Matter of opinion

At Conflux 3, Bill Congreve persuaded me to buy three books from him from the MirrorDanse offerings. Two of them, by Mark Lawson and Chuck McKenzie, were superb. However I had a bit more trepidation about the third - Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy volume 2 edited by Bill and Michelle Marquardt. The reason for my misgivings were based around vol 1 which despite having many good stories didn't really work as a collection for me. However Bill and others assured me that vol 2 is a better work. So it proved.

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