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The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection

Rob Gerrand

First published 2004
Publisher Black Inc.
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Juan Ford
Pages xx+615
Price A$24.95
ISBN 1863953019


- No statement of edition or printing on copyright page.
- "Cover artwork: Juan Ford" on back cover.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Infant Prodigy F. B. Bryning Short Story
12 The Cage A. Bertram Chandler Short Story
23 Debt of Lassor Norma Hemming Short Story
38 The Doorway Wynne N. Whiteford Short Story
55 Parky David Rome Short Story
62 All Laced Up George Whitley Short Story
73 The Case of the Perjured Planet Martin Loran Novelette
115 There Is a Crooked Man Jack Wodhams Novella
166 The Final Weapon Damien Broderick Short Story
178 Dancing Gerontius Lee Harding Short Story
192 The Man of Slow Feeling Michael Wilding Short Story
198 Re-Deem the Time David J. Lake Short Story
211 In a Petri Dish Upstairs George Turner Novelette
239 The Chance Peter Carey Novelette
269 The Paradigm Randal Flynn Novelette
299 Inhabiting the Interspaces Philippa C. Maddern Short Story
313 Odd Man Search Cherry Wilder Short Story
326 The Government in Exile Paul Collins Short Story
335 The Total Devotion Machine Rosaleen Love Short Story
342 The Caress Greg Egan Novelette
366 Red Ochre Lucy Sussex Novelette
384 The Soap Bubble Sean Williams Novelette
420 Angel Thing Petrina Smith Novelette
434 The Sword of God Russell Blackford Novelette
452 Niagara Falling Jack Dann & Janeen Webb Novelette
475 A Walk-On Part in the War Stephen Dedman Short Story
484 He Tried to Catch the Light Terry Dowling Novelette
505 The Boy Who Didn't Yearn Margo Lanagan Short Story
517 The Diamond Pit Jack Dann Novella
580 Tower of Wings Sean McMullen Novelette
607 Notes on Contributors (The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection) uncredited Essay
vii Foreword (The Best Australian Science Fiction: A Fifty Year Collection) Rob Gerrand Essay
xiii Australian Science Fiction: A Feast of Wonder Russell Blackford Essay