Gilgamesh Press is pleased to announce that its long-awaited Ishtar collection is on track for release in November 2011!The talent-packed anthology now has a gorgeous cover to match the stellar content!Ishtar.Powerful, sexy, and very, very deadly.The 5 Loves of IshtarKaaron WarrenFollow the path that the goddess Ishtar takes through the eyes of her most devoted worshippers, her washerwomen. Sharokin, Atur, Ninlil, Shamiran, Ninevah and Ashurina share in their goddess’ loves, losses and triumphs, as kingdoms rise and fall in the Land of Rivers.And the Dead Shall Outnumber the LivingDeborah BiancottiIn modern-day Sydney, male prostitutes are dying. Their bones have turned to paste and their bodies are jelly. As Detective Adrienne Garner investigates the deaths, she finds rumours of strange cults and old gods whose powers threaten her city and, ultimately, her world.The Sleeping and the DeadCat SparksDr. Anna remembers little of her life before the war, merely traces of the…
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Congratulations to Margo Lanagan and Jonathan Strahan for their respective World Fantasy awards. Go Aussies! Full list of winners and nominees here.
Sprawl
Sprawl is an exciting new original anthology, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth Planet Press, that will give readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs.My post-apocalypse Wollongong story All The Love in the World has already given the editor three nightmares, apparently. I’m hoping to squeeze a few more in before Aussiecon. Do the clicky thing to buy it here.
Eidolon
Finished reading Eidolon 1, eds Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy Byrne. The best stories IMHO are: The Revenant by Lucy Sussex Gin by Holly Phillips A Fine Magic by Margo Lanagan Cassandra’s Hands by Kim Westwood Trimalchios Chamber Pot by William Eakin Hieronymus Bosch by Chris Lawson The Dying Light by Deborah Biancotti Leviathan by Simon Brown Hope there’s gonna be an Eidolon 2