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Aurealis #60    by Michael Pryor (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 14860 words. Language: English. Published by Chimaera Publications  on May 6, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

The best in Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, featuring 'Betrayal' by Marta Salek, an exotic and magical tale of elsewhere, and the coolly stylish 'Catspaw' by James Bradley. Plus the best news, reviews, and interviews in the world of Australian Speculative Fiction. Miss it not.
Aurealis #59    by Michael Pryor (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 12860 words. Language: English. Published by Chimaera Publications  on April 1, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

Aurealis #59, edited by Michael Pryor, features the startling and exotic world of Emmet O'Cuana's 'Tiresias: A 'blood-punk' fantasy' and Douglas Fry's subtle, challenging 'A Brilliant Fire'. Kate Forstyh delves into the history of fairy tales, our reviewers opine on the latest publications, and the best SF news is yours to contemplate.
Aurealis #61    by Stephen Higgins (Editor)
Price: $2.99 USD. 14050 words. Language: English. Published by Chimaera Publications  on June 4, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

The best in Australian Fantasy and Science Fiction, featuring 'Restless' by Sophie Masson, and 'Kernel' by Sean Monaghan. Plus the best news, reviews, and interviews in the world of Australian Speculative Fiction. Your monthly fix of all that is good in speculative fiction.
Space Marines!    by Brian Henley
Price: $1.99 USD. 6310 words. Language: English. Published on May 17, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.

Pure, unmitigated, unapologetic space action, written by a guy who's actually been to war! Join a wise-cracking Space Marine and his crew of sarcastic malcontents as they brave lethal peril to murder strangers they truly hate. Roar!
Hide and Seek    by Meyari McFarland
Price: $2.99 USD. 10200 words. Language: English. Published on April 6, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

Aravel had planned on knitting his mother socks but Anwyn's temper tantrum made concentration impossible. Instead, he proposed a Clan-wide game of Hide and Seek through the Dana Clan house. While hiding Aravel saw the opportunity to right a wrong and make Uncle Athol and his best friend Ruark happy. All it would take was convincing Mother that a marriage would seal the trade deal perfectly.
Fight Smarter    by Meyari McFarland
Price: $2.99 USD. 8020 words. Language: English. Published on January 31, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.

Dana Gavin was painfully aware that he was being groomed for a powerful position in his matriarchal clan despite his gender. He hadn't thought he wanted it until he caught his sisters Gwen and Anwyn bloody from a fight with Anwyn's rival Siobhan. The fight threatened their clan but if Gavin could ride the tides of the confrontation correctly he thought he could save them all from the Delbhana.
The Case of the Poisoned House and Other Xenopsychiatric Studies    by M.C.A. Hogarth
Price: $1.99 USD. 9690 words. Language: English. Published on April 3, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

(3.00 from 1 review)
Jahir and Vasiht'h are xenopsychiatrists: specialists in counseling aliens on the varied problems they might face living on a multicultural starbase. This volume collects eight vignettes and one short story ranging from a solar sailor recovering from a crash to an orphaned alien struggling with adoption issues. Come tour the Alliance, therapist-style!
For Want of a Nail    by Mary Robinette Kowal
Price: $0.99 USD. 12340 words. Language: English. Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

0.75 star(4.75 from 4 reviews)
This is the 2011 Hugo award-winning short story, "For Want of a Nail" with some bonus content. Read the author's notes, along with the original first draft which has a completely different plot.
Inviral Part 1    by Christina Moss
Price: $0.99 USD. 14580 words. Language: English. Published on March 19, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.

Inviral is the continuing story of Juliette Greenmoss whose life is flipped upside-down when she falls in love with an interplanetary rock star prince named Seth.
Amazing & Waiting: Two Novelettes    by Jemma Chase
Price: $2.99 USD. 14230 words. Language: English. Published on November 20, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Two novelettes of dark science fiction and fantasy about love, sacrifice, and the costs, and rewards, of betrayal.