num_pages: 525
description: Science fiction is a world-wide literature, as World Fantasy Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has often shown. Now Hartwell and acclaimed Australian anthologist Damien Broderick are bringing a higher profile to Australian SF with Centaurus, a showcase of some of the most original voices in SF.Included are stories from Peter Carey, Greg Egan, Terry Dowling, A. Bertram Chandler, Phillippa C. Maddern, Rosaleen Love, Sean McMullen, Lucy Sussex, and George Turner. For both avid followers of Australian SF and genre readers who have not yet discovered our southern stars, Centaurus is an anthology no SF fan will want to miss.9 • Introduction (Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction) • (1999) • essay by Damien Broderick • 22 • The Other Editor's Introduction (Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction) • (1999) • essay by David G. Hartwell • 26 • Flowering Mandrake • (1994) • novelette by George Turner • 63 • The Mountain Movers • [John Grimes Rimworld] • (1971) • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler • 82 • Things Fall Apart • (1988) • novelette by Philippa C. Maddern • 101 • Written in Blood • (1999) • shortstory by Chris Lawson • 116 • Pie Row Joe • (1978) • shortstory by Kevin McKay • 127 • A Map of the Mines of Barnath • (1995) • shortstory by Sean Williams • 150 • My Lady Tongue • (1988) • novelette by Lucy Sussex • 188 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan • 220 • The Dominant Style • (1991) • shortstory by Sean McMullen • 233 • Borderline • (1996) • novella by Leanne Frahm • 272 • Privateers' Moon • [The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros] • (1992) • novelette by Terry Dowling • 299 • Re-deem the Time • (1978) • shortstory by David J. Lake • 313 • Matters of Consequence • (1992) • shortstory by Shane Dix • 321 • The Total Devotion Machine • (1989) • shortstory by Rosaleen Love • 329 • The Colonel's Tiger • [Man-Kzin Wars] • (1995) • novella by Hal Colebatch • 388 • The Soldier in the Machine • (1998) • novelette by Russell Blackford • 411 • From Whom All Blessings Flow • (1995) • novelette by Stephen Dedman • 431 • Looking Forward to the Harvest • (1991) • novelette by Cherry Wilder • 456 • The Magi • (1982) • novelette by Damien Broderick • 494 • The Chance • (1979) • novelette by Peter Carey
language: English
title: Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction
titlecomplete: Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Tor Books; Tom Doherty Associates