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When Talie Helene told me in a Canberra pub that she had a new copy of Ticonderoga Press’s Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2011, I laid my last twenty bucks on the table, sight unseen. The first of the volume was such a diversely satisfying collection of recently published stories by Australian writers that there was no chance I was going to miss out on Part Two.And what a collection it is. As chunky as a novel, what the current Year’s Best shows is how integrated the Horror and Fantasy genres hav...
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A wonderful book with beautifully written stories that would be perfect for anyone who is a fan of the Horror/fantasy genres!
I was pleasantly surprised by this anthology. Australian speculative fiction is up there with the world's best and the best here would fit amongst the best anywhere. That being said there were a couple stories (largely from the horror section) that didn't feel as strong. There are some big/ emerging big names here eg Sara Douglas, Terry Dowling, Margaret Mahy, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Lee Battersby and Kaaron Waaren My three favourites, which I've already reread, were Reading Coffee by Panegyres, M...
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the AA are over.