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.