Aurealis #125

by Dirk Strasser (Editor), Craig Blane, Mike Adamson

Thumbs up to Aurealis #125! Dirk Strasser explores the differences between reading and listening to ebooks when it comes to fiction. Join us to savour Craig Blane’s fun SF/Western hybrid ‘Drink with the Dead’. Be transported by the rich enchantment of Mike Adamson’s ‘The Witch who Wove Dreams’. And don’t leave before the bitter end as we watch an employee’s sad and frightening decline under the weight of Laurence Barratt-Manning’s ‘Data’. Amy Laurens looks at “Worldbuilding: Using Maps To Build Stories”, Eugen Bacon chills out with Dunedin fantasy author, Kura Carpenter; and Lachlan Walter explores “The (not so Sudden) Rise of World Science Fiction”. Our reviews include Peripheral Visions by Robert Hood, Prisoncorp Orphancorp #3 by Marlee J Ward, The Rich Man’s House by Andrew McGahan, Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCartney, and The Wayfarers Trilogy by Becky Chambers.

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Published October 6, 2019

About the author

Dirk Strasser’s historical fantasy Conquist, set in the dying days of the Inca Empire, won a Silver Medal in the Coffee Pot Book Club Book Of The Year Award and was a finalist in the Best Fantasy Novel category of the Aurealis Awards. His screenplay version of Conquist was a featured finalist in the Creative World Awards.

Zenith, Equinox, and Eclipse, his epic Books Of Ascension fantasy trilogy inspired by the mysticism of old Tibet, was published in English and German, and his middle grade urban fantasy Graffiti was published by Scholastic.

Dirk has won a Ditmar Award for professional achievement, his story “The Doppelgänger Effect” appeared in the World Fantasy Award-Winning anthology Dreaming Down Under, and his short stories have been translated into several languages, many of which have been collected in Stories of the Sand.

He is the longtime co-editor and co-publisher of Aurealis, Australia’s premier fantasy and science fiction magazine, and the founder of the Aurealis Awards. He has been a high school teacher, a writer of best-selling textbooks, and a publishing manager.