Aurealis #154

After whetting your appetite with this issue’s editorial where Dirk Strasser compares the premiere episodes of House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power, take your time tasting the other delicacies in Aurealis #154. First feast on the fiction: Aidan Doyle’s original and evocative time loop story, ‘Sword, Salmon, Castle’; John Kinsella’s dreamlike, meandering and lyrical ‘World Made Whole Again’ and Chris Butler’s absorbing mystery ‘The Sculptor’. Lynne Lumsden Green looks at one of SF’s pioneering women: Ann Sheldon, while Gillian Polack is Thinking About the Void and Chris Fosteris Staying up After Dark with Alan Baxter. Among the many books reviewed are Angela Slatter’s The Bone Lantern, Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz, Rachel Swirsky’s January Fifteenth, and Dirk Strasser’s serialised historical fantasy novel Conquist.