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Aurealis Award winning short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Eidolon I (2006), edited by Jeremy G. Byrne and Jonathan Strahan. The story can also be found in the anthology Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition, edited by Rich Horton. It is included in the collection Yellowcake (2011).

This work features short stories, no translation rights, no Australian rights, US (and first world) hardback published this month. Sometimes writing is so extraordinary that you just have to publish it. Even if it breaks all the rules. "Black Juice" is such a collection. However few copies we sell of this book, Margo Lanagan is the sort of writer that every list has to publish if that list cares about good writing. These are stories of immense confidence, the faith they have in the believability of the worlds they describe is such that they explain nothing, concede nothing but still leave you entranced because of the beauty of the writing and the intense clarity of the characters. Whether a family singing their daughter to her death, a young boy braving pestilential angels to give his grandmother the death she deserves and himself the freedom he deserves, or clowns on a sniper spree at a clown convention these are people you believe in, peopling stories of quite extraordinary power.

Contents:

• Singing My Sister Down
• My Lord's Man
• Red Nose Day
• Sweet Pippit
• House of the Many
• Wooden Bride
• Earthly Uses
• Perpetual Light
• Yowlinin
• Rite of Spring

This short story originally appeared in the anthology The Wilful Eye (2011), edited by Isobelle Carmody and Nan McNab. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Six (2012), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012, edited by Paula Guran, and Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (2016), edited by Paula Guran. The story is included in the collection Yellowcake (2013).

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Firebirds Soaring: An Anthology of Original Speculative Fiction (2009), edited by Sharyn November. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Four (2009), edited by Jonathan Strahan. The story is included in the collection Yellowcake (2011).

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical (2009), edited by Deborah Noyes. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010, edited by Rich Horton. The story is included in the collection Yellowcake (2011).

BSFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Extraordinary Engines (2008), edited by Nick Gevers. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Three (2009), edited by Jonathan Strahan, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded (2010), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and The Mammoth Book of Steampunk (2012), edited by Sean Wallace.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Blood and Other Cravings (2011), edited by Ellen Datlow and was reprinted in Lightspeed, July 2013. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four (2012), edited by Ellen Datlow, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton and Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013), edited by Ellen Datlow.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

Ghosts, deformed fairy tales, animal transformations, dystopic futures and twisted histories-these are the stuff of a Lanagan story.

An adolescent Hansel is enslaved by wicked tramp Grinnan during the Black Plague; a middle aged woman in country Australia has a last chance to save her swan-winged brother; Hans Christian Andersen's tinderbox shows up as a battered Bic cigarette lighter in a world of blasted cities and morals; gangs of sheela-na-gigs ride the city train system, unnerving the populace with their strange singing.

Phantom Limbs collects fourteen stories published in anthologies, magazines and small collections throughout the past decade, and adds one brand new story, 'The Tin Wife', to deliver an extended tour of the country of the weird.

Margo Lanagan's electrifying stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leaves on us all.

If you think you don't like short fiction, that a story can't have the depth or impact of a novel, then you haven't read Margo Lanagan. A writer this startling and this original doesn't come along very often. So for anyone who likes to be surprised, touched, unsettled, intrigued, or scared senseless, prepare to be dazzled by what a master storyteller can do in a few short pages.

WFA winning and Shirley Jackson Award noninated novella. It originally appeared in the anthology X 6: A Novellanthology (2009) edited by Keith Stevenson. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 and Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep (2015), both edited by Paula Guran. The novella was later expanded to the full novel The Brides of Rollrock Island (2012).

Aurealis Award winning novelette. It originally appeared in the collection Cracklescape (2012). The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven (2013), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

Aurealis, Ditmar and WFA winning, and Stoker, Hugo, Nebula and Sturgeon Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the collection Black Juice (2004). It can also be found in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005), edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant and The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2012), edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer.

Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever - magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga's refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?

Rollrock island is a lonely rock of gulls and waves, blunt fishermen and their homely wives. Life is hard for the families who must wring a poor living from the stormy seas. But Rollrock is also a place of magic - the scary, salty-real sort of magic that changes lives forever. Down on the windswept beach, where the seals lie in herds, the outcast sea witch Misskaella casts her spells - and brings forth girls from the sea - girls with long, pale limbs and faces of haunting innocence and loveliness - the most enchantingly lovely girls the fishermen of Rollrock have ever seen.

But magic always has its price. A fisherman may have and hold a sea bride, and tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she is. He will be equally ensnared. And in the end the witch will always have her payment.

Margo Lanagan has written an extraordinary tale of desire, despair and transformation. In devastatingly beautiful prose, she reveals unforgettable characters capable of unspeakable cruelty - and deep unspoken love. After reading about the Rollrock fishermen and their sea brides, the world will not seem the same.

Aurealis Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in the anthology Dreaming Again: Thirty-Five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction (2008), edited by Jack Dann, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, December 2016. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009, edited by Rich Horton, and After the End: Recent Apocalypses (2013), edited by Paula Guran.

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This short story originally appeared in the anthology Wings of Fire (2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Five (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

This short story originally appeared in the collection Red Spikes (2006). It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One (2007), edited by Jonathan Strahan, and Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume Two (2007), edited by Angela Challis.

Ten fantasy stories to tease and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan.

Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice. 'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power that will reward adult as well as teenage readers.' Adelaide Advertiser 'Ten more compelling stories from the author of the much-lauded Black Juice. Taut, vivid, original: another winner.' The Horn Book, USA 'I haven't read such challenging short stories as these for a long time. I'm in awe of the author's imagination.' Well Read, NZ 'This most diverse, nourishing set of stories had me riveted. They represent fantasy at its best, the unreal blended with the real, the unknown beating down the safe door of the known.' Magpies 'Dazzling.' John Marsden

Tipree nominated short story first published in the collection Black Juice (2004).

Yellowcake brings together ten short stories from the extraordinarily talented Margo Lanagan--each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking.

The stories range from fantasy and fairy tale to horror and stark reality, and yet what pervades is the sense of humanity. The people of Lanagan's worlds face trials, temptations, and degradations. They swoon and suffer and even kill for love. In a dangerous world, they seek the solace and strength that comes from family and belonging.

These are stories to be savored slowly and pondered deeply because they cut to the very heart of who we are.

Table of Contents

• The Point of Roses - (2006)
• The Golden Shroud - (2009)
• A Fine Magic - (2006)
• An Honest Day's Work - (2008)
• Into the Clouds on High - (2011)
• Night of the Firstlings - (2008)
• Ferryman - (2009)
• Heads - (2008)
• Living Curiosities - (2009)
• Eyelids of the Dawn - (2009)

Some editions include:

• Catastrophic Disruption of the Head - (2011)

A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man's outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain.

These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers' dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Jane Yolen
• The Duchess Dresser
• Isles of the Sun
• Bajazzle
• Significant Dust

X-Men meets Heroes when New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti to create a sizzling new series filled with action and adventure.

Don't call them heroes.

But these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart.

Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't--like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days.

Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group's "glorious leader." After Scam's SOS, he pulls the scattered Zeroes back together. But when the recue blows up in their faces, the Zeroes find themselves propelled into whirlwind encounters with ever more dangerous criminals. At the heart of the chaos they find Kelsie, who can take a crowd in the palm of her hand and tame it or let it loose as she pleases.

Filled with high-stakes action and drama, Zeroes unites three powerhouse authors for the opening installment of a thrilling new series.

X-Men meets Heroes when New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld teams up with award-winning authors Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti in the second book of an explosive new trilogy about a group of teens with amazing abilities.

They thought they'd already faced their toughest fight. But there's no relaxing for the reunited Zeroes.

These six teens with unique abilities have taken on bank robbers, drug dealers and mobsters. Now they're trying to lay low so they can get their new illegal nightclub off the ground.

But the quiet doesn't last long when two strangers come to town, bringing with them a whole different kind of crowd-based chaos. And hot on their tails is a crowd-power even more dangerous and sinister.

Up against these new enemies, every Zero is under threat. Mob is crippled by the killing-crowd buzz--is she really evil at her core? Flicker is forced to watch the worst things a crowd can do. Crash's conscience--and her heart--get a workout. Anon and Scam must both put family loyalties on the line for the sake of survival. And Bellwether's glorious-leader mojo deserts him.

Who's left to lead the Zeroes into battle against a new, murderous army?

The Zeroes are in disarray. One of them has vanished into thin air. One of them is in prison. The rest of them are on the most-wanted list. And something big is brewing.

After defeating Swarm in a breath-taking stand-off, Nate has been arrested for his murder. In prison and isolated, he can't use his powers of influence at all. Flicker, Chizara, Kelsie and Ethan are on the run and in hiding from the FBI who believe the Cambria Five are domestic terrorists. And Agent Phan and the FBI have a secret weapon up their sleeve - a teenager with a superpower that the Zeroes haven't encountered yet.

Meanwhile, Sonia Sonic and her growing band of weird-hunters are tracking inexplicable events across the country - and their investigations lead them to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, where the celebrating crowds promise enormous power to anyone who can channel it. Time is running out for the Zeroes, but they must learn to trust each other again and combine their powers for good - to avert the looming disaster...