Dreaming Down-Under

This is a collection of Australian speculative fiction, both "wild-side" fiction which has an edge of horror, fantasy or magical realism; and genre fiction - science fiction, fantasy and horror. The stories have comments by editors and thoughts by the writers.

Despite not having been published outside of Australia, Dreaming Down-Under won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and stories from its pages have appeared in many Year's Best anthologies. Now we can enjoy this excellent anthology without a round-the-globe trip.Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Ellison recently declared that this is the Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction. Dreaming Down-Under showcases this Golden Age with thirty-one exciting original stories by both acknowledged masters and hot new writers from -- where else? -- Down-Under.

Contents:

Entre les beaux morts en vie (Among the beautiful living dead) / Sean Williams --

The dancing floor / Cherry Wilder --

Descent / Cecily Scutt --

The soldier in the machine / Russell Blackford --

Matilda told such dreadful lies / Lucy Sussex --

The womb / Damien Broderick --

A walk-on part in the war / Stephen Dedman --

Wired dreaming / Paul Collins --

The body politic / Tess Williams --

The truth about Weena / David J. Lake --

The marsh runners / Paul Brandon --

Prelude to a nocturne / Rowena Cory Lindquist --

Real men / Rosaleen Love --

The latest dream I ever dreamed / Norman Talbot --

Ma Rung / Steven Paulsen --

Dream, until God burns / Andrew Enstice --

Night of the Wandjina / Wynne Whiteford --

To Avalon / Jane Routley --

He tried to catch the light / Terry Dowling --

The third rail / Aaron Sterns --

Jetsam / Kerry Greenwood --

And now doth time waste me / George Turner --

The man who lost his shadow / Isobelle Carmody --

Unborn again / Chris Lawson --

The evil within / Sara Douglass --

Two recipes for magic beans / Rosaleen Love --

The doppelganger effect / Dirk Strasser --

Tamed / Robert Hood --

Queen of soulmates / Sean McMullen --

The last dance / Ian Nichols --

With clouds at our feet / Simon Brown.