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    Sprawl
    Sprawl
    Sprawl
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    Sprawl

    By Alisa Krasnostein

    3.5/5

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    Sprawl is an exciting new original anthology, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and published by Twelfth Planet Press, that will give readers from around the world a unique glimpse into the strange, dark, and often wondrous magics that fill the days and nights of Australia’s dreaming cities and towns, homes and parks, and most of all, its endlessly stretching suburbs.

    Table of Contents

    Peter Ball – One Saturday Night, With Angel
    Deborah Biancotti – Never Going Home
    Simon Brown – Sweep
    Stephanie Campisi – How to Select a Durian at Footscray Market
    Thoraiya Dyer – Yowie
    Dirk Flinthart – Walker
    Paul Haines – Her Gallant Needs
    L L Hannett – Weightless
    Pete Kempshall – Signature Walk
    Ben Peek – White Crocodile Jazz
    Tansy Rayner Roberts – Relentless Adaptations
    Barbara Robson – Neighbourhood Watch
    Angela Slatter – Brisneyland by Night
    Cat Sparks – All The Love in the World
    Anna Tambour – Gnawer of the Moon Seeks Summit of Paradise
    Kaaron Warren – Loss
    Sean Williams – Parched (poem)
    Sprawl was released in September 2010.

    Reviews
    Sprawl is a collection of short stories by Australian writers and is an amusing, haunting and sometimes mind-bending glimpse into an alternative, yet strangely familiar, Australia.

    Scoop Magazine

    It screams that this is an anthology crammed with content and a variety of authors.

    The thrust of the book is to produce “a suburban anthology of Australian fantasy,” as mentioned in the introduction. ... While there is a theme–the suburban part–each story felt unique and different so that I didn’t really know what to expect with each story. ... There’s a lot of diversity here–from alternate history to horror to metaphoric fiction–but at the same time you felt it was rooted in suburban Australia.

    Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwelfth Planet Press
    Release dateJan 3, 2011
    ISBN9780980484182
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    • 2/5
      I really did not enjoy this anthology as a whole. I recommend reading "Walker" (Dirk Flinthart'), and 'Seed Dreams" (Liz Argall/Matt Hungh). Maybe "Neighbourhood Watch" (Barbara Robson) and 'Brisneyland by Night" (Angela Slatter). They will still be depressing stories, but at least they aren't the grindingly repetitive horror of the rest. Skip the rest unless you are feeling up to Unpleasant. If it was sold as horror, I'd probably not be so negative, but even then - they weren't horror stories, but rather horrible stories about horrible people. It reads as if this collection of 'Australian' writers are no such thing, but a group of people who live here, but hate the place.
    • 5/5
      I savoured “Sprawl” over lunch breaks, dipping into it when I had time to spare. With a loose focus on urban fantasy and horror, each story in the collection comes from a unique place throughout the Australian urban landscape, evoking the suburbs and cities in all their variety; from the quiet country town to the busy inner city suburbs.With a contemporary Australian outlook, Sprawl revealed glimpses of myth, horror and fantasy tales tucked into the corners of urban life. There was a unique sense of character and location arising from an environment that shelters people of many different cultures, all striving to find their own way of belonging. Contemporary urban speculative fiction at it's best

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