Dreaming Down Under: Book One

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From the wild side of Australian fiction. The first volume of thirty one original stories from Australia's best known writers of speculative fiction. Contributors include, Sean Williams, Simon Brown, Isobelle Carmody, Jane Routley, Rosaleen Love, Stephen Paulsen, Terry Dowling, Andrew Enstice, Damien Broderick and Stephen Dedman among others. This is a showcase of the very best contemporary ld-side fiction those stories that have an edge of horror, or fantasy, or magical realism) and the best genre fiction - science fiction, fantasy, and horror

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Jack Dann is a multiple award-winning author and editor with over seventy books to his credit, including The Man Who Melted, The Silent, The Rebel and the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral. Dreaming Down-Under, edited by Jack and his partner, Dr Janeen Webb, was the benchmark by which other anthologies are measured, and the book was a winner of the World Fantasy Award in 1999. Jack Dann lives in Melbourne and commutes back and forth to Los Angeles and New York. His website is www.jackdann.com Janeen Webb holds a PhD in literature from the University of Newcastle. A lecturer in literature at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Janeen is also co-editor, with Jack Dann, of the anthology Dreaming Down-Under, which won the 1999 international World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, as well as the 1999 Ditmar (Australian Science Fiction Award). She has won both the Aurealis and the Ditmar awards for her short stories. She splits her time between Melbourne and her country retreat in Foster in South Gippsland.