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'‘The sun was so brutal, so twisted in its brutality, it seemed to grip us by the neck and push us down into the drowning waters. And, in the end, that was our choice: by water – or by sun.’
'The year is 2221 and the world is dying. Temperatures soar as high as fifty degrees every day. Sea levels are rising year by year. The population has fallen to below 2 billion people. The ruined cities of the north – Sydney, Brisbane and beyond – were abandoned as the rising sea and the sun’s intensity turned them to wastelands.
'In an isolated coastal town south of Sydney, young Finch Taylor is captivated by the mysterious beauty April Speare and her pianist husband William when they move into a nearby beach house with a piano and a tragic secret. Finch soon begins a lifelong love affair with music, and with April. But as he and April follow the great migration south to Tasmania, and eventually to a warming Antarctica, they must decide whether to bring children into a world without a future.
'Hauntingly beautiful, The Warming depicts a nomadic existence, where love and hope are the only means of enduring a world that has turned against humanity.' (Publication summary)
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The Field
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 96-113)
— Review of Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture 2018 multi chapter work criticism ; Books That Saved My Life : Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure 2018 selected work essay ; Beyond the Orbit : An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction to 1935 2019 anthology short story ; War of the Worlds : Battleground Australia 2019 anthology short story ; Daughter of Bad Times 2019 single work novel ; The Earth Below 2019 single work novel ; The Warming 2019 single work novel ; Queens of the Sea 2019 single work novel ; Rogue 2019 single work novel
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The Field
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , November no. 100 2019; (p. 96-113)
— Review of Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture 2018 multi chapter work criticism ; Books That Saved My Life : Reading for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure 2018 selected work essay ; Beyond the Orbit : An Anthology of Australian Science Fiction to 1935 2019 anthology short story ; War of the Worlds : Battleground Australia 2019 anthology short story ; Daughter of Bad Times 2019 single work novel ; The Earth Below 2019 single work novel ; The Warming 2019 single work novel ; Queens of the Sea 2019 single work novel ; Rogue 2019 single work novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 2221