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This year’s Ditmar nominations (for works published in the 2009 calendar year) are now open and you can nominate your favourite works on the online nomination form. In case you’re having trouble remembering which fantastic works from last year you’d like to nominate, we have a few excellent suggestions for you: Best Novella Category Available now for mail order at UK independent press PS Publishing is Rjurik Davidson’s debut collection, The Library of Forgotten Books. This attractive hardcover contains a rich collection of Rjurik’s darkly atmospheric stories including four new pieces. An alumnus of the inaugural Clarion South, Davidson has been described as a ‘lyrical fabulist’ by Jack Dann and [...] The recently announced line-up for the 2010 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror edited by by Bram Stoker and international Horror Guild award-winning editor Paula Guran includes Margo Lanagan’s spellbinding novella from X6, ‘Sea-Hearts’. Fellow Australian author Deborah Biancotti’s story ‘Diamond Shell’ from her debut collection A Book of Endings (Twelfth Planet Press) also made the [...] The number of science fiction novels penned by Australians and published each year is vanishingly small, particularly when compared to the bookshelf-metres of fantasy and paranormal romance appearing in the same period. But it’s not all bad news for SF. The genre is infinitely flexible and most recently it’s been cropping up in mainstream publishing lists [...] The first published book by a new Australian author is always something to celebrate. While Sara Creasy was born in England and now lives in Arizona, she did spend quite a few years in Australia and – most importantly – worked as Associate Editor for Aurealis Magazine during that time. That’s quite enough in our book [...] The Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction podcast is a monthly showcase of the best Australian Science Fiction read by the authors who created it. TISF 20 is up now, free on the TISF website (www.tisf.com.au) as well as on iTunes. The latest podcast features Aurealis Award winning author Peter M Ball reading his dark fantasy ‘Black Dog’ and [...] Here at coeur de lion we embrace the new forms of publishing media wholeheartedly. So it’s a pleasant surprise to see other Australian ‘content producers’ do the same. Tansy Rayner Roberts’s highly anticipated Creature Court fantasy trilogy has just hit the bookshelves with book one, Power and Majesty, and over at creaturecourt.com, Tansy has just commenced a [...] |
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