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    Aurealis #70
    Aurealis #70
    Aurealis #70
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    Aurealis #70

    By Dirk Strasser (Editor)

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    Australia's leading SF magazine is still kicking goals. Do yourself a favour and buy it. This latest issue features 'The Stain on the Lake' by Matthew J Morrison, a dark, chilling piece with characters to die for, and 'Wrecked' by Ephiny Gale, a new twist on the reality television theme, which is sort of 'Truman Show' meets 'Survivor' meets 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. Shane M Brown talks about how his Aurealis story is on the verge of making it to the silver screen, and Stephen Higgins provides his hilarious tongue-in-cheek advice to would-be writers in his 'So you want to be a Horror Writer'. Don't forget to check your answers to last issue's quiz. (If you feel you need to find the questions in our previous issue, you might be missing the point. Have a look, and you'll see what we mean.) The reviews pages look at a mixture of recently published works by some well-known and some lesser known authors.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChimaera Publications
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781922031266
    Aurealis #70
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    Dirk Strasser (Editor)

    Dirk Strasser has written over 30 books for major publishers in Australia and has been editing magazines and anthologies since 1990. He won a Ditmar for Best Professional Achievement and has been short-listed for the Aurealis and Ditmar Awards a number of times. His fantasy novels – including Zenith and Equinox – were originally published by Pan Macmillan in Australia and Heyne Verlag in Germany. His children’s horror/fantasy novel, Graffiti, was published by Scholastic. His short fiction has been translated into a number of languages, and his most recent publications are “The Jesus Particle” in Cosmos magazine, “Stories of the Sand” in Realms of Fantasy and “The Vigilant” in Fantasy magazine. He founded the Aurealis Awards and has co-published Aurealis magazine for over 20 years.

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      Aurealis #70 - Dirk Strasser (Editor)

      AUREALIS #70

      Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction

      Edited by Dirk Strasser

      Published by Chimaera Publications at Smashwords

      Copyright of this compilation Chimaera Publications 2014

      Copyright on each story remains with the contributor.

      EPUB version ISBN 978-1-922031-26-6

      ISSN 2200-307X (electronic)

      CHIMAERA PUBLICATIONS

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      Contents

      From the Cloud—Dirk Strasser

      Wrecked—Ephiny Gale

      The Stain on the Lake—Matthew J Morrison

      From the Archives—So You Want To Be A Horror Writer—Stephen Higgins

      From Aurealis to (hopefully) the Silver Screen!—Shane M Brown

      Answers to Last Issue’s Quiz

      Reviews

      Next Issue

      Credits

      From the Cloud

      Dirk Strasser

      I have two totally different ways of approaching books versus films. I almost never walk out of a movie, no matter how bad it is, yet I frequently stop reading books that I’m not enjoying. I suppose the time commitment is part of it. A movie is a block of two hours of my time, while a book not only takes up more hours, but they’re stretched over a much longer period, and each time I put the book down, I’m forced to make a decision the next time about whether it’s worth returning to.

      I think there’s more to it than that, however. When I read a clunky book with plot inconsistencies, poorly delineated characters or pedestrian prose, I’m constantly thinking not just about what’s wrong with it, but how I could write it better. In the back of my mind, I guess I’m aware that, if I really wanted to, I could have a go at a rewrite or, at the very least, make sure I don’t make the same mistake in my own writing. Theoretically, I can make the writing better. A movie is very different. I know that I can’t just sit down at my desk and make a movie. I can sit down at my desk and write a movie script (which is what I’ve been attempting the last few months), but, of course, at most writing is only a blueprint for a movie. It’s not even close to actually making a movie.

      I know a bit about the novel writing process. I’ve been doing it for years. I’ve read articles on it. I’ve done courses on it. I’ve taught courses on it. But movie making is like alchemy for me. Although I’ve seen the end product many times, I don’t really know exactly what all the ingredients are and how they interact to produce it. There are too many people and too many factors involved.

      Earlier this year I was contacted by an author who was seeking an assurance that Chimaera Publications didn’t hold any rights to the movie version of his Aurealis story. I assured him we didn’t. Shane M Brown was the author, and the story edging closer to becoming a movie is ‘Lucy Lucy’ from Aurealis #29. Shane tells how Aurealis and Hollywood are maybe not as far apart as we thought in his article in this issue: ‘From Aurealis to (hopefully) the Silver Screen!’.

      ‘Lucy Lucy’ was shortlisted for the 2002 Aurealis Awards, but the issue in which it appeared is now unfortunately out of stock, and Aurealis readers who don’t

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