"Glass Reptile Breakout" and Other Speculative Australian Stories [Paperback]

A pretty reasonable anthology of material collected here, with an average of 3.42, and all the stories are pretty short, in general. Basically there is a piece from all the top short story writers of the time, in Australia, along with a few others.

A brief introduction is given by the editor, and he also puts together a list of Australian SF anthologies up to that time, which is also very useful.

Glass Reptile Breakout : Glass Reptile Breakout - Russell Blackford
Glass Reptile Breakout : All My Yesterdays - Damien Broderick
Glass Reptile Breakout : Skyriders - Simon Brown
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Getaway Star - Paul Collins
Glass Reptile Breakout : Errand of Mercy - Stephen Dedman
Glass Reptile Breakout : Vanities - Terry Dowling
Glass Reptile Breakout : Artifact - Greg Egan
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Supramarket - Leanne Frahm
Glass Reptile Breakout : Combatant - Van Ikin
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Last Guardian - Sue Isle
Glass Reptile Breakout : Omphalos A Dialogue - David J. Lake
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Sea-Serpent of Sandy Cape - Rosaleen Love
Glass Reptile Breakout : Confusion Day - Philippa C. Maddern
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Colours of the Masters - Sean McMullen
Glass Reptile Breakout : In the Garden - Petrina Smith
Glass Reptile Breakout : The Lipton Village Society - Lucy Sussex
Glass Reptile Breakout : Shut the Door When You Go Out - George Turner
Glass Reptile Breakout : Mostly Meantime - Jack Wodhams

Miracle music. Flickdancing. The old bags and old bastiches still feel threatened by the rock and roll.

4 out of 5

Lazarus Longtime.

3.5 out of 5

Pilot crazy song fall down go boom.

4 out of 5

An actress is rather disloyal to one of her colleagues. Not the brightest move when she ends up in an isolated real life chase scene.

3.5 out of 5

Literal bible reading imprisonment jailbreak reversal decision.

3.5 out of 5

Tom visits a friend's friend, and finds out a teratophile acquaintance is flouting Ab'O religion and funeral Stone Man custom.

3.5 out of 5

A man is unable to deal with being in space, despite the unique opportunity of investigating an artifical structure around a black hole.

3 out of 5

Big shop.

3.5 out of 5

Sheep fragger show.

3 out of 5

Snoozy dragon apocalypse.

3 out of 5

Changing worlds, not so much.

3 out of 5

Cryptozoology candid camera.

4 out of 5

Over? Dunno.

3 out of 5

A pair of elderly twins have lost music by a famous composer, but in a bizarre format that needs a technological tweak. With this work, comes a new musical find.

4 out of 5

Slightly creepy, can't walk or whip though.

2.5 out of 5

Imaginary land instantiated.

3.5 out of 5

Disease cure return Nexus no-go.

4 out of 5

Repair delay escalation.

3 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

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