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'Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews.
'It′s a stressful life, post-pandemic. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility, and the government has banned all remedies except prayer.
'Vigilantes prowl for transgressors while the pious gather like moths under the streetlights at dusk. Then someone starts trading tainted hormones on the boss's patch. Salisbury must find whoever is trying to destroy the business before everything goes belly up ...' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: For Brenda
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Epigraph: You can change the story. You are the story. - Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook
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Crime Can Pay
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15) -
The Year's Work in Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 137-152)
— Review of When We Have Wings 2011 single work novel ; Shooting the Fox 2011 selected work short story ; Sarah Thornhill 2011 single work novel ; The Waterboys 2011 single work novel ; Traitor 2010 single work novel ; Inherited 2011 selected work short story ; The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel ; That Deadman Dance 2010 single work novel ; The Street Sweeper 2011 single work novel ; Thought Crimes 2011 selected work short story ; Black Glass 2010 single work novel ; The Cook 2011 single work novel ; Wild History 1996 single work poetry ; A Common Loss 2011 single work novel -
End of the World Not So Far Off
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21) -
Australian Science Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , November no. 84 2012; (p. 60)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel ; The Clockwork Rocket 2011 single work novel ; Rotten Gods 2012 single work novel -
Dystopian Worlds Abound
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 September 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel
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Cover Notes
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 August 2011; (p. 21)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 August 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel -
Dystopian Worlds Abound
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 September 2011; (p. 24)
— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle 2011 single work novel -
Down a Dark Alley
Stefen Brazulaitis
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 33) -
End of the World Not So Far Off
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21) -
Crime Can Pay
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15) -
Kim Westwood and the Implacable Other
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2011;
Awards
- 2012 winner Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2012 finalist Locus Awards — SF Novel
- 2012 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2012 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2011 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
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