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y separately published work icon Emoto's Promise single work   novella   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Emoto's Promise
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'500 years after the Rise...

'The last remaining humans have become numans, dangerously enslaved by a virtual world called the BigDry.

'Wall Manager Macie is an 'incompatible,' unable to assimilate with numan technology due to a disability. As a lowly human, her job is to patch the cracks in the wall that encircles DarwinTwo, protecting the city from the encroaching sea water.

'When numans embark on a dangerous step which will change mankind forever, Macie's job becomes obsolete. There is no room in DarwinTwo for those who don't fit in.

'But perhaps that's exactly what numanity needs.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • Note: This work uses disability as a metaphorical note or literary device. The main character's "disability" is her genetic incompatibility with the technological enhancements received by the rest of the population; she is otherwise able-bodied, and this incompatibility is an advantage in the narrative.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yallourn North, La Trobe Valley, Gippsland, Victoria,: Deadset Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 178p.p.
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      • Published 29 February 2020.
      ISBN: 9780648797302, 0648797309
      Series: y separately published work icon Drowned Earth Yallourn North : Deadset Press , 2019-2020 18547192 2019 series - publisher novella science fiction

      A 'shared world' publisher-series, set in a near-future Australia where rapidly rising sea levels have displaced coastal cities.

      Individual novellas were written by individual Australian or New Zealand authors.

             Number in series: 7
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