Edited by Russell B Farr
23 tales of interstellar wanderers, migrants, colonists, zombie refugees, interplanetary poets, fallen angels, storytellers, neighbours, first peoples, last peoples, lost peoples... people searching for a place where they belong.
113,000 words of original fiction from Australia, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, U.S.A. and Belgium.
Belong scores a recommendation in The West Australian:
This collection of science fiction stories explores what it means to belong, an appropriate theme so close to Australia Day. For many of us not born in Australia these stories strike close chords to how we feel. The stories are challenging and fascinating, interesting and compelling, alien and familiar. My favourite was Carol Ryles' "Deeper than Flesh and Closer"; I hope to see the story expanded into a series about the Glyr who live in such close communion with the Rhizome. Similarly fascinating were the characters in "Song of the Blackbird" by Sarah Totton, a familiar story about the challenges of what is written and what comes to be. For laughs though, Angela Rega's "Slow Cookin'" is entertaining and intriguing.
(Tuesday 25 /01/11)
Scary Minds gives Belong an okay 6/7 out of 10:
there's enough going on between the covers to keep most readers happy, so yeah add the book to your summer reading list and take a walk on the Sc-Fi side of the road.
You can read the fulll review here scaryminds.com/reviews/2010/book75.php
Edited by Russell B. Farr
23 tales of interstellar wanderers, migrants, colonists, zombie refugees, interplanetary poets, fallen angels, storytellers, neighbours, first peoples, last peoples, lost peoples... people searching for a place where they belong.
113,000 words of original fiction from around the world. Australia, Canada, Argentina, United Kingdom, U.S.A. and Belgium.
Contents
"Border Crossing", Penelope Love
"Mrs Estahazi", Barbara Robson
"Norumbega", Linda L. Donahue
"Ice", Zdravka Evtimova
"United". Jennifer Moore
"Rekindle the Sun", Mary E. Lowd
"The Gift", Barry Rosenberg
"Prisoner of the Faceless", Kurt Bachard
"Merpeople", Gwen Veazey
"Feather-light", George Ivanoff
"Speaking English", Stephanie Burgis
"Green, Green Grass of Homeworld", Donna Maree Hanson
"I Belong to this Red Land", Edwina Harvey
"All Tales Must End", Michelle Muenzler
"Namug", Gustavo Bondoni
"Song of the Blackbird", Sarah Totton
"A Friendly Gesture", Chet Gottfried
"Initiation", Sonia Helbig
"Slow Cookin’", Angela Rega
"The Ballad of P’toresk", Simon Petrie
"The Hollow Ones", Kylie Seluka
"Trassi Udang", Patty Jansen
"Deeper than Flesh and Closer", Carol Ryles
Editions
Limited Hardcover Edition, 100 copies signed by the editor. RRP $75 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-1-2. Available from indiebooksonline.com
Regular Trade Edition. RRP $35 AUD. ISBN 978-0-9803531-2-9.
Ticonderoga Publications
21st Century Australian Speculative Fiction
PO Box 29 Greenwood WA 6924 Australia