Short Stories

Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.

The latest volume in the Agog! anthology series, with stories by Australian contributors. Kijin Tea, by Kyla Ward Waiting at Golgotha, by Simon Brown Runaway, by Lucy Sussex Moonflowers at the Ritz, by Marianne de Pierres Louder Echo, by Brendan Duffy Lacey’s Fingerprints, by Chris Lawson In the Days of the Red Animals, by Kate Orman JAM Jars, by Robert Hood Bone Dog, by Kaaron Warren Sigmund Freud & the Feral Freeway, by Martin Livings Uncharted, by Leigh Blackmore Exterminator rex, by Adam Browne Storm in a Chandelier, by Tracey…

In the mid 1980s to early 1990s, acclaimed author and editor George Zebrowski created Synergy, an all-new collection of the best modern science fiction stories, which spanned four volumes and published some of the most innovative, thought-provoking, speculative fiction ever. Synergy SF: New Science Fiction marks the return of this acclaimed original anthology with a new selection of stories, including: Jan Lars Jensen’s “Bodily Surrender,” in which a man may interface with a machine, but what does he see when he looks back on his humanity; Charles L. Harness’s “Polly,”…

Classic fairy tales made enchantingly modern by: Nini Kiriki Hoffman, Tanya Huff, Jody Lynn Nye and others. From a young girl who rescues her brother when he’s magically trapped in a mall, to a guitarist’s who trades his jacket for magical picks, to a talking cat who proves invaluable to his modern family, here are seventeen highly original modern stories sure to cast a spell. Mallificent – Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Last Day Of The Rest – Russell Davis Jack And The B.S. – Tanya Huff Panhandler – Alan Dean…

Introduction / Pamela Sargent To the gods their due / Michelle West Intensified transmogrification / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini The Lion Hunt / Janeen Webb Observable things / Paul Di Filippo The empress Jingū fishes / Kij Johnson Twilight of idols / Stephen Dedman Spirit brother / Pamela Sargent Good deeds / Jack Dann Walking gods / George Alec Effinger An appeal to Adolf / Ian Watson Martyrs of the upshot knothole / James Morrow Nappy / George Zebrowski Del Norte /Michaela Roessner.

Includes my story Blake’s Angel (p. 78) and other stories by: Ray Bradbury Graham Joyce Peter Crowther Kim Newman Sara Douglass Thomas Tessier M. John Harrison Gahan Wilson The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters…

The heroes and heroines of Arthurian legend have never ceased to fascinate us. But what were they like before they knew their destiny? How did they cope with the idea that, one day, they’d be on the road to Camelot, and immortal fame? Fourteen of Australia’s best writers of fantasy have imagined what it’s like to be a child of destiny with stories of the adventures and life-changing moments that help to make each of these characters the legends they become. Stories from: Allan Baillie, Isobelle Carmody, Ursula Dubosarsky, Kate…

Did you ever wonder how the dwarves felt after Snow White ditched them for the prince? Do you sometimes wish Cinderella hadn’t been so helpless and petite? Are you ready to hear the Giant’s point of view on Jack and his beanstalk? Then this is the book for you. Thirteen award-winning fantasy and science fiction writers offer up their versions of these classic fairy tales as well as other favourites, including The Ugly Duckling, Ali Baba, Hansel and Gretel, and more. Some of the stories are funny, some are strange, and others are…