Aurealis #47

by Dirk Strasser (Editor, Contributor), Jason Nahrung, Jenny Blackford

Aurealis, the Australian magazine of fantasy, science fiction and horror, has been publishing continuously since 1990. Aurealis #47 features an exhilarating voyage into ancient Greek mythology by Jenny Blackford, some unnerving Australian outback horror by Jason Nahrung, and a thought-provoking article from Crisetta MacLeod on why one book is never enough in fantasy, plus news, reviews and more.

58 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 12, 2012

About the author

Dirk Strasser has won multiple Australian Publisher Association Awards and a Ditmar for Best Professional Achievement. His mythic fantasy series, The Books of Ascension, has been republished by Macmillan Momentum, this time including Eclipse – The Lost Book of Ascension for the first time in English. His novels and short stories have been translated into a number of languages. He also founded the Aurealis Awards and has co-edited and co-published Aurealis magazine for over twenty years.

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating: 4 stars.

Aurealis is Australia's longest running small-press science-fiction and fantasy magazine. This issue from 2012 features two short stories: the first is a retelling of the story where Medea murders her brother, while the second presents an alternate version of the Australian outback where farmers are menaced by werewolves.

The two short stories are followed by an essay pondering trilogies, which is mostly listing Australian spec-fic authors (and Brandon Sanderson) who, as of 2012, had written 3+ book series. The rest of the magazine is a series of media reviews, though these all felt a little brief.