Aurum: A golden anthology of original Australian fantasy

by Russell B Farr

Overview

Original novellas by Juliet Marillier, Lucy Sussex, Joanne Anderton, Cat Sparks, Stephanie Gunn, Angela Rega, and Susan Wardle. Seven original novellas from some of Australia’s premier fantasy writers. In these pages you’ll find trolls and angels, princes and puritans, cats and captives, and master crafters of materials and machines.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155885351
Publisher:	Ticonderoga Publications
Publication date:	11/19/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	449 KB

Table of Contents

"Shatterglass", Susan Wardle

"Pinion", Stephanie Gunn

"Lady Brilliana", Lucy Sussex

"And the Ship Sails On", Cat Sparks

"With This Needle I Thee Thread", Angela Rega

"I Almost Went to the Library Last Night", Joanne Anderton

"Beautiful", Juliet Marillier

Editorial Reviews

11/05/2018
Farr (Magic Dirt) gathers seven original Australian fantasy novellas that introduce dark, clever, optimistic, and ominous characters. In Susan Wardle’s romantic adventure “Shatterglass,” a disgraced woman becomes a political pawn when she is married off to a wealthy glassblower whose body is slowly being consumed by glass crystals. Stephanie Gunn’s exceptional steampunk dystopian tale “Pinion” is a gut-wrenching story of the enslaved people who maintain the machines of the elite’s gleaming towers and yearn for freedom. Charm and humor abound in Lucy Sussex’s fantasy, “Lady Brilliana,” in which a 17th-century English Protestant noblewoman is reincarnated as a modern-day cat adopted by the woman’s distant descendant. Joanne Anderton’s grim “I Almost Went to the Library Last Night” is a frenetic cyberpunk tale of a resourceful young man, a teenage girl, and an injured child who survive the mass zombification of the populace through nanomachines. With a wide variety of styles, themes, and sentiment, this anthology offers fans of fantasy a rich trove of visionary landscapes. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly