The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, One

Edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt

Paperback 195 mm x 128 mm (73/4 in x 5 in), 255 pages.
ISBN 0-9757736-0-7
RRP $19.95 (inc GST)
(Published September 2005)

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During the year we read hundreds of stories from a huge range of Australian authors – stories published all over the world. It wasn't possible to fit everything into the anthology that we would have liked to, so we would like to recommend the following stories to interested readers.

Recommended Reading: 2004

• Athanasopoulos, Mina, 'Father of Democracy', ORB 6, June 2004.
• Barnes, Chris, 'The Glass Flower', Encounters.
• Battersby, Lee, 'Vortle', Encounters.
• — 'Tales of Nireym', ORB 6, June 2004.
• Bedford, K.A., 'Time Story', Chronopolis Convention Handbook, Mar 2004.
• Biancotti, Deborah, 'Cinnamon Gate', ORB 6, June 2004.
• Bishop, K. J., 'We the Enclosed', Leviathan 4: Cities, Dec 2004.
• Blackford, Russell, 'Idol', Oceans of the Mind, issue 13, June 2004.
• Broderick, Damien, 'Yggdrasil', Synergy.
• Brown, Simon, 'Water Babies', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• Cain, James, 'Dark Eyes', The Horror Express #1, Feb 2004.
• Carlon, Lee, 'Skin Deep', Antipodean 78, Nov 2004.
• Carroll, Monica, 'The Teller', Encounters.
• Caselberg, Jay,' Iridescence', The Third Alternative #37, Mar 2004.
• — 'End in Light', Underworlds 2, Apr 2004.
• — 'Herd Mentality', ReVISIONS.
• Congreve, Bill, 'The Shooter at Heartrock Waterhole', Faery Reel.
• Cummings, Shane Jiraiya, 'Countdown Macabre', Antipodean 76, Sep 2004.
• Dann, Jack, 'Good Deeds', Conqueror Fantastic.
• — 'Bugs', Postscripts 2, Summer, 2004.
• Dartnall, Terry, 'I am Dan's Brain: The Memoires of a Much Travelled Mind', Philosophy Now, issue 48, Oct/Nov 2004.
• Dedman, Stephen, 'Desiree', Oceans of the Mind, Dec 2003.
• Duffy, Brendan, 'Lamb', Aurealis 32, Apr 2004.
• — 'Come to Daddy', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• Eltham, Kate, 'Davey's Gift', Encounters.
• Flinthart, Dirk, 'Gaslight a Go Go', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• — 'The Flatmate From Hell', Encounters.
• Friend, Peter, 'The Christmas Tree', Asimov's, Dec 2004.
• Goossens, Darren,' Telecide', ORB 6, June 2004.
• Gottberg, Crissy, 'Dark Fae', Visions, Aug 2004.
• Guerin, Greg, 'Annals of Doubt', Geocities, Oct 2004.
• Haines, Paul, 'The Last Days of Kali Yuga', NFG Vol 2, No 1, 2004.
• — 'This is the End, Harry, Goodnight', NFG Vol 2, No 2, 2004.
• Haines, Paul, & McKenna, Claire 'Warchalking', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• Hannigan, Karin, 'Get Real Princess', Visions, June 2004.
• Harland, Richard, 'The Souvenir', Encounters.
• — 'New Talk', Oceans of the Mind, issue 10. Dec 2003.
• — 'Catabolic Magic', Aurealis 32, Apr 2004.
• Hood, Robert, 'Regolith', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• Isle, Sue, 'Dog Years', Aurealis 32, Apr 2004.
• Kemble, Gary, 'Ad Infinitum', Shadowed Realms 1, Sep 2004.
• Lanagan, Margo, 'Red Nose Day', Black Juice.
• — 'Yowlinin', ibid.
• — 'Rite of Spring', ibid.
• — 'House of the Many', ibid.
• — 'Sweet Pippit', ibid.
• — 'Perpetual Light', ibid.
• — 'My Lord's Man', ibid.
• — 'Earthly Uses', ibid.
• Larbalestier, Justine, 'Where did you Sleep Last Night?', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• Learner, Tobsha, 'Virgin', Tremble.
• — 'The Root', ibid.
• — 'Custodian', ibid.
• — 'Bat', ibid.
• Livings, Martin J., 'Wood Whispers', Fables and Reflections 6, Apr 2004.
• — 'Art of Suffering', Ticonderoga Online, Mar 2004.
• — 'Armageddon For Dummies', Antipodean 75, Aug 2004.
• Love, Rosaleen, 'Essence of Ismay', Best Stories Under the Sun.
• Luckett, Dave, 'Making a Difference', Oceans of the Mind, issue 10, Dec 2003.
• Lyall, Andrew, 'After the Beautiful War', Antipodean SF 71, Apr 2004.
• Maclean, Kevin, 'When Dragons Dream', Summoned to Destiny.
• Macrae, Andrew, 'The Superb Grace of the Steel Beam, The Delicacy of Reinforced Concrete', ORB 6, June 2004.
• McHugh, Ian, 'The Alchemical Automaton Blues', ASIM 15, Nov 2004.
• McKenna, Claire, 'Unreal City', Borderlands 3, Mar 2004.
• McKenna, Claire & Haines, Paul, 'Warchalking', Agog! Smashing Stories.
• McKenzie, Chuck, 'Retail Therapy', ORB 6, June 2004.
• Nix, Garth, 'Endings', Gothic.
• Payne, Ben, 'Boys', Encounters.
• Read, Nigel, 'The Tenth Tower', Visions, June 2004.
• — 'Overnight Rental', Visions, June 2004.
• Thornton, Alinta, 'The Healing Soup of Cho-Chou Village', ORB 6, June 2004.
• —, 'Terraforming Lily', The Between Space.
• Warren, Kaaron, 'Al's Iso Bar', Alsiso Project.
• — 'Guarding the Mound', Encounters.
• Webb, Janeen, 'Red City', Synergy.
• — 'A Faust Films Production', Little Red Riding Hood.
• Westwood, Kim, 'Stella's Transformation', Encounters.