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The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Vol 1

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A top notch collection of writing from Australia's top talents. You find Terry Dowling, Sean Williams and even Greg Egan featured here, among others.

A nice, broad range of stories, so something that is likely to appeal to almost anyone that is a fan of this sort of work, even if not Australian.

The editors also give their reasonably brief overview of the Australian SF scene, and point out that they think 1996 was really very fine, so a nice bonus point part of the book.

Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Silver Fire - Greg Egan
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Of Fingers and Foreskins - Sara Douglass
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse - Terry Dowling
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : The Ghost of Mrs Rochester - Lucy Sussex
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : The Mark of Thetis - Simon Brown
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Never Seen By Waking Eyes - Stephen Dedman
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : The Sword of God - Russell Blackford
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Blind Eye - Jack Dann
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Ilium - Andrew Whitmore
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Princess Melodia and the White Catherine - Beverley Macdonald
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : A Man and His Dreams - Marele Day
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Passing the Bone - Sean William
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance - Cherry Wilder
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : Schrödinger's Dog - Damien Broderick
Year's Best ASF&F 1 : The Phoenix - Isobelle Carmody


A CDC researcher looks into the agonising titular disease, and has to track it through a travelling dance and music scene, where a cult of sorts has grown up around it.

4 out of 5


Jousting invocation jaunts combatants to demon digit detachment.

3.5 out of 5


Death mandated envious personalities trap, berate and butcher immortals.

4.5 out of 5


Revenant's revenge.

3 out of 5


It seems Brown has a thing for Achilles, I hope he doesn't have too many Brad Pitt posters. This is probably a bit long, and definitely on the dull side.

2.5 out of 5


Lawyer's fellow parasite little girl lamia finds hemoglobin more expeditious than head.

4 out of 5


The Queen of Palmyra's domain is being slowly strangled by Aurelian, Imperator of Rome and his sun god priests. She hires the blood-fueled mage Simeon Africanus to help her turn the tide.

4 out of 5


House spirits.

2.5 out of 5


Turkish transient's Trojan time travelling trip tweak.

4 out of 5


Mouthy girl's psychic power pact.

3.5 out of 5


Mountain mendicant's mental merchandise.

3 out of 5


Really rotten family.

4 out of 5


Downed alien vistitor helped to European mountainside chalet retreat.

3 out of 5


Quantum reality voyaging testing is interesting, apart from the fact if it is you in the testing, you are terminally ill. The cats into dogs trick would be pretty handy, as well.

5 out of 5


Loopy blokes take their fantasy funereally too far.

4 out of 5