Legends of Australian Fantasy
by Jack Dann (Editor), Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
Monster Blood Tattoo (Collections and Selections — Novella "The Corsers' Hinge: A Lamplighter Tale"), The Obernewtyn Chronicles (Collections and Selections — Novella "The Dark Road")
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From two of the best editors working today ... These are the legends of Australian fantasy - eleven of Australia's best-loved and most widely read writers ... Gathered together by equally legendary editors Jack Dann and Jonathan Strahan to produce an entirely original compilation ... Celebrate the legends of Australian fantasy. Extraordinary voices ... extraordinary worlds. Come to Erith, to a faerie tale with a sting, or to Obernewtyn, long before the Seeker was born. Revisit a dark pocket show more of history for the Magician's Guild or get caught up in the confusion of an endlessly repeating day in the Citadel. Cross the wall, where Charter magic is all that lies between you and death. A trip with a graverobber can be gruesome, and it's hard to share the fear of a woman who must kill her husband if her child is to rule ... A mysterious tale plays out in Sevenwaters. Catch up with Ros and Adi as they prepare for the greatest change of all. Other twists in these fabulous tales bring us to demonic destiny and an alternate WWII. these eleven short novels will take you on amazing new journeys with favourite characters from the worlds you know and love ... 'this is a book to savour, treasure, re-read' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on tHE LOCUS AWARDS, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Charles N. Brown 'at once quintessentially Australian and enticingly other. If you read short fiction you'll want this collection. If you don't, this is a reason to start' BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER on DREAMING AGAIN, edited by Jack Dann. show lessTags
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Honestly, I just got his to read the Obernewtyn short story, but I skimmed the others. They're all in their respective series form what I could tell. But the Obernewtyn story was worth it. Not sure why I was expecting it to be a sequel about either Elspeth or Dragon, but if you are for some reason expecting it to be that it's not. I don't even thing the series was finished when this was published.
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Jack Dann is a science fiction writer and editor who was born in 1945 in Johnson City, New York, and now lives on a farm in Victoria, Australia. He is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over 65 books, which have been translated into thirteen languages. His short stories have appeared in major magazines and anthologies show more including Omni, Asimov's F&SF, Penthouse, and Playboy. His historical fiction novel about Leonardo da Vinci, The Memory Cathedral, won the 1996 Australian Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was number one on the Age bestseller list. His novella 'Da Vinci Rising', which integrates several sections of The Memory Cathedral with some new material, won the 1996 Nebula Award, making him the first Australian resident to win this award. He has received the Australian Aurealis Award twice, the Ditmar Award three times, and the World Fantasy Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Jonathan Strahan was born in 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. In 1990 he co-founded Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, and show more worked on it as co-editor and co-publisher until 1999. He was also co-publisher of Eidolon Books which published Robin Pen's The Secret Life of Rubber-Suit Monsters, Howard Waldrop's Going Home Again, Storm Constantine's The Thorn Boy, and Terry Dowling's Blackwater Days. In 2015 he was nominated in the editor and anthology categories for the Locus Awards with the title Reach for Infinity. In 2018, he won the 2017 Aurealis Awards for the best Australian anthology for his book, Infinity Wars. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2010-06
- First words
- We could quibble about dates and times, about which particular starting point to choose, but for the purposes of this particular book ‘ground zero’ happened some time in early 1961.
- Disambiguation notice
- This anthology contains The Mad Apprentice which is part of the Black Magician series, but this anthology is not itself part of the series; likewise "To Hold the Bridge" is part of the Old Kingdom series, but this anthology i... (show all)s not itself part of that series either.
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- Fiction and Literature, Fantasy
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- 823.0876608 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Fantasy fiction Collections
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- PR9617.35 .F35 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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