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'In a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape dominated by free-wheeling cyborgs, a young man goes in search of his lost lover who has been kidnapped by a rogue AI truck – the Brumby King.
'Along the way, he teams with Sinnerman, an independent truck with its own reasons for hating the Brumby King.
'Before his final confrontation with the brumbies, he must learn more about the broken-down world and his own place in it, and face his worst fears.
'This genre-bending work of literary biopunk mixes the mad fun of Mad Max II with the idiosyncratic testimony of works like Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang or Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting.' (Publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Andrew Macrae : Trucksong
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2014;
— Review of Trucksong 2013 single work novel -
Trucksong, A Literary Debut
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , November 2013;
— Review of Trucksong 2013 single work novel
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Trucksong, A Literary Debut
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland (Online) , November 2013;
— Review of Trucksong 2013 single work novel -
Andrew Macrae : Trucksong
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2014;
— Review of Trucksong 2013 single work novel
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted Norma K. Hemming Award
- 2014 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2013 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Novel
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