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Tag: Anthology

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: Collisions (edited by Leah Jing McIntosh, Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein and Hassan Abul)

Collisions aims to “shift the Australian imaginary”.

Anthology, Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Short stories, Writers of colour

Review: Living With The Anthropocene (edited by Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell)

The writers in this collection grapple with what it means to be “planetary” beings: how our individual actions can seem so small, but have global consequences.

Anthology, Anthropocene, Australian, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, Nonfiction

Review: After Australia (edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad)

“Australia is just a glitch,” writes Wiradjuri writer Hannah Donnelly. After Australia is a collection of speculative fiction that explores what Australia is, and could be.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Racism
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