Aurealis #155

by Dirk Strasser (Editor), Baden M. Chant, Greg Foyster

Take a deep dive into Aurealis #155 with Baden M Chant’s ethereal, and elegiac ‘The Winding-Sheet’, Greg Foyster’s futuristic reimagining in ‘Shitmining’, and the bizarre ecosystem of Jared Millet’s ‘Bigger Fish’. Then explore the Soul and Emotional Intelligence in Humans and Androids, the Appeal of Time Travel and the use of colour in Titane.

71 pages, ebook

Published October 1, 2022

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

[H Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

The last two short stories are so good. I’d read novel-length versions of them, and have no notes. The first story felt half baked and like a waste of time, though; it could be better if it was developed further.