![]() ![]() Select the department you want to search in. Delivering to Sydney 1171 Sign in to update Kindle Store. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility. Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. ![]() A beautifully written story of the near future and its murky underworld. The novel's politics feel, to me, libertarian with benevolent assumptions about human beings. The Couriers New Bicycle eBook : Westwood, Kim: : Books. A beautifully written story of the near-future and its murky underworld. None of the other characters, conveniently, ever refer to the protagonist with a pronoun.) The protagonist & protagonist's friends are in general up against super-fundamentalist Christians who have taken over the government and, in particular, an individual villain lurking among them who has teamed up with one of the corrupt super-fundamentalist Christians. I'm presuming the the novel is written in first person chiefly in order to evade the problem of pronouns: the protagonist is the only character without a defined sex, and thus apparently one of a kind. (No pronoun for the protagonist, because the narrative makes no suggestions for how to refer to the protagonist. Maybe dystopia lite would better characterize its sub-genre? In any case, the style, in first-person present tense, uses some noir conventions, even as the narrative furnishes the protagonist with a tight circle of friends and a wider network of dissidents & random helping hands at every turn to support the protagonist. (2011) THE GIRL WHO CIRCUMNAVIGATED FAIRYLAND IN A SHIP OF HER OWN MAKING. Cozy noir-which sounds like a contradiction in terms, but mash-ups are, of course, the order of the day. ![]()
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