Award winning independent Australian press Coeur de Lion publishing presents twenty-nine all new science fiction stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth, featuring original works by Margo Lanagan, Sean McMullen, Richard Harland, and Kim Westwood among a galaxy of new and established Australian and overseas speculative fiction authors. This volume contains the following stories: “Murmer” by Calie Voorhis “Beautiful” by Cat Sparks “Hatchway” by Simon Petrie “At the End There Was a Man” by Lee Battersby “Unexpected Launch” by Alan Baxter “An Exhibition of the Plague” by Richard Harland “Rains of la Strange” by Robert N. Stephenson (Winner of the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story) “Maia Blue Is Going Home” by Liz Argall “Memories of Mars” by Chris McMahon “Pink Ice in the Jovian Rings” by C.J. Paget “SIBO” by Penelope Love (Nominated for the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story) “Beneath the Floating City” by Donna Maree Hanson “Lisse” by Erin E. Stocks “Deuteronomy” by William R.D. Wood “Desert Madonna” by Robert Hood (Nominated for the 2011 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story) “Psi World” by Steve de Beer “Continuity” by Damon Shaw “Alien Tears” by Wendy Waring “Poor Man’s Travel” by Patty Jansen “Eating Gnashdal” by Jason Fischer “By Any Other Name” by Kim Westwood “Space Girl Blues” by Brendan Duffy “Oak with the Left Hand” by T.F. Davenport “Spacebook” by Sean McMullen “Yon Horned Moon” by Margo Lanagan “The Caretaker” by Mark Rossiter “Messiah on the Rock” by Jason Nahrung “Pyaar Kiya” by Angela Ambroz “So Sad, the Lighthouse Keeper” by Steve Cameron