Original novellas by Juliet Marillier, Lucy Sussex, Joanne Anderton, Cat Sparks, Stephanie Gunn, Angela Rega, and Susan Wardle

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Seven original novellas from some of Australia’s premier fantasy writers. In these pages you’ll find trolls and angels, princes and puritans, cats and captives, and master crafters of materials and machines.

• “Beautiful” by Juliet Marillier
• “Lady Brilliana” by Lucy Sussex
• “I Almost Went to the Library Last Night” by Joanne Anderton
• “And the Ship Sails On” by Cat Sparks
• “Pinion” by Stephanie Gunn
• “With this Needle I thee Thread” by Angela Rega
• “Shatterglass” by Susan Wardle

19 speculative tales of radical futures.

These stories explore meteorological, agricultural and biological technologies, alternative histories, arcologies and communes, the beauty in flooded cities, innovations in cross-continental travel, animals on the verge of extinction, androids, reality tv shows, new food sources, environmental refugees, blurring the divide between humans and animals, and above all, friendship, family and love.

Ecopunk! 19 optimistic tales selected by two award-winning editors, showing how humanity can survive and flourish, despite the looming uncertainty from climate change. The incredible line-up includes some of Australia’s best science fiction writers:

• Adam Browne, “The Radiolarian Violin”
• Matthew Chrulew, “Future Perfect”
• Emilie Collyer, “From the Dark”
• Jason Fischer, “Milk and Honey”
• Tom Guerney, “The Mangrove Maker”
• Claire McKenna, “Mr. Mycelium”
• R. Jean Mathieu, “The City Sunk, the City Risen”
• D.K. Mok, “The Wandering Library”
• Jason Nahrung, “The Today Home”
• Ian Nichols, “First Flight”
• Shauna O’Meara, “Island Green”
• Rivqa Rafael, “Trivalent”
• Jane Rawson, “The Right Side of History”
• Jane Routley, “The Scent of Betrayal”
• Andrew Sullivan, “The Butterfly Whisperer”
• Janeen Webb, “Monkey Business”
• Corey J. White, “Happy Hunting Ground”
• Tess Williams, “Broad Church”
• Marian Womack, “Pink Footed”

Introduction by Seanan McGuire

The anthology is loaded with stories of dark urban fantasy imbued with mythology; seventeen fantastic tales of monsters, gods, magic and so much more.

• Joanne Anderton, “Sanaa’s Army”
• Alan Baxter, “Cephalopoda Obsessia”
• Jenny Blackford, “A Moveable Feast”
• Vivian Caethe, “Skin”
• MD Curelas, “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”
• Thoraiya Dyer, “Surviving Film”
• Dirk Flinthart, “The Bull in Winter”
• Stephanie Gunn, “The Skin of the World”
• Richard Harland, “A Mother’s Love”
• Pete Kempshall, “Dead Inside”
• Penny Love, “A Small Bad Thing”
• Karen Maric, “Embracing the Invisible”
• Christine Morgan, “Ferreau’s Curse”
• Nicole Murphy, “Euryale”
• Kat Otis, “And the Dead Shall be Raised Incorruptible”
• Dan Rabarts, “The Bone Plate”
• Erin Underwood, “The Foam Born”

17 tales of real women and unreal worlds.

Speculative fiction stories about female characters who are strong in many different ways. There may be futuristic or fantastic settings, but one thing remains the same: resourceful, resilient women who are committed to doing what is needed, no matter what the cost.

• Cherith Baldry, “Star Bright”
• Jenny Blackford, “The Sorrow”
• Kay Chronister, “Dustbowl”
• Stephanie Gunn, “Broken Glass”
• Kathryn Hore, “Generation Zero”
• Kathleen Jennings, “A Hedge of Yellow Roses”
• Faith Mudge, “Blueblood”
• T R Napper, “The Silica Key”
• Rivqa Rafael, “Function A:save(target.Dawn)”
• Alter S. Reiss, “Catalysis”
• Jane Routley, “Barista”
• Cat Sparks, “Veteran’s Day”
• Kyla Ward, “Cursebreaker: The Mutalibeen and the Memphite Mummies”
• Marlee Jane Ward, “Clara’s”
• Susan Wardle, “A Truck Called Remembrance”
• Janeen Webb, “A Wondrous Necessary Woman”
• Eleanor R Wood, “The Fruits of Revolution”

Introduction by Jeffrey Ford

The Finest Ass in the Universe collects 26 fantastic and unique visions, 5 stories original to the collection, and an introduction by Jeffrey Ford.

Interzone said of her first collection, “Monterra’s Deliciosa is a delicious collection of often startling and outrageous tales.”

Elation, compulsion, exploration, love and exquisitely timed bullying, a lascivious oyster, a man called Eggplant, the dangers of smelling like honey pudding, the enticement of innocent toadlets, the unending day of deadness. The daughter of a part-time magician and a Las Vegas showgirl turns to science. Destiny points a young man to brassiere design. Suddenly orphaned siblings try to protect their most vulnerable. Fortunes craze in neighbourhoods living cheek-by-jowl. Unintendeds abound, as life cavorts in all its unclassifiable contrariness.

Introduction by Kaaron Warren

Angel Dust is the first story collection by Australian rising star Ian McHugh. McHugh is a Writers of the Future winner, and has a number of significant overseas short fiction sales.

Angel Dust collects 15 incredible fantastic visions. A number of these were first published in Asimov’s and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Four stories are original to this collection.

Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams says of this writer, “Ian McHugh has a remarkable ability to render the alien utterly convincing. His nonhuman lives are so powerfully depicted that we can easily, and sometimes uneasily, immerse ourselves completely into their worlds.”

Introduction by John Harwood

WINNER OF THE AUREALIS AWARD

Over 132,000 words of the best fiction by best-selling writer Sean Williams.

• A Map of the Mines of Barnath
• Ghosts of the Fall
• The Soap Bubble
• The Magic Dirt Experiment
• Night of the Dolls (with Shane Dix)
• Atrax (with Simon Brown)
• End of the World
• The Seventh Letter
• Evermore
• The Butterfly Merchant
• Reluctant Misty & the House on Burden Street
• The Girl-Thing
• Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)
• Passing the Bone
• A View Before Dying
• Team Sharon
• White Christmas
• Masque of Agamemnon (with Simon Brown)

Introduction by Pamela Sargent

Cover illustration by Nick Stathopoulos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 WORLD FANTASY AWARD

Death at the Blue Elephant is the first story collection by the respected and multiple award winning Australian writer and editor Janeen Webb. She is a recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Peter MacNamara SF Achievement Award, the Australian Aurealis Award, and is a three-time winner of the Ditmar Award.

In her introduction to this book, Pamela Sargent describes these stories as evoking a “combination of suspenseful anticipation, nervous apprehension, and total absorption in something far removed from my own experience”. Death at the Blue Elephant collects 18 incredible globe-spanning visions by the self-confessed “inveterate traveller”. Five stories are original to this collection.

There’s magic here, and illusion, and strange wonders that’ll surprise and delight. — Robert Shearman

Exotic, cunning—often funny—and now and then edges to cut yourself on. — Tanith Lee

Gloriously adult, these stories will transport you—but they’ll never drop you home. — Anna Tambour

Janeen Webb’s assemblage of angels, aliens, devils and assorted revenants bring with them compassion and settings rich and exotic where even the mundanity of our everyday world is imbued with a sparkle rarely glimpsed in the hands of lesser writers. — Peter Crowther

Introduction by Robert Hood

Cover illustration by Jason Paulos

The debut collection of Jason Fischer’s award-winning short fiction. This collection features his post-apocalyptic and zombie related work.

Within these covers, you will find murderous dropbears, zombie kangaroos and undead camels. Poignant endings to the world mash-up with muscle car battles, featuring feral killers that make Mad Max look like the Disney channel. Everything is a Graveyard delves into the fantastic, the horrifying, the sad and the just plain weird.

“The President was alive. I was alive. No idea what the hell had just happened, other than that I was simply alive, and glad of it.”

Nations of Earth Ambassador Cory Wilson had thought the hardest part of his role would be mastering the many intricacies of gamra pronouns. Then the President is shot in front of him, and all clues point to extraterrestrial agencies.

Only the truth will prevent the conflict escalating, but to find it, Cory has to challenge the very top of the Coldi hierarchy, in a society where the simple act of looking someone in the eye or using the wrong pronouns can mean the difference between life and death.

Ambassador is a science fiction thriller, featuring interplanetary intrigue, unearthly greed, interstellar romance, and an ambassador from New Zealand.