The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1
| First published | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Series | Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (HarperCollins) #1 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins (Australia) |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Type | Anthology |
| Cover art | Gregory Bridges |
| Pages | xviii+365 |
| Price | A$19.95 |
| ISBN | 0732257514 |
- "Volume 1" on title page, "Vol 1" on spine, no volume reference on front cover. By ISFDB conventions "Volume 1" is part of the title.
- No printed price. Price from Locus 1.
- Largish tp
- The text is well-spaced. Each story has its own title page (with author info © the editors); the title pages are all on odd page numbers. The stories are all followed by an Afterword by the individual authors.
- The Sussex story is a slightly different version from that of its original appearance in Eidolon 21.
- Locus 1 has the author of "Passing the Bone" as Sean William, but it is definitely Williams all throughout this publication.
| Year | Reviewer | Publication |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Bill Congreve | Aurealis, #19 |
| 1997 | Michael M. Levy | The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 1997 |
| 2001 | Colin Steele | SF Commentary, #77 |
| 2010 | Bruce Gillespie | SF Commentary, #80A |
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver Fire | Greg Egan | Novelette |
| 35 | Of Fingers and Foreskins | Sara Douglass | Short Story |
| 61 | The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse | Terry Dowling | Short Story |
| 81 | The Ghost of Mrs Rochester | Lucy Sussex | Short Story |
| 101 | The Mark of Thetis | Simon Brown | Short Story |
| 131 | Never Seen by Waking Eyes | Stephen Dedman | Novelette |
| 161 | The Sword of God | Russell Blackford | Novelette |
| 183 | Blind Eye | Jack Dann | Short Story |
| 195 | Ilium | Andrew Whitmore | Novelette |
| 223 | Princess Melodia and the White Catherine | Beverley MacDonald | Novelette |
| 241 | A Man and His Dreams | Marele Day | Short Story |
| 261 | Passing the Bone | Sean Williams | Short Story |
| 283 | Dr. Tilmann's Consultant: A Scientific Romance | Cherry Wilder | Novelette |
| 307 | Schrödinger's Dog | Damien Broderick | Novelette |
| 345 | The Phoenix | Isobelle Carmody | Short Story |
| xi | Introduction (The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 1) | Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G. Byrne | Essay |