Popular Oceanian Science Fiction Books

Find science fiction books written by authors from Oceania for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (13)

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The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to bullshit, Jean is not your usual grandma. She's never been good at getting on with other humans, apart from her beloved granddaughter, Kimberly. Instead, she surrounds herself with animals, working as a guide in an outback wildlife park. And although Jean talks to all her charges, she has a particular soft spot for a young dingo called Sue. As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realises this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand th... continue

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The Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A chilling novella about extinction, grief, and what we hold onto when the world falls apart.

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This All Come Back Now

This All Come Back Now : An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction by Mykaela Saunders EN

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Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
The first-ever anthology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speculative fiction - written, curated, edited and designed by blackfellas, for blackfellas and about blackfellas. In these stories, 'this all come back'- all those things that have been taken from us, that we collectively mourn the loss of, or attempt to recover and revive, as well as those that we thought we'd gotten rid of, that are always returning to haunt and hound us. Some writers summon ancestral spirits from the past, while others look straight down the barrel of potential futures, which always end up curving back aroun... continue