Aurealis #132

by Dirk Strasser (Editor), Stephen Higgins (Editor), Michael Pryor (Editor)

To celebrate CoNZealand, the 78th World Science Fiction Convention, Aurealis has published this all-New Zealand issue. There are short stories by New Zealand’s top science fiction and fantasy authors, articles on the history and current state of NZ speculative fiction, and reviews of 26 recently-released books by New Zealanders that should be on your reading list!

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Published July 1, 2020

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

[MH · Rating 3 out of 5]

One good story - "Arache's Web", and a couple of OK ones, plus some interesting essays. Simon Litten and Sean McMullen's overview of the history of NZ SF is interesting; Marie Hodgkinson's hype-piece a bit less so, I think. Overall it was worth reading.