Aurealis #130

Aurealis #130 is just what you’re looking for. There’s Anya Ow’s ‘Last Light’, an action-packed space marines’ adventure, with a Vandermeer-esque touch of body horror and morality. A story that explores desperation in its many forms, both human and nonhuman. Our second story is Stephen Dedman’s post-apocalyptic ‘Bid Time Return’ world which asks just how far the urge to return to an imagined golden age might be taken. Our third is R B Kelly’s ‘Pineapples are Not the Only Bromeliad’ which looks at what identity means to humanity when faced with the reality of sentient AIs. Then join the conquistador quest for Incan gold in a strange New World in Dirk Strasser’s CONQUIST Part 4 ‘By the Throne of the King’. Lachlan Walter discusses ‘Science Fiction, Politics and the Evolving Nature of Remakes’. Gillian Polack gives us some true gothic from Australian history in ‘The Case of the Demon Bushranger’ and B P Marshall allows us all to take ‘How to Create Advanced Humans (and Aliens) 101’. And to finish off we have 20 reviews including The City - A Cyberfunk Anthology edited by by Milton J Davis, Dark Angels Rising by Ian Whates, Arcamira by Hannah Sandoval, and Londonia by by Kate A Hardy.