"Perchance to Dream" (short story)

Short story published in "Dreaming Again"
First Published:
Australia: HarperCollins, 2008
Canada/US: HarperCollins (Eos), 2008
 
35 new stories celebrating the wild side of Australian fantasy writing
Welcome to the energy, invention and imagination of Australia's finest writers of speculative fiction – from acclaimed international bestsellers to the freshest new voices.
 
Ten years ago, "Dreaming Down–Under" captured the excitement of the wild side of Australian fiction and won a coveted World Fantasy Award. Now it's time to start Dreaming Again...
 
CONTRIBUTORS
Peter M. Ball
Lee Battersby
John Birmingham
Jenny Blackford
Russell Blackford
Adam Brown
Simon Brown
Trudi Canavan
Isobelle Carmody
Paul Collins
Rowena Cory Daniells
Cecilia Dart–Thornton
Rjurik Davidson
Stephen Dedman
Sara Douglass
Terry Dowling
Jason Fischer
Ben Francisco
Christopher Green
Richard Harland
Trent Jamieson
Margo Lanagan
Rosaleen Love
Chris Lynch
Sean McMullen
Jason Nahrung
Garth Nix
Cecily Scutt
Angela Slatter
Aaron Sterns
Dirk Strasser
Lucy Sussex
Janeen Webb
Kim Westwood
Kim Wilkins
And including a previously unpublished story from the late great A. Bertram Chandler
 
Review/s:
"Dreaming Again is at once quintessentially Australian and enticingly other. If you read short fiction you'll want this collection. If you don't, this is a reason to start."
~ Bookseller + Publisher