conaty The Rude Awakening Antipodean SF #103 John Craig The Last Supper Antipodean SF #103 Shaun A. Saunders Grumbles Antipodean SF #103 Susan Wardle Iron Shirt Ticonderoga Online #10 Matthe…

ditmar_eligibles_list_2009

2008-03-27T15:32:07+11:00

Novels * The Changeling by Sean Williams * The Accidental Sorceror by K E Mills Short Stories Tony Williams Fortune's Favor Allegory Simon Petrie Fomalhaut 451 Antipodean SF #116 Glenn Davies In His Image Antipodean SF #116 Michael Schaper A Paper Man Antipodean SF #116 Ben Payne Risk Assessment Antipodean SF #116 Shaun A. Saunders ZAN Antipodean SF #116 Peter MacGregor Ally's Torment Antipodean SF #116 David Such Immigration Antipodean SF #116 Ashley Arnold Gersnback's Monkeys A…

ditmar_winners_2008

2008-04-19T17:23:41+11:00

Ditmar Winners 2008 Best Novel Saturn Returns by Sean Williams (Published by Orbit.) Best Novella/Novelette A Lady of Adestan by Cat Sparks (Published by Orb Publications in Orb #7 edited by Sarah Endacott.) Best Short Story The Dark and What It Said by Rick Kennett (Published by Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine in ASIM #28 edited by Zara Baxter)

ditmars

2008-04-19T17:24:32+11:00

* Ditmar Eligibles List 2008 - Short Story Category only * Ditmar Winners 2008 * Ditmar Eligibles List 2009

ditmars_2005

2005-11-25T00:24:07+11:00

Ditmars 2005 The Ditmars were presented at Thylacon, the 44th Australian National Science Fiction Convention, on 11 June 2005. Only attending and supporting members of Thylacon are eligible to vote. The nominess and winners in each category are:

do_androids_dream_of_electric_sheep

2007-09-24T17:27:41+11:00

by Philip K Dick Gollancz (2007) ISBN:0575079932 UK7.99 Buy this book Back to reviews page Reviewed by Angela Slatter, Sept 2007 If I could get away with writing nothing more than ‘It’s a classic, just read it’, I would. Mainly because anything I might say about this particular book would seem superfluous. Alas, my editor tells me I must reach the realms of approximately one thousand words ... so here I go, trying to do justice to this particular piece of Philip Kindred Dick’s …