Dirk Strasser Editor: 26 books

Aurealis has reached a milestone very few science fiction and fantasy magazines reach. This is our hundredth issue. And it's three times the size of our normal issues. We have gone back and contacted everyone who appeared in Aurealis #1 in 1990 and asked them for a new story. Not everyone was...

This issue of Aurealis features Patrick Doerksen’s ‘Extracts from a Life of Science Fiction’, a poetic meditation on the nature of science fiction and humanity, S G Larner’s ‘Searching for Cidalisa’ which explores a near future society of implanted memories and rogue databases, and Annika...

This issue of the Australian magazine of fantasy, science fiction and horror, edited by Dirk Strasser, is our first special Aurealis Award Winners issue. 'Rains of la Strange' by Robert N Stephenson, an action-packed story set in a richly-realised milieu, won Best Science Fiction Short Story. Lisa L Hannett's 'The Short Go' was the joint winner in the Best Horror Short Story category.

Aurealis starts off the year in supernova mode and intends to ramp up. Aurealis #87, the first global issue, has even more science fiction and fantasy. Dirk Strasser points out the dangers of treating people like Orcs. Sean Monaghan opens with ‘The Root Bridges of Haemae’, a resonant off-world...

Aurealis #85 features Peter Hickman’s “Dreamscribe”, a terse evocative world-creation with complex character motivations in a tightly woven story, and “The Events at Callan Park”, a creepy asylum-set historical tale from Erol Engin which has unnerving implications for today.Dirk Strasser...

In this issue Dirk Strasser looks at the intensely private portal books that opened up reading for each of us. Clive McAlpin’s ‘The Spoils’ transports us to a truly alien yet strangely recognisable Australia. In the hard science fiction story with heart, ‘The Empty Quarter’, Jai Baidell...

Aurealis #58, edited by Dirk Strasser, opens with Steve Simpson's 'Apartment on Copernicus Street', an alien invasion story that's authentic, powerful, full of surprises, and more than a little chilling. And hold onto your horses for a tough and raunchy Wild West fantasy, with Chris Large's 'The Red...

Aurealis #88 opens with Dirk Strasser riffing on how works of fiction have a life independent of the writer once they are published. Melanie Rees’ ‘#WhatIsHendersonsCurse’, is a wicked little tale of frenetic tweeting that takes cyberspace bullying to frightening dimensions. In ‘The Planetary...

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”...

Aurealis #57, edited by Dirk Strasser, starts off what's going to be a big year. 'Where Colossi Sleep' by Daniel Baker is near future sub-continental grunge, where heavy industry blends with a culture four thousand years old, and is transformed by it. Watch out for C S McMullen's 'Monday-child', a...

In this issue Dirk Strasser looks at the recent Genre Effect study which exposes a self-fulfilling bias among literary readers against science fiction. Sarah Napier’s story, ‘Fail’, is an uncompromising near future examination of how we might deal with virtual infidelity in the face of ever-evolving...

Join Aurealis #116, our final issue for the year, as we travel deep into the realms of both inner and outer space. Don’t miss the Aurealis Recommended Reading list for 2018 where our reviewers give their views on the best of the best in this year’s speculative fiction. Dirk Strasser searches for...

Aurealis is the Australian magazine of fantasy, science fiction and horror. Aurealis #48, edited by Dirk Strasser, features Matt Bissett-Johnson's graphic story 'The Descent of Traag', a ripping deep-space yarn by Rick Kennett, a subtle Greg Mellor tale of a digital artist who paints actual thoughts, and an article on Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds, plus news, reviews and mor

Aurealis #89 opens with a haunting image of ghosts reburying their dead at low tide from David Versace ‘The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat’, then moves through the gentle organic world-building of Adrik Kemp’s ‘Blossom Fall’ and finally onto Heidi Kneale’s intriguing steampunkish ‘How He...