Magic Dirt: the best of Sean Williams

Winner of the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Collection.

Over 132,000 words of the best fiction by best-selling writer Sean Williams.

Introduction by John Harwood.

Contents

A Map of the Mines of Barnath
Ghosts of the Fall
The Soap Bubble
The Magic Dirt Experiment
Night of the Dolls (with Shane Dix)
Atrax (with Simon Brown)
End of the World
The Seventh Letter
Evermore
The Butterfly Merchant
Reluctant Misty & the House on Burden Street
The Girl-Thing
Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie (Among the Beautiful Living Dead)
Passing the Bone
A View Before Dying
Team Sharon
White Christmas
Masque of Agamemnon (with Simon Brown)

Editions

Limited Hardcover Edition, 50 copies signed by all contributors. RRP $50 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-6-7. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Regular Trade Edition. RRP $30 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-6-7. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Edited by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans

In this anthology, Australia's finest speculative writers imagine what the future holds for the Australian worker.

Nominated for 2 Ditmar Awards

"His Lipstick Minx", Kaaron Warren, Best Short Story
Best Collected Work

Contents

"Ajudication", Simon Brown
"The Working Dead of Heehaw's Australia", Jenny Schwartz
"Right to Work", Cat Sparks
"Winning Ways", D.W. Walker
"Night with the Stars Askew", Rjurik Davidson
"Farmers John Pass Go", Bill Congreve
"Magda's Career Choice", Rowena Cory Daniells
"MTP", George Ivanoff
"His Lipstick Minx", Kaaron Warren
"Seahoney", Anna Tambour
"Black and Bitter", Nathan Burrage
"Flystrike", David J. Kane
"Rapturama", Matthew Chrulew & Roland Boer
"After The Choice", Robin Hillard
"Milk Across the Nation", Ashley Arnold
"Pseudomelia of the Masses", Robert Hood
"Arianne's Event", Susan Wardle
"Networking for Dummies", Dirk Flinthart

Cover design by Amanda Rainey.

Editions

Limited Edition, 50 copies signed by the editors. RRP $50 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-7-2. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Trade Edition. RRP $20 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-7-2. Available from indiebooksonline.com

edited by Russell B Farr

The ambitious first anthology from Ticonderoga Publications. Featuring stories from some of Australia's rising stars and a handful of contributions from respected veterans, this anthology marks the publisher's 10th Anniversary.

Winner Aurealis Awards 2007

"A Scar for Leida", Deborah Biancotti, Best Young Adult Short Story

Nominated for 2 Ditmar Awards:

"A Scar for Leida", Deborah Biancotti, Best Short Story
Best Collected Work

Nominated for the Australian Shadows Award

"There Was Darkness", Martin Livings

Nominated for 5 Aurealis Awards:

"Lonely as life", Simon Brown, Best Science Fiction Short Story
"Arctica", Cat Sparks, Best Science Fiction Short Story
"A Scar for Leida", Deborah Biancotti, Best Young Adult Short Story
"Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon", Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Best Young Adult Short Story
"Cast Off", Tracey Rolfe, Best Young Adult Short Story

Contents

Steven Utley, "The Can-Opener"
Kylie Seluka, "Burning Bright"
Martin Livings, "There Was Darkness"
Patty Jansen, "Bigger Fish"
Rowena Cory Daniells, "Soulshaper"
Rob Hood, "Luxury Goods"
Nick Evans, "Goon of the Month in Lagerland"
Sonia Marcon, "Phantom Limbs"
Peter MacGregor, "Sandcastles, Spaceships and Worms"
Simon Brown, "Lonely as Life"
Deborah Biancotti, "A Scar for Leida"
Geoffrey Maloney, "'P' is for Power Station"
George Ivanoff, "The Colonist and the Choirmaster"
Shane Jiraiya Cummings, "Yamabushi Kaidan and the Smoke Dragon"
Deborah McDonnell, "Brolga Dreaming"
Marty Young, "The Wildflowers"
Tracey Rolfe, "Cast Off"
Cat Sparks, "Arctica"
Penelope Love, "Tell Him I Too Have Known"
Kate Eltham, "Tam Likes Green Bananas"

Editions

Limited Edition, 50 copies signed by all contributors. RRP $50 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-8-9. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Regular Trade Edition. RRP $25 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-8-9. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Simon Brown

Ten stories. One legend.

Diomedes, Paris, Helen, Achilles, Agamemnon, Cassandra and Odysseus all feature in this collection of Simon Brown's acclaimed "Troy stories". Since the early 1980s Simon Brown has engaged readers with a series of alternate takes on the Trojan War. "Love and Paris", "Imagining Ajax", "Why my wife left me, and other stories, by Diomedes" and the brilliant "The masque of Agamemnon" are collected here for the first time, alongside lesser known tales and the original novella, "The cup of Nestor".

Collection features an introduction by Garth Nix, author of Sabriel, Abhorsen and the Keys to the Kingdom series.

Contents

The mark of Thetis
The dreaming seas beneath Cassandra
The dissections of Machaon
The masque of Agamemnon (with Sean Williams)
Love and Paris
Why my wife left me, and other stories, by Diomedes
A new song for Odysseus
The cup of Nestor - original to collection
Imagining Ajax
Afterword - Imagining Troy by Russell B. Farr
Appendix - The return of Ideomeneus

Editions

Limited Hardcover Edition, 50 copies signed by all contributors. RRP $50 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-6-5. Sold out.

Regular Trade Edition. RRP $20 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9586856-6-5. Available from indiebooksonline.com

2nd edition of sold out 1999 collection, first published by Ticonderoga Publications.

Contents

Foreword: Van Ikin
Introduction: Flogging a Dead Horse, Sean Williams & Mark Radium
"The Lady of Situations"
"Amendment"
"Never Seen by Waking Eyes"
"A Single Shadow"
"Transit"
"Double Action"
"Founding Fathers"
"Salvation"
"The Godfather Paradox"
"A Sort of Walking Miracle"
"The Vision of a Vanished Good"
"Bestseller"
"From Whom All Blessings Flow"
Afterword: Twenty Views of Hokusai, Robin Pen

Editions

Hardcover Edition. RRP $50 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-7-4. Available from indiebooksonline.com

Regular Trade Edition. RRP $30 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-8-1.

Gretchen Rix writes a fantastically positive review of Steven Utley's collection Ghost Seas at her blog:

Unforgettable and disturbing stories here. Be warned. They’ll make you think... Ghost Seas is a short story collection of literary science fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate history (and even a Western) by Steven Utley. If you like reading you’re going to love this collection.

You can read the full review here gretchenrix.com/steven-utleys-ghost-seas