The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of SFF writing from Aotearoa New Zealand. 
Table of Contents: 
New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell 
Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw 
Kōhuia, by T Te Tau 
Death confetti, by Zoë Meager 
For Want of Human Parts, by Casey Lucas 
How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster), by Marie Cardno 
Salt White, Rose Red, by Emily Brill-Holland 
Florentina, by Paul Veart 
Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead, by Octavia Cade 
The Waterfall, by Renee Liang 
The Double-Cab Club, by Tim Jones 
Wild Horses, by Anthony Lapwood 
You and Me at the End of the World, by Dave Agnew 
The Secrets She Eats, by Nikky Lee 
How To Build A Unicorn, by AJ Fitzwater 
Even the Clearest Water, by Andi C. Buchanan 
You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good Day, by Anna Kirtlan 
The Moamancer (A Musomancer short story), by Bing Turkby 
They probably play the viola, by Jack Remiel Cottrell 
Crater Island, by P.K. Torrens 
A Love Note, by Melanie Harding-Shaw 
The Turbine at the End of the World, by James Rowland

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3

Literature & Fiction

Cade, Octavia

Hodgkinson, Marie

Remiel Cottrell, Jack

Harding-Shaw, Melanie

Te Tau, T

Meager, Zoë

Cardno, Marie

Brill-Holland, Emily

Veart, Paul

Liang, Renee

Short Stories & Anthologies

Paper Road Press

Life is tough when you're an eldritch abomination. Trillin isn't technically a person. She's a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it. But when a human witch stumbles into her world, Trillin suddenly has a new reason to figure out individuality-one shape-shifting tentacle at a time. Sian is sure important magical discoveries are just around the corner, if she can just get her portals to work reliably. Reaching the dimension of the Endless without being eaten on sight is a dream come true, and Sian is determined to explore every bit of it. For science, of course, not for the strangely adorable life-form who keeps popping up and trying to... flirt? But Trillin's world can be a dangerous place, and keeping Sian safe might risk drawing the attention of the Endless itself-which will swallow Trillin up along with all her dreams of humanity. Together, can this unlikely duo escape the Endless, figure out the optimum number of appendages, and maybe even find love? &#65279;How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) is a sweet F/F romance between a witch scientist and a shape-shifting Cthulhu monster. HEA guaranteed!

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster)

Romance

Paranormal

Sian's world thinks she's dead. Trillin's dimension wants to make sure of it. And the place they escaped to together just threw a dragon at them. 
All Sian wanted was a quiet moment to make out with her new girlfriend. Instead, she and the adorably monstrous Trillin find themselves trapped by a world whose fairytale magic has very strict ideas about who gets a happily-ever-after. Princesses exist to be rescued. Heroes do the rescuing. And monsters? 
Monsters get killed. 
In a world where happy-ever-after has teeth, Sian and Trillin are going to learn to bite back. 
How to Get a Date with the Evil Queen is a paranormal romcom featuring ridiculous gender and genre roles, big swords and a woman who doesn't know how to use them, and shapeshifting true love winning against all odds.

How to Get a Date with the Evil Queen (Monster Girlfriend)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend)

Kalikoi

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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