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Feb. 17th, 2011 09:02 pmThis blurb for my upcoming collection originally appeared on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
girliejones' blog, she being my publisher and all :-)
Nightsiders
Sue Isle
Twelve Planets, March 2011
In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia's capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late '30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone.
A few thousand obstinate and independent souls cling to the city and to the southern towns. Living mostly by night to endure the fierce temperatures, they are creating a new culture in defiance of official expectations. A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.
Nightsiders comprises four stories and is introduced by Marianne de Pierres.
The Painted Girl
Nation of the Night
Paper Dragons
The Schoolteacher's Tale
Paper Dragons was originally published in Shiny Issue 5 and was shortlisted for the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story.
I'm quite pleased by how it has turned out and hope readers will think so too. I like reading post-apocalypse fiction a lot and noticed in many of the books how the authors seemed to take particular delight in wreaking havoc on their home towns, or states. Think of what Stephen King has inflicted on Maine over the years. So I thought it was Perth's turn :-)
girliejones' blog, she being my publisher and all :-)Nightsiders
Sue Isle
Twelve Planets, March 2011
In a future world of extreme climate change, Perth, Western Australia's capital city, has been abandoned. Most people were evacuated to the East by the late '30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone.
A few thousand obstinate and independent souls cling to the city and to the southern towns. Living mostly by night to endure the fierce temperatures, they are creating a new culture in defiance of official expectations. A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.
Nightsiders comprises four stories and is introduced by Marianne de Pierres.
The Painted Girl
Nation of the Night
Paper Dragons
The Schoolteacher's Tale
Paper Dragons was originally published in Shiny Issue 5 and was shortlisted for the 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story.
I'm quite pleased by how it has turned out and hope readers will think so too. I like reading post-apocalypse fiction a lot and noticed in many of the books how the authors seemed to take particular delight in wreaking havoc on their home towns, or states. Think of what Stephen King has inflicted on Maine over the years. So I thought it was Perth's turn :-)