num_pages: 560
description: This is a collection of Australian speculative fiction, both "wild-side" fiction which has an edge of horror, fantasy or magical realism; and genre fiction - science fiction, fantasy and horror. The stories have comments by editors and thoughts by the writers.Despite not having been published outside of Australia, Dreaming Down-Under won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and stories from its pages have appeared in many Year's Best anthologies. Now we can enjoy this excellent anthology without a round-the-globe trip.Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Ellison recently declared that this is the Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction. Dreaming Down-Under showcases this Golden Age with thirty-one exciting original stories by both acknowledged masters and hot new writers from -- where else? -- Down-Under. Contents:Entre les beaux morts en vie (Among the beautiful living dead) / Sean Williams --The dancing floor / Cherry Wilder --Descent / Cecily Scutt --The soldier in the machine / Russell Blackford --Matilda told such dreadful lies / Lucy Sussex --The womb / Damien Broderick --A walk-on part in the war / Stephen Dedman --Wired dreaming / Paul Collins --The body politic / Tess Williams --The truth about Weena / David J. Lake --The marsh runners / Paul Brandon --Prelude to a nocturne / Rowena Cory Lindquist --Real men / Rosaleen Love --The latest dream I ever dreamed / Norman Talbot --Ma Rung / Steven Paulsen --Dream, until God burns / Andrew Enstice --Night of the Wandjina / Wynne Whiteford --To Avalon / Jane Routley --He tried to catch the light / Terry Dowling --The third rail / Aaron Sterns --Jetsam / Kerry Greenwood --And now doth time waste me / George Turner --The man who lost his shadow / Isobelle Carmody --Unborn again / Chris Lawson --The evil within / Sara Douglass --Two recipes for magic beans / Rosaleen Love --The doppelganger effect / Dirk Strasser --Tamed / Robert Hood --Queen of soulmates / Sean McMullen --The last dance / Ian Nichols --With clouds at our feet / Simon Brown.
language: English
title: Dreaming Down-Under
titlecomplete: Dreaming Down-Under
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Australia, Anthologies, Horror, High Fantasy, Fantasy
ratings_count: 67
series: Dreaming
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Anthology
publisher: Tor Books