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.

• Author
• Jack Dann, Janeen Webb, Sean Williams, Cherry Wilder, Cecily Scutt, Russell Blackford, Lucy Sussex, Damien Broderick, Stephen Dedman, Paul Collins, Tess Williams, David J. Lake, Paul Brandon, Rowena Cory Lindquist, Rosaleen Love, Norman Talbot, Steven Paulsen, Andrew Enstice, Wynne Whiteford, Jane Routley, Terry Dowling, Aaron Sterns, Kerry Greenwood, George Turner, Isobelle Carmody, Chris Lawson, Sara Douglass, Dirk Strasser, Robert Hood, Sean McMullen, Ian Nichols, Simon Brown

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 560

• Series
• Dreaming

• Publisher
• Tor Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-87812-2

• EAN
• 9780312878122

• Genres
• fantasy, anthologies, fiction, australia, horror

• Release date
• 2002