The past is a foreign country, all right, but it’s chock full of great SF&F titles to get us through Corona Days. Here are the latest offerings from the Aurealis Editors, complete with our pithy teasers.

• Overlooked: Darkfall by Isobelle Carmody (1997). Immersive, transfixing, interwoven.
• Underrated: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick (1965). Unsettling, bleak, hallucinatory.
• Forgotten: Out of the Silence by Erle Cox (1925). Ground-breaking, best-selling, Australian.

What better time to read? And, as such, Aurealis is continuing our deep dive into the SF/Fantasy of the past, those books that have been sitting at the back of bookshelves for ages awaiting a re-read. Why not these give a try?

• Overlooked: The Prestige by Christopher Priest, 1995 . Imaginative, intelligent, gripping .
• Underrated: Star Gate by Andre Norton, 1958. Engaging, robust, brisk.
• Forgotten: The Devil’s Elixirs by E T A Hoffmann, 1815 in German, 2009 Oneworld Classics English translation. Macabre, disorienting, labyrinthine.

Here are some more Aurealis reading suggestions, goodies from the past, perfect for pandemic reading – or re-reading. Some of these might take some finding, but they’re well worth it.

• Overlooked: Wormwood by Terry Dowling (1991). Entertaining, Enthralling, Dowlingesqe.
• Underrated: Deryni Rising, by Katherine Kurtz (1970). Thoughtful, deliberate, intricate.
• Forgotten: The Sea and Summer by George Turner (1987). Prescient, incisive, Australian.