Mortal Fire: Best Australian SF

Terry Dowling is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor, game designer and reviewer, who was born 1947. He writes speculative fiction and dark fantasy.

Terry Dowling's fiction has been compared to that of Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, J. G. Ballard, Harlan Ellison, Gene Wolfe and Frank Herbert, Dennis Etchison and Peter Straub, as well as South American writers like Borges and Cortazar.