Ionospherics 97

In their introduction to The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Two Bill Congreve and Michelle Marquardt write about me that I'm "indefatigable" in the role of editor of AntipodeanSF. Personally, I'm not so sure about that. I'm certainly able to get tired, and deadlines often slip. It is without doubt that scratchy eyes and brain are a contributing factor to the length of my all-too-long submission queue. Despite this, AntipodeanSF will keep coming at you.

The mission's worth it. I might get tired, but I LOVE what I do. The issues are going to keep on coming. Indeed, issue 100 of AntipodeanSF looms, and it will be not only a double issue of twenty (20) fine flash fiction stories, but also a retrospective and reflective featuring some of AntiSF's regular and long-past contributors — who I'm hoping will tell us some home truths a about their experiences with AntiSF, both good and bad. I promise not to edit them too much...

Ooroo for now,

Ion.

PS: along with Terry Dartnall's The Ladder at the Bottom of the World, I’d recommend obtaining a copy of The Year's Best Australian SF & Fantasy, Two, even though it does not feature any of AntiSF's stories this time around. Bill and Michelle did an indefatigable job of their own in the production of this fine anthology, in that they read about five hundred stories, totalling over a million words published by Aussies in 2005. Amazing.