Step up, as close as you dare… …to a place at the edge of sanity, where cicadas scritch through balmy summer nights, at the edge of town, where the cell-phone coverage is decidedly dodgy, at the edge of despair, where ten darushas will get you a vodka lime and a ring-side seat, at the edge of the universe, where time stops but space goes on... From the brink of civilisation, the fringe of...
The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of science fiction and fantasy writing in Aotearoa New Zealand. Table of Contents: New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw KÅhuia, by T Te Tau Death confetti, by Zoë Meager For Want of Human Parts, by Casey Lucas How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster...
For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago...