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The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction And Fantasy
 
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The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction And Fantasy (Paperback)

~ Bill Congreve (Editor), Michelle Marquardt (Editor)
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For readers accustomed to massive "year's best" anthologies, this Australian import may seem lightweight with only 11 tales, but it's a fine sampling of mostly cross-genre fiction from Down Under. Lynette Aspey's endearing, character-driven "Dreaming Dragons" plays with Vietnamese myth. Terry Dowling's "Flashmen," a gripping tale of a future Earth beset by a truly alien invasion, explores the meaning of heroism. Brendan D. Carson's "Occam's Razing" is a short but highly imaginative story of religious contagion. Damien Broderick offers a thoughtful postnanotech fable, "The Meek." In "The Dreaming City" by Ben Peek, Mark Twain dreams of an encounter with an aboriginal spirit and is moved to write a book in defense of Australia's native population. Congreve and Marquart provide an excellent introduction to the vicissitudes of the Australian genre market, as well as information about publications and some recommended reading. (Dec.)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Prime Books (June 30, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0809550598
  • ISBN-13: 978-0809550593
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Australian SF Reader, July 31, 2007
A welcome surprise to come across this volume after a gap of some years from the Byrne and Strahan collections. Bonus point for the overview and recommended reading section.

Year's Best ASF&F One : Birds of the Bushes and Scrubs - Geoffrey Maloney
Year's Best ASF&F One : Sleeping Dragons - Lynette Aspey
Year's Best ASF&F One : No 3 Raw Place - Deborah Biancotti
Year's Best ASF&F One : Flashmen - Terry Dowling
Year's Best ASF&F One : Tripping Over the Light Fantastic - Kim Westwood
Year's Best ASF&F One : Bones - Rjurik Davidson
Year's Best ASF&F One : Occam's Razing - Brendan D. Carson
Year's Best ASF&F One : Home by the Sea - Cat Sparks
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Meek - Damien Broderick
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Tale of Enis Cash Smallgoods Smokehand - Brendan Duffy
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Dreaming City - Ben Peek

Dogbeque and loin of long pig as civilisation decays around its museums.

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Superpowered alien egg boy happy at home.

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Big creepy house. Bad.

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Dowling has again produced a stunning sf story that retains a distinctly alien flavour, as an old Flashmen team reassembles with a rookie as its focus, to deal with the landing of yet another craft.

Old allies, friends and rivals have to try and get along, and not die while saving thousands of people from the incursion.

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Show business crappy for kids.

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Mad bad band.

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Quarantaine scientifique.

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Global warming future time travelling rent boy as martyr.

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Nuclear-nano war survivors recruited and uploaded.

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Dragon dung disposal is a dangerous business, for serious professionals.

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Mark Twain's Sydney Dreaming timeslip.

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