Help me find this 90s Australian science fiction novel?
December 18, 2024 5:13 PM Subscribe
Can you help me find the author and title of a science fiction detective novel from somewhere around '95-'97, set in the authoritarian city-state of Sydney after a nuclear exchange which decimated the northern hemisphere?
The recent passing of John Marsden prompted me to go find a book I remember that I *thought* he'd written, but about which I think I was mistaken.
It's a detective novel centered around solving a series of murders, and set in the city-state of Sydney decades after a nuclear war. It involves some degree of pre-war tech, a Danish fence who was stranded in Australia after the war, a possibly mute genetically-enhanced and remotely activated sleeper agent who comes to protect a destitute young woman, and some degree of the city council starting to open up to the world again. It would have come out within a couple of years either side of Sean Williams' 'Metal Fatigue' but is is most definitely *not* that book. The general theme is the gradual receding of nuclear winter and the slow thawing of hope for the future.
I recall it not being the world's most amazing novel, but I picked it up in paperback around the same time I first bought 'Fallout' in it's big landscape box with the flip-up lid maybe early in '98, and I think that helped the novel leave a few hooks in me, and I'd like to go back and have another skim through it.
The recent passing of John Marsden prompted me to go find a book I remember that I *thought* he'd written, but about which I think I was mistaken.
It's a detective novel centered around solving a series of murders, and set in the city-state of Sydney decades after a nuclear war. It involves some degree of pre-war tech, a Danish fence who was stranded in Australia after the war, a possibly mute genetically-enhanced and remotely activated sleeper agent who comes to protect a destitute young woman, and some degree of the city council starting to open up to the world again. It would have come out within a couple of years either side of Sean Williams' 'Metal Fatigue' but is is most definitely *not* that book. The general theme is the gradual receding of nuclear winter and the slow thawing of hope for the future.
I recall it not being the world's most amazing novel, but I picked it up in paperback around the same time I first bought 'Fallout' in it's big landscape box with the flip-up lid maybe early in '98, and I think that helped the novel leave a few hooks in me, and I'd like to go back and have another skim through it.
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posted by MarchHare at 6:12 PM on December 18, 2024 [5 favorites]