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Author Fitzgerald, Else

Title Everything feels like the end of the world / Else Fitzgerald
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Contents River -- The world you were born into no longer exists -- Feather/stone -- Fertile ground -- Maps -- Everything feels like the end of the world -- What three words -- Dandelion -- After the water ran out -- A tiny formidable thing -- Coast -- Trigger -- Fracture -- A shape outside language -- Resist -- Glancing light -- Dust and bits and broken bricks -- How dark the nights -- Simulacrum -- Spoons -- It's midnight, Bitch -- Feed -- Making it work -- Find you in green -- Immersion -- Whale teeth -- Borders -- Fibian -- Some of these may hurt -- The last thing of all -- All the parts, assembled -- Diviner -- The gift -- Felidae -- Salvage -- Final broadcast -- Sheen
Summary "...Everything Feels Like the End of the World is a collection of short speculative fiction exploring possible futures in an Australia not so different from our present day to one thousands of years into an unrecognisable future. Each story is anchored, at its heart, in what it means to be human: grief, loss, pain and love. A young woman is faced with a difficult choice about her pregnancy in a community ravaged by doubt. An engineer working on a solar shield protecting the Earth shares memories of their lover with an AI companion. Two archivists must decide what is worth saving when the world is flooded by rising sea levels. In a heavily policed state that preferences the human and punishes the different, a mother gives herself up to save her transgenic child. These transformative stories are both epic and granular, and forever astonishing in their imaginative detail, sense of revelation and emotional connection. They herald the arrival of a stunning new voice."--OverDrive
Subject Short stories, Australian.
FICTION.
Short stories, Australian
Genre/Form Australian fiction
Australian Fiction
Short Stories & Anthologies
Fiction
Short Stories
Electronic books
short stories.
Short stories
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781761064807
1761064800