The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fifth Annual Volume)
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Overview:
- Title: The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Fifth Annual Volume)
- Author: Bill Congreve
- Year: 2010
- ISBN-10: 9780975773642
- Publisher: MirrorDanse Books
- Price: A$
- Pages: 384
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Painlessness
- Notes:
- Although title says "Fifth Annual", the book in fact covers 2008 and 2009.
- No printed price. Probably $24.95 - the price paid for the copy used for this data, purchased in May 2011 from a local retailer that usually prices with the Recommended Retail Price. Same price seen on several Australian On-Line Retailers (Nov. 2011)
- Month unknown: Mirror Danse website in Nov. 2011 says "expected July 2010"; one on-line Australian retailer has Oct 2010; another has Dec. 2010.
- Re cover art: Copyright page states: © Tomislav Tikulin, 2007. It appears to be the same as for 2007 Jack Vance Chapterbook The Kragen [here].
- From the Acknowledgements on page 383: Parts of the Introduction were first published in Aurealis 31, 2003.
- The Jason Fischer story title is all lower case in the TOC and on top of the story, viz. "for want of a jesusman"