The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Two

Edited by Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt

Paperback 195 mm x 128 mm (73/4 in x 5 in), 286 pages.
ISBN 0-9757736-1-5
RRP $19.95 (inc GST)
(Published June 2006)

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Recommended Reading: 2005

• anonymous, 'New Friends and Stranger Companies', Consensual a Trois
• Barnes, Chris, 'Big Day', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Barry Rosenberg, 'Out of the Shadows', Specusphere
• Battersby, Lee, 'Love Me Electric', Consensual a Trois
• — 'Gunslinger', The Devil in Brisbane
• Biancotti, Deborah, 'Summa Seltzer Missive', Ticonderoga 6
• Bishop, K. J., 'Between the Covers', The Devil in Brisbane
• Blum, Jonathan, 'The Evil Little Mother and the Tragic Old Bat', Wildthyme On Top
• Browne, Adam, 'The Heart of Saturday Night', Lennox Ave
• Browne, Adam & Dixon, John, 'Ringcycle', Aurealis 33-35
• Cain, James, 'Monsters', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 18
• — 'The Ride', Dark Krypt
• — 'Happy Birthday Pinko', Fantastical Visions III
• Carroll, David, 'Footprint', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Cavanagh, Steven, 'Moving Dad', Shadowed Realms 6
• Chan, Kylie, 'Child Support', The Devil in Brisbane
• Coverdale, Tom, 'The Maker', Southerly
• Crabtree, Deborah, 'There Is A Light', Shadowbox
• Cummings, Shane Jiraiya, 'Revision is Murder', Simulacrum 11
• Dann, Jack, 'Dharma Bums', Postcripts 4
• Dann, Jack & Malzberg, Barry, 'The Starry Night', www.scifi.com/scifiction
• Dartnall, Terry, 'Ones and Zeroes', Neverary
• — 'The Santa-Fe', The Café Irreal
• Dedman, Stephen, 'Static Song', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 18
• — 'Coup de Grace', Borderlands 4
• — 'Realms of the Unreal', Westerly 50
• Dix, Shane, 'Dark Windows', Aurealis 33-35
• Dowling, Terry, 'The Eye in Room 16', Shadowed Realms 6
• Doyle, Aidan, 'On the Bones', Borderlands 5
• Duffy, Steve, 'The Kindness of Strangers', Journeys
• — 'Harry's Bench', Journeys
• Flinthart, Dirk, 'Monochrome for Two', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 20
• Ford, Adam, 'Seven Dates That Were Ruined By Giant Monsters, Or Why I Really Need To Get Out of This City', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Fordham, Anthony, 'Aspect Hunter', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Geoffrey Maloney, 'The Dust Beneath Her Feet', Aurealis 33-35
• Harland, Richard, 'The Greater Death of Saito Saku', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• — 'The Empty Child', Shadowed Realms 6
• Hoge, Robert, 'And the Deep Blue Sea', The Devil in Brisbane
• Ikin, Van, 'Quietly Dead, Quietly Buried', Westerly 50
• Jamieson, Trent, 'Porcelain Salli', Aurealis 33-35
• — 'Tumble', Ideomancer 4
• — 'Downpour', Shadowed Realms 7
• JB, 'Going Home', ABC Radio Regional Production Fund Short Story Project
• Jones, Heather, 'Late Again', NSWWC Flash Fiction
• Kelso, Sylvia, 'Slick', Antipodes Vol 18, No 4
• Kemble, Gary, 'The House', Borderlands 4
• Kerslake, Richard, 'Degrees of Separation', Borderlands 5
• Lennox, Anne, 'Deep Water and Dust', NSWWC Flash Fiction
• Livings, Martin, 'Playtime', Shadowbox
• — 'Killing Time', Robots and Time
• Love, Penelope, 'The Unlawful Priest of Todesfall', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Love, Rosaleen, 'Wanderer 8', The Elastic Book of Numbers
• Lynch, Chris, 'The Pluripotentiary', The Devil in Brisbane
• Mancia, Tania, 'Requiescat in Pace', NSWWC Flash Fiction
• Manton, Karen, 'Phoebe's Scar', Best Australian Stories 2005
• McArthur, Maxine, 'Does the Spearmint Lose its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight', The CSFG Gastronomicon
• McKenzie, Chuck, 'All I Want for Christmas', Confessions of a Pod Person
• — 'Like A Bug Underfoot', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Millard, Glenda, 'Brave of the Mincabu', Kids' Night In 2
• Nix, Garth, 'Charlie Rabbit', Kid's Night In
• Peek, Ben, 'The Glass Elephant's Prison', Magistria, Realm of the Sorcerer
• Pitchforth, Richard, 'Sharp', The Devil in Brisbane
• Roberts, Vance, 'Old Soa'r, Specusphere
• Sivakumar, Tharsan, 'Judging the Creator', Antipodean SF 84
• Smith, Derek, 'Rectilinear', Retribution
• Smith, Kellyanne, 'The Hungry Ghosts', Antipodean SF 89
• Sparks, Cat, 'Historical Perspective', Simulacrum 11
• — 'Macchiato Lane', Ticonderoga 5
• Spencer, Beth, 'Pandora on the Eve of Destruction', Specusphere
• Spurling, Richard, 'Grave', From the Asylum
• — 'The Long Jog', HorrorMasters 23
• Sullivan, Andrew, 'Notes Concerning Events at the Ray Harryhausen Memorial Home for Retired Actors', Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales
• Tambour, Anna, 'The Emperor's Backscratcher', Infinity Plus
• Tan, Shaun, 'The Water Buffalo', Mitch? Four
• Triffit, Lyn, 'The Memory of Breathing', Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 17
• Wajnberg, Adam, 'Man Bites Crab', Mitch? Four
• Ward, Kyla, 'The Oracle of Brick and Bone', Borderlands 5
• Wardle, Susan, 'Baby Time', Antipodean SF 91
• Warren, Kaaron, 'The Grinding House', The Grinding House
• — 'Smoko', The Grinding House
• — 'The Smell of Mice', The Grinding House
• Westwood, Kim, 'Haberdashery', The Devil in Brisbane
• Whalley, Jo-Ann, 'The Seasonal Collector', Borderlands 4
• Williams, Tess, 'How Green Was Their Love', Borderlands 4