Author(s): Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)

Science Fiction

Ancient myths go high-tech a decade after the New New Zealand Wars.
Safe homes and harbours turn to strangeness within and without.
Splintered selves come together again – or not.

Twelve authors. Thirteen stories. The best short science fiction and fantasy from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019.

Featuring:

‘Good Dog, Alice’, by Juliet Marillier

‘Te Ara Poutini’, by Nic Low

‘Inside the Body of Relatives’, by Octavia Cade

‘Henrietta and the End of the Line’, by Andi C. Buchanan

‘Hearts made Marble, Weapons Shaped from Bone,’ by A.J. Fitzwater

‘Who Watches’, by Rem Wigmore

‘The Fisher’, by Melanie Harding-Shaw

‘Fission’, by Nicole Tan

‘A Shriek Across the Sky’, by Casey Lucas

‘Moving House’, by Alisha Tyson

'Proof of Concept’, by James Rowland

‘Spontaneous Applause’ and ‘First dispatch from the front’, by Zoë Meager

Volume two in the Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy series from Paper Road Press.