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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 in this hemisphere 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.

Table of Contents:

• What Stands for a Preface - essay by Harlan Ellison
• Introduction - essay by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
• Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead) - novelette by Sean Williams
• The Dancing Floor - novelette by Cherry Wilder
• Descent - short story by Cecily Scutt
• The Soldier in the Machine - novelette by Russell Blackford
• Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies - short story by Lucy Sussex
• The Womb - novelette by Damien Broderick
• A Walk-On Part in the War - short story by Stephen Dedman
• Wired Dreaming - short story by Paul Collins
• The Body Politic - short story by Tess Williams
• The Truth About Weena - novelette by David J. Lake
• The Marsh Runners - short story by Paul Brandon
• Prelude to a Nocturne - novelette by Rowena Cory Lindquist
• Real Men - short story by Rosaleen Love
• The Latest Dream I Ever Dreamed - short story by Norman Talbot
• Ma Rung - short story by Steven Paulsen
• Dream, Until God Burns - short story by Andrew Enstice
• Night of the Wandjina - short story by Wynne Whiteford
• To Avalon - short story by Jane Routley
• He Tried to Catch the Light - novelette by Terry Dowling
• The Third Rail - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Jetsam - short story by Kerry Greenwood
• And Now Doth Time Waste Me - novella by George Turner
• Afterword (to "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" in Dreaming Down-Under) - essay by Judith Raphael Buckrich
• Afterword (to "And Now Doth Time Waste Me" in Dreaming Down-Under) - essay by Bruce Gillespie
• The Man Who Lost His Shadow - short story by Isobelle Carmody
• Unborn Again - short story by Chris Lawson
• The Evil Within - novelette by Sara Douglass
• Two Recipes for Magic Beans - short story by Rosaleen Love
• The Doppelgänger Effect - short story by Dirk Strasser
• Tamed - short story by Robert Hood
• Queen of Soulmates - novelette by Sean McMullen
• The Last Dance - short story by Ian Nichols
• With Clouds at Our Feet - short story by Simon Brown

Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2008) - essay by Jack Dann
• Old Friends - (2008) - short story by Garth Nix
• A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead - (2008) - short story by Richard Harland
• This Is My Blood - (2008) - novelette by Chris Lynch and Ben Francisco
• Nightship - (2008) - short story by Kim Westwood
• The Fooly - (2008) - short story by Terry Dowling
• Neverland Blues - (2008) - short story by Adam Browne
• The Jacaranda Wife - (2008) - short story by Angela Slatter
• The Constant Past - (2008) - short story by Sean McMullen
• The Forest - (2008) - short story by Kim Wilkins
• Robots & Zombies, Inc. - (2008) - short story by Lucy Sussex
• This Way to the Exit - (2008) - novelette by Sara Douglass
• Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo - (2008) - short story by A. Bertram Chandler
• Afterword (Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo) - (2008) - essay by Paul Collins
• Lure - (2008) - short story by Paul Collins
• Empire - (2008) - novelette by Simon Brown
• Lakeside - (2008) - short story by Christopher Green
• Trolls' Night Out - (2008) - short story by Jenny Blackford
• The Rest Is Silence - (2008) - short story by Aaron Sterns
• Smoking, Waiting for the Dawn - (2008) - short story by Jason Nahrung
• The Lanes of Camberwell - (2008) - novelette by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
• Lost Arts - (2008) - novelette by Stephen Dedman
• Undead Camels Ate Their Flesh - (2008) - short story by Jason Fischer
• Europa - (2008) - short story by Cecily Scutt
• Riding on the Q-Ball - (2008) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• In from the Snow - (2008) - short story by Lee Battersby
• The Lost Property Room - (2008) - short story by Trudi Canavan
• Heere Be Monsters - (2008) - novelette by John Birmingham
• Purgatory - (2008) - short story by Rowena Cory Daniells
• Manannan's Children - (2008) - novelette by Russell Blackford
• The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross - (2008) - short story by Margo Lanagan
• Twilight in Caeli-Amur - (2008) - short story by Rjurik Davidson
• Paradise Design'd - (2008) - short story by Janeen Webb
• The New Deal - (2008) - short story by Trent Jamieson
• Conquist - (2008) - short story by Dirk Strasser
• The Last Great House of Isla Tortuga - (2008) - short story by Peter M. Ball
• Perchance to Dream - (2008) - novelette by Isobelle Carmody
• About the Editor - (2008) - essay by uncredited

World Fantasy Award-winning anthology

A celebration of Australia's current Golden Age of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magical realism. Jack Dann the multi-award-winning author and co-editor of the classic Dreaming Down-Under, the anthology that has been credited with putting Australian writing on the international map and the first Australian book to win a World Fantasy Award, has collected a wonderfully eclectic range of short fiction that showcases what our best fantasists are doing right now at this genre-bending moment in time.

Table of Contents:

• Welcome to the Golden Age: An Introduction of Sorts - (2016) - essay by Jack Dann
• Sing, My Murdered Darlings - (2016) - short story by Sean Williams
• Falling Angel - (2016) - short story by Paul Brandon
• Martian Triptych - (2016) - short story by James Bradley
• Northerner's Farewell - (2016) - short story by Rjurik Davidson
• Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel - (2016) - short story by Terry Dowling
• A Right Pretty Mate - (2016) - short story by Lisa L. Hannett
• Eromon No More - (2016) - short story by Jason Nahrung
• Luv Story - (2016) - short story by Kim Westwood
• The Luminarium Tower - (2016) - short story by Sean McMullen
• Neither Time nor Tears - (2016) - short story by Angela Slatter
• His Shining Day - (2016) - short story by Richard Harland
• The Liquid Palace - (2016) - short story by Adam Browne
• Heat Treatment - (2016) - short story by Venero Armanno
• Snowflakes All the Way Down - (2016) - short story by Rosaleen Love
• Served Cold - (2016) - novelette by Alan Baxter
• The Dog Who'd Been Dead - (2016) - short story by Anna Tambour
• Fade to Grey - (2016) - short story by Janeen Webb
• All Those Superpowers and What Are They Good For? - (2016) - short story by Garth Nix
• Burnt Sugar - (2016) - novelette by Kirstyn McDermott
• In Hornhead Wood - (2016) - short story by Kim Wilkins
• Moonshine - (2016) - novelette by Simon Brown