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The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut - also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker.In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner.Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption, and disease known as the System. It is an outpost whose sole purpose is survival - refuge from the hulking, eyeless things they call Ghosts and other creatures that hunt beyond the fortress walls.Sold as a child, then raised hard in the System, the Orphan has a mission.
About the Author
Daniel Findlay is based in Sydney, Australia where he has been writing professionally for over fifteen years. Dan is a historian by training but usually writes about music, food and pop culture for titles including Rolling Stone and The Sydney Morning Herald. A fan of post-apocalyptic tales such as The Road and Riddley Walker, in 2015 Dan adventured to the site where Australia tested nuclear weapons in the 1950s and the idea for a novel set in Australia after the end of the world took shape. Dan has also played a LOT of Fallout, loves his cat Stormz and is discovering the joys of house plants.Year of the Orphan is his debut novel and has been described as Mad Max meets The Road. It was released in Australia to stellar reviews and an Aurealis Award nomination for Best Sci Fi Novel.
