Aurealis, #20/21: Vend-A-Nation

Overview:

• Title: Aurealis, #20/21: Vend-A-Nation
• Author: Stephen Higgins, Dirk Strasser
• Year: 1998
• Publisher: Chimaera Publications
• Price: A$13.95
• Pages: 200
• Binding: A5
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: Australian Visions
• Notes:
  • The theme of this issue is "The Futures of the Australian Republic".
  • 21 cm x 14.8 cm (A5).
  • Publication month inferred from year of this & of previous issue & publication schedule.
    Copyright page states "appears twice a year: June/July and December/January".
  • US Price US$8.50 (from cover).
  • Cover artwork is titled "Vend-A-Nation".
  • As well as there being specific artwork to illustrate several of the stories (by various artists), Shaun Tan provided other art for the issue, e.g. beside the TOC. This has been put as a general item.
    None of the illustrations in this issue are full-page.
  • The reviews are expanded cf the TOC & Locus 1. (There's multiple, plus an introduction.) Only the reviews with headings have been included. There are over a dozen other books "reviewed" in a long paragraph each. (There's a list on the publisher's website.)
  • Some titles (& some page numbers) are tweaked cf the TOC (& Locus 1) - using the version straight above the start of the relevant items, as per ISFDB conventions. ( ... especially the Geoffrey Maloney story which is "Keeping the Meter Running" above the story.)
    Authorship of "The Australian Society of Speculative Fiction Writers" article/proposal is inferred from ot being signed "The Editors".
  • See also, issue's [new] website - [here]. (October 2015)