Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Original Australian Fantasy

by Russell B. Farr (Editor), Juliet Marillier (Contributor), Lucy Sussex (Contributor)

Original novellas by Juliet Marillier, Lucy Sussex, Joanne Anderton, Cat Sparks, Stephanie Gunn, Angela Rega, and Susan Wardle. Seven original novellas from some of Australia’s premier fantasy writers. In these pages you’ll find trolls and angels, princes and puritans, cats and captives, and master crafters of materials and machines.

Contents
Beautiful / Juliet Marillier
Lady Brilliana / Lucy Sussex
I Almost Went to the Library Last Night / Joanne Anderton
And the Ship Sails On / Cat Sparks
Pinion / Stephanie Gunn
With This Needle I Thee Thread / Angela Rega
Shatterglass / Susan Wardle

Genres: Fantasy, Anthologies, Speculative Fiction, Novella, Short Stories, Urban Fantasy

274 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2018

About the author

Russell B. Farr is the founding editor of Ticonderoga Publications and has published almost thirty titles since 1996. His recent anthology, Belong, explores the concepts of home and migration. In 1999 he established ticon4, now Australia’s longest running semi-professional science fiction webzine. Previous works as editor include the award-winning anthology Fantastic Wonder Stories, award-winning collections Magic Dirt: the Best of Sean Williams, and Angela Slatter’s The Girl With No Hands and other tales, and Australia’s first work-themed anthology The Workers’ Paradise.

As editor of Ticonderoga Publications, Russell has overseen the publication of landmark story collections by Simon Brown, Stephen Dedman, Terry Dowling, Angela Slatter, Stephen Utley, Lucy Sussex, Lisa L Hannett, Justina Robson, and Kaaron Warren.

In 2010 Russell shaved all his hair off to raise over $2000 for the Eden Monaro Cancer Support Group. You can view the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh0w_9...

Russell lives in Greenwood, Western Australia, with his wonderful fiance Liz Grzyb, a sociopathic cat and a somewhat neurotic dog.

- excerpted from http://www.punkrocker1991.net/bio/

Reviews

[Liz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some amazing stories here!

[Tehani · Rating 4 out of 5]

One story I found unreadable but the others are all of exceptional quality and deserving of the swathe of awards they've been shortlisted for. Wonderful stories by some of Australia's best writers.

[Steven Paulsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this fantastic collection of novellas. It’s hard to single out one or two favourites because they are all strong, but very different stories. Highly recommend for spec fic readers.

[Gwyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Most of the stories in this collection were pretty bad, either silly plots, or just not well-written. But I bought the book for Juliet Marillier's story "Beautiful", and she never lets me down.

[Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful / Juliet Marillier