Background

"Toother" was first published in the United States in 2007 in the science fiction and fantasy anthology

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 Eclipse One, edited by Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan

Jonathan Strahan is an editor and publisher of science fiction. His family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1968, and he graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986....

 and published by Night Shade Books

Night Shade Books

Night Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...

. In 2008 "Toother" was republished in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Kelly Link

Kelly Link

Kelly Link is an American editor and author of short stories. While some of her fiction falls more clearly within genre categories, many of her stories might be described as slipstream or magic realism: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism...

, Gavin J. Grant, Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor and anthologist.-Biography:Datlow was the fiction editor of Omni magazine and Omni Online from 1981 through 1998, and edited the ten associated Omni anthologies...

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"Toother" won the 2007 Australian Shadows Award

Australian Shadows Award

The Australian Shadows Award is an annual literary award established by the Australian Horror Writers Association in 2005 to honour the best published work of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian...

 beating works by Matthew Chrulew, David Conyers

David Conyers

David Conyers writes predominantly science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.Most of his childhood was spent in the Adelaide Hills, before moving to Melbourne. There he achieved a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Melbourne in 1993...

, Rick Kennett

Rick Kennett

Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror and ghost stories. He is the most prolific and widely-published author in Australia after Paul Collins, Terry Dowling and Greg Egan, with stories in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies in Australia, the US and the UK.His first...

, Martin Livings

Martin Livings

Martin Livings is an Australian author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. He has been writing short stories since 1990 and has been nominated for both the Ditmar Award and Aurealis Award...

, and Jason Nahrung

Jason Nahrung

Jason Nahrung is an Australian horror author and journalist who lives in Melbourne, Victoria with his partner Kirstyn McDermott. Nahrung has previously written for The Courier-Mail newspaper in Queensland, with a special interest in speculative fiction and horror-related topics. He was co-winner...

. "Toother" was also a short-list nominee for the 2007 Aurealis Award for best horror short story

Aurealis Award for best horror short story

The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and SpecFaction NSW to published works in order to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers"...

 but lost to Anna Tambour

Anna Tambour

Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.In 2009, her story "The Age of Fish, Post-flowers" was in the anthology Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Ekaterina Sedia, ed. that won the Anthology World Fantasy Award...

's "The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe".

External links

• Eclipse One at Night Shade Books
  Night Shade Books
  Night Shade Books is an independent publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. It was started in 1997 by Jason Williams, with Jeremy Lassen coming on board as a partner shortly after the company's founding...