Back Issues

Issues One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight and Nine are still available in limited quantities.

Issue One

Short stories in Issue One include:

• "Heat Seeking" by Cathy Cupitt
• "Beach Rubble" by K J Bishop
• "Through Soft Air" by Lee Battersby
• "The Distance Keeper" by Deborah Biancotti
• "Fashion Victims" by Stephen Dedman
• "Ring Ring!" by Simon Brown

Non-fiction includes:

• "Bad Film Diaries" by Grant Watson
• "He Took His Vorpal Sword In Hand" by Cathy Cupitt

Cover illustration by Grant Watson. Other illustrations by Sarah Xu, Renee Dillon and Grant Watson.

Issue Two

Issue Two was launched at Borderlands: Trilogy - a small convention focusing on fantasy, whose similarity in name to the magazine is not entirely coincidental.

Short stories include:

• "Sisters" by Simon Brown
• "Worth" by Bob Franklin
• "The Purgatory Machine" by Richard Harland
• "My Brother is God" by Trent Jamieson
• "Opposites" by Dave Luckett
• "Predatory Instinct" by Chuck McKenzie
• "The Collector" by Alinta Thornton

Non-fiction includes:

• "Bad Film Diaries" by Grant Watson
• "Matrices of Embodiment" by Tama Leaver

Cover illustration by Grant Watson. Interior art by Sarah Xu, Kyla Ward, and Tiki Swain.

Issue Three

Fiction

• "Unreal City" by Claire McKenna
• "The End of the World Begins at Home" by Sean Williams
• "Letters to Joise" by Lee Battersby
• "Chlorine" by Simon Brown
• "Lizzy Lou" by Barbara Robson
• "Last Dance at the Sergeant Majors' Ball" by Cat Sparks
• "By the Sweat of Your Brow" by Dave Luckett

Non-fiction

• "Men and Wolves: Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and the New Age Men's movement" by Michael McAvan
• "Bad Film Diaries" by Grant Watson
• "The Triangle of Meaning" by Chris Lawson

Illustrations by Colin Sharpe, Sarah Xu and Randall Ensley
Cover by Grant Watson

Issue Four

The fourth issue of Borderlands was released in early 2005.  Stories in this issue include:

• "The Seasonal Collector" by Jo-Ann Whalley
• "Hear No Evil" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• "How Green as Their Love" by Tess Williams
• "The House" by Gary Kemble
• "Gloves" by Stephanie Campisi
• "The Deviation Road" by Greg Guerin
• "Solid Rock" by Cathy Cupitt
• "A Small Dark Love" Scot Snow
• "Coup de Grace" Stephen Dedman

Non-fiction:

• "Body Parts" by Chris Lawson
• "P K Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror" by Rosaleen Love
• "Bad Film Diaries" by Grant Watson

Illustrations by Justin Ong, Fiona Roberts, Colin Sharpe
Cover by Sarah Xu

Issue Five

The fifth issue of Borderlands was released at Swancon over the Easter weekend in March, 2005.  Stories in this issue include:

• "Degrees of Separation" by Richard Kerslake
• "Kiss Franky Goodnight" by John Ezzy
• "Other" by Bob Franklin
• "Oracle of Brick and Bone" by Kyla Ward
• "On the Bones" by Aidan Doyle
• "Hooked" by Martin Livings

Non-fiction:

• "A Global Anti-Mutant Treaty" by Russell Blackford
• "Preservation of What Exactly?" by Chris Lawson

Illustrations by Colin Sharpe
Cover by Cameron Allan

Issue Six

The sixth issue of Borderlands was released at GenghisCon over the Australia Day weekend in January, 2006.  Stories in this issue include:

• "The Infinite Temple" by Gary Kemble
• "The Imprisonment of Marianne" by Lee Battersby
• "Message in a Bottle" by Cat Sparks
• "The Hanging Tree" by Lyn Battersby
• "Ghosts of 1930" by Lily Chrywenstrom
• "The Subtle Hand of God" by Jay Caselberg
• "Spare Parts" by Emma Munro
• "And I Feel Fine" by Russell B Farr
• "Words" by Danny Oz

Non-fiction:

• "Bad Film Diaries - Failing the Will Save: How to Draw Enjoyment from the Dungeons and Dragons Movie" by Grant Watson
• "Conspiracy Theories are Deadlier Than Conspiracies" by Chris Lawson

Illustrations by John Robert Lohmann and Colin Sharpe
Cover by Sarah Xu

Issue Seven

The seventh issue of Borderlands was first available at Conflux in early June, 2006.  Stories in this issue include:

• "The Garden Shed Pact" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• "Sepulchra" by Tony Williams
• "Mary Bennet Gets a Life" by Sue Isle
• "Josephine" by Jarrod Law
• "Within a Lizard's Teeth" by Chris McMahon
• "The Fear of White" by Rjurik Davidson

Non-fiction:

• "Man and Super-Monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and its Metaphorical Undercurrents" by Robert Hood

Illustrations by Tina Lorenz
Cover by Grant Watson

Price

Back issues are available for $10.00 Australian per issue.

Issue Eight

Borderlands Eight was originally available for sale at the 2006 World Fantasy Convention. We thank Borderlands Books in San Francisco for their support. Stories in this issue include:

• "Three Wishes" by Shane Dix
• "Prescince" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• "The River Prophet" by Azra Alagic
• "God of War" by Robert Hood
• "Women and the Moon" by Heidi Wessman Kneale
• "The Gibbet Bell" by Kaaron Warren
• "Chuman Manifest" by Ion Newcombe

Non-fiction:

• "Bad Film Diaries - Sink or Swim: The Truth Behind Waterworld" by Grant Watson

Illustrations by Tina Lorenz and Cat Sparks
Cover by Sarah Xu

Issue Nine

Borderlands Nine was launched at the Night's Edge convention in Perth on the 10th of November 2007. Stories in this issue include:

• "Mara" by Hoa Pham
• "The Cell" by Madhvi Ramani
• "Birder" by Tiki Swain
• "The Joy of Close Reading" by Cathy Cupitt
• "It's Sophisticated" by Robert N Stephenson
• "Fortunate Lives" by Gary Kemble
• "The Drifters" by Ian Shoebridge
• "Fate of Words" by CAL

Non-fiction:

• "Muncaster's Ghosts" by Marty Young
• "Bad Film Diaries - You're So Vain: Battlefield Earth and the Vanity Project" by Grant Watson
• "The Curse of the Transcendental Happy Ending" by Chris Lawson

Illustrations by Sarah Xu and Colin Sharpe
Cover by Sarah Xu

Back issues of Borderlands are subject to availability due to a limited production run.