Full disclosure: one of my stories is in here ("The Mistress of Fishes") but as I've been rereading this anthology I thought I'd put up a quick review. I'm trying to make it objective, but who knows.

I love reading NZ speculative fiction, if only because I recognise the people and the settings, and there's still something of novelty in seeing my own environment reflected. So much of the fantasy I was raised on was a kind of faux-mediaeval European environment, and though I enjoy that I find more and more that I want to see my own country in fantasy, my own country's environment and history. This collection does that for me.

Regeneration is a wide theme, and the editors here have really done a very good job in selecting stories with an enormous range. My own particular favourite ("Kiwi or Queenie" by Jennifer Compton) stands up to any specfic story I've read anywhere lately. It's really very fine. Runners up, to my mind, are "Monocarpic Colony Blues" by Elizabeth Gatens and "The Spectre Spectrum" by Debbie Cowens.

It's a must read for NZ science fiction fans, I reckon. Even if it's got me in it.