Six years after the Rise, Australia’s coastal towns are gone, lost under the ocean’s unstoppable advance. The survivors have retreated to a series of newly formed islands off the coast of New South Wales, seeking to rebuild their lives with limited resources, destructive weather, and fierce competition amongst communities.And not all are successful . . .Baz is a fresh water merchant, desalinating saltwater and bartering this valuable commodity throughout the struggling isla...

Four friends-Dave, Eddie, Jimmy, and Chuck-are fed up with their boring lives. So when Eddie builds a personal interstellar space craft, the obvious thing is to go somewhere. Little do the guys know that simply going somewhere is never quite that easy. The galaxy is a big place, full of complex worlds, people of ill repute, and unexpected events popping up at the wrong time.Join our woefully underprepared friends as they try desperately to get to the tourist world known as Paradise...

FOUR FRIENDSONE SECRETNO CLUEFollowing their wild maiden voyage aboard Liberty and their impulsive purchase of an abandoned resort city, Dave, Eddie, Jimmy, and Chuck haphazardly embark on a new adventure.Jimmy buys a mysterious box from a small, unassuming antique shop. When he finally gets it open, the secrets it contains will pull him and his friends into a galaxy-spanning hunt for answers and, h...

15 Stories. 15 Australian authors. One theme: Journeys.What games do the dead play?Can the ambassador negotiate peace with a hostile alien race?Why is Rae so terrified of a letter from the 'Next Chapter' Department of Lebensqualitat?Read about living mannequins, prison ships, pandemics and more in the second anthology from Aussie Speculative Fiction.