Cirrus@Austlit

'SNAFU: Punk'd holds eighteen tales from some of the best authors working in action-horror today, with a slant towards cyberpunk, steampunk, biopunk, and other punk sub-genres you may or may not have heard of. Warriors fighting for their lives amongst the many-verse SNAFU always brings to the game.

'Think Bladerunner (cyberpunk), Naked Lunch (biopunk), the Crysis videogames (nanopunk), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (steampunk) and so on… anything that can be considered a high-action monster story set within an obviously ‘punk’ theme.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Religion and ideology have fuelled war since the beginning of humankind.

'Deeply-held beliefs can lead to factional wars, and it’s been said that more people have been killed in the name of some god than for any other reason.

'The Crusades, the Inquisition, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, and many more…

SNAFU: Holy War offers high-action horror based around conflicts of religion, either overt or covert, featuring previous SNAFU favourites along with some of the best brand new writers working in the field today.'(Publication summary)

'Some of the most important military missions have been medical evacuations – medivacs.

'Soldiers don’t often fight for themselves. They fight for the guy next to them, their brother, their friend, their family.

'And they fight hard.

'In 2019, Cohesion author and friend… hell, more family, really… Jim Moore was suddenly in the struggle of his life. He overcame the Big C, but his fight is ongoing. A fight to pay for all the treatments in a country that has no free public health system, and a fight to claw his way back from the ravages of the very treatment that saved his life.

'His fight is our fight, and if we don’t fight for our friends, is there anything really worth living for?

'All income from SNAFU: Medivac goes to Jim to help pay his bills and keep his household functional.

'Once this is no longer necessary, the income will transfer to a cancer research or treatment charity.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Join the military, they said.

'See far-flung worlds, they said.

'Meet interesting creatures, and kill them all.

'Soldiers fighting aliens in unforgiving landscapes, where every breath could be their last.

'Featuring stories by Mike Resnick, Alan Baxter, Tim Marquitz, Steve Lewis, and others.

'From near-future to far-future, featuring some of the best writers working in the field today.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'“A lunatic asylum, like a prison, is one of those estimable public institutions which we all admire most at a distance, but which very few of us care to become too intimately acquainted with.” 

'–Journalist, Ovens & Murray Advertiser 1903

'Beechworth Asylum has sat gracefully over the historic goldrush town of Beechworth for 150 years. Detailed within is a short, defined history of the asylum and the grounds, complete with photos and original contract plans to show the buildings and the architecture. Find out all about this hidden palace of broken dreams, and learn all the secrets of its many buildings and the heritage-listed gardens.'

(Source: publisher's blurb)

'Man versus Nature.

'Anacondas, piranha, giant crocodiles/alligators/lizards, mutated bears near nuclear power stations, prehistoric sharks. All featured heavily in books and films of the 70s and 80s, when bio-horror was at its modern peak.

'This anthology of military-bio-horror stories takes you back to those classic days.

'Think Greg McLean’s Rogue, Lake Placid, Eight-legged Freaks, Anaconda, Meg, Prophecy, Deep Blue Sea, and other films/books where people (in this case soldiers) are fighting against mutated or ultra-dangerous animals.

'Join some of the best writers working today, along with some SNAFU favourites, for an unnaturally good time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'The Road to Golgotha holds two comics by Australian writers, set to the art of US illustrator Monty Borror.

'"His Own Personal Golgotha" by G.N. Braun follows the awakening of "the man" into a nightmarish world of cemeteries and bones. To achieve anything, he must find out where and who he is.

'"The Road" by Amanda J. Spedding shows us the changes wrought in Riley as she casts off her civilised veneer to allow the goddess within to emerge fully into her birthright.

'Redemption and personal growth are strong themes throughout both stories, and they each hold surprises as the protagonists struggle to come to terms with changes or growth they need to undertake. Travel with them as they go through their own personal golgotha along a road less-travelled.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Military science fiction and horror stories.

'War is Hell…

'Soldiers fight to survive.

'They fight each other, and they fight the demons inside.

'Sometimes, they fight real monsters.

'SNAFU collects stories of ancient myths, time travellers, horrors in the old west…

and the soldiers who fight them.

'Featuring some of the best writers working in the field today.

'Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse, Greig Beck and James A Moore lead the way, with a contingent of emerging authors to back them up.

'Fight or die.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.