Legends of Australian Fantasy
10 best books like Legends of Australian Fantasy (Jack Dann): The Secret History of Fantasy, Imaginary Friends, Seeds of Change, The Apex Book of World SF 2, Gilfeather, Prickle Moon, Cracklescape, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, Metro Winds, Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top
| Author | Peter S. Beagle |
| ISBN | 1892391996 |
Step right up and buy your ticket to the impossible marvels of the Barnum Museum. Take a highly caffeinated ride through the Empire of Ice Cream. If you dare, hunt feral archetypes deep within a haunted English forest. Or conquer the New World with a band of geographically-challenged Norsemen.
Tired...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0756405114 |
Thirteen original stories about friends conjured in times of need
We?ve all had them. We?ve all needed them. In this fun fantasy anthology, readers are given thirteen variations on what kinds of friends come in handy indeed in times of need. From a toy Canadian Mountie who suddenly comes to...
| Author | John Joseph Adams |
| ISBN | 0809573105 |
Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins -- when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil,...
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...
| Author | Glenda Larke |
| ISBN | 0441013481 |
I admired Ms. Larke's ability to craft a good fantasy novel is her pervious book The Aware.Yet this addition to the series, chronicling the further adventures of Blaze Halfbreed, did not match my expectations despite my wanting to enjoy it.
The skill with which to first book was written was...
| Author | Juliet Marillier |
| ISBN | 1921857390 |
Prickle Moon is a collection of Juliet Marillier’s best short fiction. It contains eleven previously published stories and five new ones. Included are the Sevenwaters novella, "’Twixt Firelight and Water", the epic Nordic story, "Otherling", and "In Coed Celyddon", a tale of the young man who...
A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man’s outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain.
These...
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011
| Author | Liz Grzyb |
| ISBN | 1921857145 |
Thirty-two fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.
Contents:
Peter M Ball "Briar Day" (Moonlight Tuber)
Lee Battersby "Europe After The Rain" (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)
Deborah Biancotti "Bad...
| Author | Isobelle Carmody |
| ISBN | 1865084441 |
An engrossing collection of stories from one of Australia's most loved fantasy writers, and creator of the acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles.
A girl is sent across the world to discover her destiny in the dark tunnels of the Metro. Another seeks a lost sister in a park where winter lasts forever....
Circus: Fantasy Under the Big Top
It's... an anthology. Some good stories, some not so great. I reviewed each in my statuses as I read, so you can look there if you want summaries. The title doesn't really fit - there weren't many stories I'd consider fantasy in the collection. I think Sci-fi or dystopian won out in numbers, actually. Some...
Eclipse 3: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801623 |
To observe an eclipse is to witness a rare and unusual event. Under darkened skies the sun becomes a negative image of itself, its corona transforming the landscape into a strange space where anything might happen, and any story may be true...
In the spirit of classic science fiction anthologies...
| Author | Louise Cusack |
| ISBN | 0731810597 |
DESTINY OF THE LIGHT is the first novel of my “Shadow Through Time” fantasy trilogy published by Simon & Schuster Australia. It contains elements of romance, magic and horror, taking a woman from our world into the earthworld of Ennae; a sepia world joined to ours by the Sacred Pool. Talis, her...
| Author | Sean Williams |
| ISBN | 0732269954 |
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.
Sal and his father have been on the run from something for as long as Sal can remember. Now they’ve come to the seaside town of Fundelry and it seems like Sal’s father may finally be giving up. Sal doesn’t know what they’ve been running from, or...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607014890 |
Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers of speculative...
One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries
| Author | Tehani Croft Wessely |
Sixteen stories of discovery from Australia's best writers. Each story in some way addresses the idea of discoveries, new beginnings, or literal or figurative "small steps", but each story takes you to places you far beyond the one small step you imagine... Journey through worlds and explore the reaches...
