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Daniel Findlay Daniel Findlay i(11323630 works by)
Gender: Male
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A historian by training, Dan Findlay has worked for more than ten years as an editor of youth magazines and as a freelance writer and photographer for publications such as Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, and writing other pop-culture periodicals.

In 2017, he released his first novel, the science-fiction work Year of the Orphan set in a post-apocalyptic Australian wilderness. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Aurealis Awards.

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y separately published work icon Year of the Orphan North Sydney : Penguin Random House Australia , 2017 11323650 2017 single work novel science fiction

'In a post-apocalyptic future, survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian outback. Living rough in the remnants of our ruined world, an orphan with her own brutal past must decide if what’s left of humanity is worth saving.

'Outback Australia. Hundreds of years from now. After the end. A girl races across the desert pursued by the reckoner, scavenged spoils held close. In a blasted landscape of abandoned mines and the crumbling bones of civilisation, she survives by picking over the dead past. She trades her scraps at the only known settlement, a ramshackle fortress of greed, corruption and disease. An outpost whose only purpose is survival ­– refuge from the creatures that hunt beyond.

'Sold then raised hard in the System, the Orphan has a mission, carries secrets about the destruction that brought the world to its knees. And she's about to discover that the past still holds power over the present.

'Given an impossible choice, will the Orphan save the only home she knows or see it returned to dust? Both paths lead to blood, but whose will be spilled?' (Publication Summary)

2017 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novel
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