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Trying something a bit different for my reading round up this year - I found this Annual End Of Year Book survey and decided to try out the questions for myself. Note I’ve already done a Pleasures of Reading etc. post over at Ambling Along the Aqueduct, and covered my experience ( Read more... )

Until last year, with the change to the categories of the Aurealis Awards, the Ditmars Collected Work category was the only way to honour the magazines and anthologies which we felt were excellent as a whole ( Read more... )

From the Science Fiction Judges Report of the 2008 Aurealis Awards:

Tansy Rayner Roberts, ‘Fleshy’
A deceptively fun story whose humour leaves you unprepared for what is a surprisingly dark ( Read more... )

‘Fleshy’ by Tansy Rayner Roberts; conversely, this story was the most overtly science-fictional of the anthology, and certainly one of the most horrific, using the tried-and-true device of introducing the quietly impossible into the midst of everyday normality. A discomforting chiller, as much for the inference of ‘what happened next’ as for the ( Read more... )

Where will the world be in four years' time ( Read more... )