A welcome surprise to come across this volume after a gap of some years from the Byrne and Strahan collections. Bonus point for the overview and recommended reading section.

Year's Best ASF&F One : Birds of the Bushes and Scrubs - Geoffrey Maloney
Year's Best ASF&F One : Sleeping Dragons - Lynette Aspey
Year's Best ASF&F One : No 3 Raw Place - Deborah Biancotti
Year's Best ASF&F One : Flashmen - Terry Dowling
Year's Best ASF&F One : Tripping Over the Light Fantastic - Kim Westwood
Year's Best ASF&F One : Bones - Rjurik Davidson
Year's Best ASF&F One : Occam's Razing - Brendan D. Carson
Year's Best ASF&F One : Home by the Sea - Cat Sparks
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Meek - Damien Broderick
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Tale of Enis Cash Smallgoods Smokehand - Brendan Duffy
Year's Best ASF&F One : The Dreaming City - Ben Peek

Dogbeque and loin of long pig as civilisation decays around its museums.

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2.5 out of 5

Superpowered alien egg boy happy at home.

4 out of 5

Big creepy house. Bad.

3 out of 5

Dowling has again produced a stunning sf story that retains a distinctly alien flavour, as an old Flashmen team reassembles with a rookie as its focus, to deal with the landing of yet another craft.

Old allies, friends and rivals have to try and get along, and not die while saving thousands of people from the incursion.

5 out of 5

Show business crappy for kids.

2.5 out of 5

Mad bad band.

2.5 out of 5

Quarantaine scientifique.

3.5 out of 5

Global warming future time travelling rent boy as martyr.

3.5 out of 5

Nuclear-nano war survivors recruited and uploaded.

3.5 out of 5

Dragon dung disposal is a dangerous business, for serious professionals.

4 out of 5

Mark Twain's Sydney Dreaming timeslip.

3.5 out of 5

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