After an excellent first volume of Australian year’s
best fantasy and horror published in 2011 Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, the
editors of this new series of speculative fiction released by TiconderogaPublications, have put together the final line-up for the second volume of “The
Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror”. If last year the collection
gathered 33 stories this year Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene’s anthology offer to
the readers 32 short stories and poems first published in 2011 in Australia and
New Zealand. The first edition of “The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and
Horror” was a wonderful opportunity for me to discover new talented writers and
enjoy the works of some of my older acquaintances, although the later were not
numerous. But thanks to this collection the number of authors I am delighted to
meet again through their fiction has significantly increased and this year I am
eagerly waiting to savor their works again. Deborah Biancotti’s collection
containing the story selected for 2011 year’s best was one of the best books I read this year, Lisa L. Hannett, Angela Slatter and Kaaron Warren are names
already present in my personal library and will certainly prompt me to buy
their future works, while Felicity Dowker, Kirstyn McDermott, Andrew J.
McKiernan, Paul Haines, David Conyers and Pete Kempshall were nothing but
pleasant surprises in my first experiences with their writings. As you can see
I have plenty of reasons, but also a consistent curiosity, to await with great
interest the release of Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene’s “The Year’s Best
Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011” in July.
“Briar
Day” by Peter M. Ball (Moonlight Tuber)
“Europe
After The Rain” by Lee Battersby (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
“Bad
Power” by Deborah Biancotti (Bad Power, Twelfth Planet Press)
“The
Head in the Goatskin Bag” by Jenny Blackford (Kaleidotrope)
“Thin
Air” by Simon Brown (Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Winds
Of Nzambi” by David Conyers & David Kernot (Midnight Echo #6,
AHWA)
“More
Matter, Less Art” by Stephen Dedman (Midnight Echo #6, AHWA)
“The
Hall of Lost Footsteps” by Sara Douglass & Angela Slatter (The Hall of
Lost Footsteps, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Berries
& Incense” by Felicity Dowker (More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga
Publications)
“Dark
Me, Night You” by Terry Dowling (Midnight Echo #5, AHWA)
“Hunting
Rufus” by Jason Fischer (Midnight Echo #5, AHWA)
“Letters
Of Love From The Once And Newly Dead” by Christopher Green (Midnight Echo #5,
AHWA)
“The
Past Is A Bridge Best Left Burnt” by Paul Haines (The Last Days of Kali Yuga,
Brimstone Press)
“Forever,
Miss Tapekwa County” by Lisa L. Hannett (Bluegrass Symphony, Ticonderoga
Publications)
“At
The Top Of The Stairs” by Richard Harland (Shadows and Tall Trees #2,
Undertow Publications)
“Face
To Face” by John Harwood (Ghosts by Gaslight, HarperCollins)
“Someone
Else To Play With” by Pete Kempshall (Beauty Has Her Way, Dark Quest
Books)
“Heaven”
by Jo Langdon (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
“The
Soul of the Machine” by Maxine McArthur (Winds of Change, CSFG)
“The
Wishwriter's Wife” by Ian McHugh (Daily Science Fiction)
“Love
Death” by Andrew J. McKiernan (Aurealis #45, Chimaera Publications)
“Frostbitten”
by Kirstyn McDermott (More Scary Kisses, Ticonderoga Publications)
“Wolf
Night” by Margaret Mahy (The Wilful Eye - Tales From the Tower #1,
Allen & Unwin)
“Interview
with the Jiangshi” by Anne Mok (Dead Red Heart, Ticonderoga
Publications)
“Wraiths”
by Jason Nahrung (Winds of Change, CSFG)
“Reading
Coffee” by Anthony Panegyres (Overland, OL Society)
“The
Patrician” by Tansy Rayner Roberts (Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet
Press)
“Love
In the Atacama or the Poetry of Fleas” by Angela Rega (Crossed Genres,
CGP)
“The
Coffin-Maker's Daughter” by Angela Slatter (A Book of Horrors, Jo
Fletcher Books)
“Thief
of Lives” by Lucy Sussex (Thief of Lies, Twelfth Planet Press)
“The
Kite” by Kyla Ward (The Land of Bad Dreams, P'rea Press)
“All
You Can Do Is Breathe” by Kaaron Warren (Blood and Other Cravings, Tor)
2 comments:
Looks like a great collection, doesn't it? :) Can't wait to get my copy.
It looks excellent! I can't wait to get a copy too :)
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