Thumbs up to Aurealis #125! Dirk Strasser explores the differences between reading and listening to ebooks when it comes to fiction. Join us to savour Craig Blane's fun SF/Western hybrid 'Drink with the Dead'. Be transported by the rich enchantment of Mike Adamson's 'The Witch who Wove Dreams'. And don't leave before the bitter end as we watch an employee's sad and frightening decline under the weight of Laurence Barratt-Manning's 'Data'. Amy Laurens looks at "Worldbuilding: Using Maps To Build Stories", Eugen Bacon chills out with Dunedin fantasy author, Kura Carpenter; and Lachlan Walter explores "The (not so Sudden) Rise of World Science Fiction". Our reviews include Peripheral Visions by Robert Hood, Prisoncorp Orphancorp #3 by Marlee J Ward, The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan, Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCartney, and The Wayfarers Trilogy by Becky Chambers.