She’s Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women’s Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism, and Fantasy

A pregnant spaceman. A witch. A knight-errant princess. The nuns of St Mary Magdalene. A time traveller. Love and lyrebirds. Dreams and poetry. Philosophy. The creation of the universe. Two very different angels. Were-marsupials – and much more. With contributions from writers who’ve built reputations for themselves in other genres come an amazing array of fine science fiction stories. From writers born in the nineteenth century Henrietta Dugdale, M. Barnard Eldershaw (the pseudonym of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw) to young writers such as Sarah Endacott and Sue Isle, it also includes Aboriginal writers, Hyllus Maris and Daisy Uttamorrah as well as those whose reputations have travelled worldwide, Isobelle Carmody, Gabrielle Lord, Nadia Wheatley, Rosaleen Love and Carmel Bird.