These are our futures, our pasts and our worlds that might have been: a soldier seeks to escape a never-ending war; the Ash-Mouth Man peers in at his victims in a hospital ward; a young biologist discovers the truth of natural selection in the jungles of the Amazon; a businessman seeks unnatural revenge by a lonely rail track; blackbirds devour the souls of dead soldiers; a tribe of refugees face life amid the hostile ruins of Canberra.

Provoking and inventive, the Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Volume 3 includes talented newcomers as well as established professionals at the peak of their form.

Includes an overview of the genre, a list of markets for writers, sources of Australian SF and fantasy, and recommended reading.