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'Set in the near future – during a time of plummeting fish stocks, toxic algae blooms and jellyfish swarms – The Good Captain follows a group of radical environmentalists committed to a mission of extreme civil disobedience against the powers threatening to destroy the last of the world’s marine life.
'Led by the wild Rena – born and raised by the ocean – the characterful crew engages in a high seas drama that contains all the thrill of a cat-and-mouse seafaring classic, while at the same time offering a timely warning for the political classes that their negligence will not go unpunished.
'Evoking a disturbing vision of what the world might soon become – random, dangerous, surprising and sometimes even miraculous – The Good Captain is a gripping, confronting and truly unique novel.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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[Review] The Good Captain
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 150 2022;
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Warm Broth : A Second Novel from Sean Rabin
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 37)
— Review of The Good Captain 2022 single work novel'Just when you thought there wasn’t enough to worry about, along come bottom trawlers. While the fishing technique of dragging a heavy net along the bottom of the seabed is nothing new – indeed, there was a British commission inquiry into the practice as far back as 1866 – the sheer size of modern super trawlers maximises their destructiveness. Centuries-old sea coral forests are bulldozed by the thirty-tonne nets, non-targeted fish and turtles become indiscriminately tangled in the web, and the disturbed sediment releases more carbon than the entire aviation industry each year.' (Introduction)
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Warm Broth : A Second Novel from Sean Rabin
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 37)
— Review of The Good Captain 2022 single work novel'Just when you thought there wasn’t enough to worry about, along come bottom trawlers. While the fishing technique of dragging a heavy net along the bottom of the seabed is nothing new – indeed, there was a British commission inquiry into the practice as far back as 1866 – the sheer size of modern super trawlers maximises their destructiveness. Centuries-old sea coral forests are bulldozed by the thirty-tonne nets, non-targeted fish and turtles become indiscriminately tangled in the web, and the disturbed sediment releases more carbon than the entire aviation industry each year.' (Introduction)
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[Review] The Good Captain
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 150 2022;
— Review of The Good Captain 2022 single work novel
