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An online publication that publishes audio versions of short fiction, especially science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Rather than marketing itself as a website, Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine markets itself as a magazine, albeit one that is published incrementally:
On a quarterly basis, we will bring you a magazine’s worth of stories. If you look at the table of contents to a magazine like Asimov’s Science Fiction, you get something like four short stories, two segments of serialized novelettes, one segment of a serialized novella, and a few poems. You will probably also get an article or two about books or conventions and the like. So, approximately seven short story length pieces, and a few bits of gravy to go on top. Quarterly (to begin with, but soon we’d like to expand to a monthly schedule), we will bring you these things.
Everything will not be released at once, however. The magazine will build itself, story by story, as the quarter goes along. One week, you’ll get a story. Two weeks later, you’ll get another story, the next week you’ll get a third story, three weeks later you’ll get an article, and so forth. This will continue, until the magazine is complete. And then we start a new quarter.
(Source: http://dunesteef.com/about-us/)
Notes
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The magazine's content is released as 'episodes': relevant content has been indexed on AustLit as individual episodes of an over-arching series.
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13The Seas of Castle Hill Road 1992 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Winter no. 9 1992; (p. 14-31) Strange Fruit : Tales of the Unexpected 1995; (p. 175-197) The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 151-182)'While staying with his friend Sonja Vanhoeven in Queensland, Ernie hears the sound of the sea surging through the windows of her house at night, despite being 40 kilometres from the coast.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
2008 -
43Time in a Rice Bowl 1991 single work short story horror
— Appears in: The Reluctant Ghost-Hunter 1991; (p. 20-) Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine , February/March no. 11 2004; (p. 81-97) The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 129-150)'Ernie’s ten-year-old niece Christine has turned into an ancient Chinaman and disappeared into the ghost of a house long since demolished. After a rice bowl full of water that take no notice of time is found in her bedroom, an evil rag-face spirit begins to intrude into the search for her.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
2009 -
52Working Holiday 2001 single work short story science fiction humour
— Appears in: AustrAlien Absurdities : Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers 2001; (p. 57-67)'Commander Jack Taylor helped overthrow the evil rulers of the planet Tharronia in the name of Earth. But when word reaches him of the new government’s misdeeds and corruption, he returns there on his own to see if he can’t make things right. Despite the previous two sentences, wacky fun ensues.'
Source: Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.
2009 -
95Out of the Storm 1993 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Terror Australis: The Best of Australian Horror 1993; (p. 170-185) The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 89-102)'During the Second World War, a bomb-damaged minesweeper, HMAS Barrinji, is found drifting abandoned in the middle of the Indian Ocean. As a salvage crew sail her back to Australia, a spectral atmosphere begins to manifest aboard the little ship.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
2011 -
100The Battle of Leila the Dog 1991 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Winter no. 5 1991; (p. 70-81) The Lottery : Nine Science Fiction Stories 1994; (p. 31-48) Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 34-44)'Cy De Gerch, the 17 year old executive officer of the Martian frigate Utopia Plain, is haunted by a spectral dog during a space battle.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
2011 -
139The Road to Utopia Plain 1994 single work short story science fiction fantasy
— Appears in: Eidolon : The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy , Winter no. 15 1994; (p. 68-87) Beyond : Science Fiction and Fantasy , April 1995; (p. 23-24) Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 45-63)'After a freak occurrence in subspace as they return home to Mars, the crew of the Utopia Plain find all is not as it should be. The Captain’s wife has died in an epidemic that never was; and Cy’s lover, Jos Manxman, though killed in a training accident two years before, is alive and planning a hike into the Martian desert.'
Source: Author's website. (Sighted: 16/6/2014)
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