35 new stories celebrating the wild side of Australian fantasy writing

Welcome to the energy, invention and imagination of Australia's finest writers of speculative fiction – from acclaimed international bestsellers to the freshest new voices.

Ten years ago, Dreaming Down–Under captured the excitement of the wild side of Australian fiction and won a coveted World Fantasy Award. Now it's time to start Dreaming Again ...

Includes a previously unpublished story from the late great A. Bertram Chandler

Jack Dann has written or edited over sixty books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, which is published in over ten languages and was number 1 on The Age bestseller list. The San Francisco Chronicle called it "a grand accomplishment", Kirkus Reviews thought it was "an impressive accomplishment", and True Review said, "Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it." His novel The Silent has been compared to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; Library Journal chose it as one of their "Hot Picks" and wrote: "This is narrative storytelling at its best – so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended."

Dann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, and Mark Twain. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), and the Premios Gilgames de Narrative Fantastica Award. He has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight). His novel, Bad Medicine (retitled Counting Coup in the US), has been described by The Courier Mail as "perhaps the best road novel since the Easy Rider days". The West Australian called his retrospective short story collection Jubilee "a celebration of the talent of a remarkable storyteller". He is also the co–editor of the groundbreaking anthology of Australian stories, Dreaming Down–Under, which won the World Fantsasy Award in 1999, and co–editor of Gathering the Bones, a collection of horror stories from around the world.

Jack Dann lives in Melbourne, Australia, and "commutes" back and forth to Los Angeles and New York.

His website is at www.eidolon.net/jack–dann

One of those nice, fun interviews I do so like doing!