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 One of the best things about having edited AntiSF for such a long time is seeing authors travel on to bigger and better things. This month, two regular contributors (especially in times past) have collaborated to create a special story exclusively for publication at AntiSF — and they have done this just "for the love" of AntiSF.
Thanks Jason and Martin. Each of you has amassed an impressive list of publication credits, and I really appreciate you coming back home to make such a fine contribution to this ongoing project that is AntipodeanSF.
Art, Ink isn't flash fiction, it's a short story, but it appears on the website all the same. Readers will, however, need to register with AntiSF in order to access the link to the story.
What are you waiting for? Register here, and log in to get that special story.
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Speculative Flash Fiction |
You're about to launch into an adventure at AntipodeanSF, the online magazine that's devoted to the regular monthly publication of fabulous and original science-fiction, fantasy, or horror mini-stories of about 500 words each.
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Please spend a few moments to read this month's stories, reviews, and other information about down-under SF.
AntipodeanSF is also optimised for reading on your i-phone, i-pod, other mobile phone, or PDA device. Read us anywhere!
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The Return Man - V.M. Zito |
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The Return Man, V.M. Zito, Hodder & Stoughton, 2013
‘The Return Man’ is V.M. Zito’s first foray into a full length novel. As a self-confessed, lifelong-fan of the zombies he does a first rate job of instilling the main elements of the genre in this post-apocalyptic work. Furthermore, Zito incorporates the contemporary elements of a sinister China seizing on the misfortune of a decimated USA — including the autocratic tendencies of a ‘New Republic’ government, and the unseen hand of a CIA-type organisation pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Is Zito a member of the NRA? I doubt it, but he sure is good at incorporating lashings of literary blood and gore. He will become the Quentin Tarantino of the literary world if this novel is indicative of any future work he turns out.
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In The Mouth Of The Whale - by Paul McAuley |
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Review by Nuke
In The Mouth Of The Whale, by Paul McAuley, Gollancz (Orion), 2012
 While I was reading Paul Mcauley's latest novel I was under the notion that I'd not read anything by this novelist in the past. Strange. Hard SF. How had he slipped my SF acquisitive net? Well, turns out he hadn't. In fact, I do now recall reading his 1995 Sidewise Award winning novel Pasquale's Angel. Good book. And my problem turns out to be a memory issue, nothing more or less. Hardware or software? Will it turn out that I'm an AI with no real notion of what I really am? That I live a reality other than where I think I live?
Turns out Mr. McAuley likes to pose these kinds of questions. Good questions. But posed in story form, and the questions are never articulated, merely implied, tangentially approached.
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Confessions Of A University Troll |
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I am the resident University of Canterbury Troll. I live under the UCSA footbridge.
Early one morning I met a student going to the UCSA cafe.
"I feel like breakfast," he told me, when I asked.
He looked like breakfast too; he even tasted like breakfast!
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Rise Of The Fallen - by Teagan Chilcott |
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Rise Of The Fallen, by Teagan Chilcott, Magabala Books, April 2013
 Rise Of The Fallen is a new work by a young writer. Teagan Chilcott can be very proud of the fact that at an age where many young women are still feeling their way into the adult world, she is a published author. It's an achievement that I don't want to downplay.
But the fact is that there is perhaps a reason there aren't many authors in their teens. There's a certain maturity that comes with time, and it tends to be reflected in writing style.
Rise Of The Fallen is an urban fantasy novel, set ostensibly in Brisbane. I say ostensibly, because there is actually no sense of place evident in the novel. It could just as well have been London, New York or the moon.
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By Antoinette Rydyr
The hour of our death hath come.
Population reached a trillion.
Resources depleted.
Decimation.
Wastelands.
Planet crumbling under the strain.
People squabbling.
Violence escalating.
Degradation.
Indignation!
Humanity reduced to scavenging, and worse...
Cannibalism.
Nothing left to save.
Finger poised over the button.
It was time to call it a day.
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