NOVELLAS
Once We Flew
A dystopian science-fantasy, space colonisation novella
Was that our destiny? I wondered. To erode bit by bit until every last trace of us was gone?
Four generations ago a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet’s hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying. Rescue is still generations away—if it comes at all.
But Marsa is a survivor.
And an outcast.
Infected with the Chrysalis—a disease that grants its carriers uncanny abilities—she keeps her distance from her dwindling community.
Until an old friend’s dying wish sends her and a young boy across Savene’s inhospitable sands in search of something Marsa had thought she’d long forgotten.
Hope.
2023 Aurealis Award Finalist (Best Science Fiction Novella)
Dingo & Sister
A post apocalytpic cli-fi fantasy novelette
One girl, one dingo and a desert between them and safe haven.
Anika has nowhere left to run.
Stuck at the edge of the desert and unable to return home, she and her dingo companion steal from travellers about to cross the climate-ravaged sands to Alice Springs.
Such journeys are fraught with danger: heatstroke, dehydration, snakebite. Many people die trying to reach Alice, Anika knows this first hand. She tried once and nearly lost everything.
But when she gets caught stealing, her hand is forced. With a group of enraged, gun-toting travellers on her trail, she must run one last time.
She must face the desert and its ghosts again.
This time, there's no turning back.
2020 Aurealis Award Winner (Best Young Adult Short Story)
2020 Aurealis Award Winner (Best Fantasy Novella)
2020 Aurealis Award Finalist (Best Science Fiction Novella)