Aurealis #86

In the last Aurealis issue for 2015, Australia’s premier fantasy and science fiction magazine goes out with a bang. Looking for some holiday period reading? Check out the Aurealis 2015 speculative fiction recommended reading list. Aurealis #86 features Janet Haigh’s moody and atmospheric “Potkin” and Lachlan Huddy’s comic seafaring science-fantasy “Adrift on the Smoky Sea”. Dirk Strasser talks time travel, the Eye of Sauron and the Dow Jones index. Daniel Thompson explores Automation Hacking and Virtual Imprisonment in “Five Future Types of Crime”. Chris Large interviews Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author Ann Leckie. And another unsung hero from the Secret History of Australia is uncovered by the painstaking research of Stephen Higgins. To top it all off, the intrepid Aurealis reviews team looks at the recent publications by S L Grey, Jim Butcher, Anna Tambour, C S Sealey and Keri Arthur.