Synopses & Reviews
Despite not having been published outside of Australia, Dreaming Down-Under won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and stories from its pages have appeared in many Year's Best anthologies. Now we can enjoy this excellent anthology without a round-the-globe trip.
Internationally acclaimed author Harlan Ellison recently declared that this is the Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction. Dreaming Down-Under showcases this Golden Age with thirty-one exciting original stories by both acknowledged masters and hot new writers from -- where else? -- Down-Under.
Synopsis
The Very Best of Australian Speculative Fiction!
Russell Blackford
Paul Brandon
Damien Broderick
Simon Brown
Isobelle Carmody
Paul Collins
Stephen Dedman
Sara Douglass
Terry Dowling
Andrew Enstice
Kerry Greenwood
Robert Hood
David J. Lake
Chris Lawson
Rowena Cory Lindquist
Rosaleen Love
Sean McMullen
Ian Nichols
Steven Paulsen
Jane Routley
Cecily Scutt
Aaron Sterns
Dirk Strasser
Lucy Sussex
Norman Talbot
George Turner
Wynne Whiteford
Cherry Wilder
Sean Williams
Tess Williams
About the Author
Jack Dann has written or edited over fifty books, including the international bestseller The M
emory Cathedral, which is published in over ten languages and was #1 on The Age Bestseller list.
The San Francisco Chronicle called it "A grand accomplishment,"
Kirkus Reviews thought it was "An impressive accomplishment," and
True Review said, "Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it." His novel
The Silent has been compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn;
Library Journal chose it as one of their 'Hot Picks' and wrote: "This is narrative storytelling at its best-so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended."
Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and Mark Twain. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (twice), and the Premios Gilgames de Narrativa Fantastica award. He has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight). His novel, Bad Medicine (retitled Counting Coup in the US), has been described by The Courier Mail as "perhaps the best road novel since the Easy Rider Days." His latest book is the retrospective short story collection Jubilee, which The West Australian called "a celebration of the talent of a remarkable storyteller." He is also the co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology of Australian stories, Dreaming Down-Under, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999.
Jack Dann lives in Melbourne, Australia and "commutes" back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.