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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Eta Draconis
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'Elora is leaving her hometown for university. Leaving behind friends, family, and safety to follow her dream of studying theatre while she still has the chance.

'Together, Elora and her older sister, Vivienne, set out by road for the city and the upcoming semester. The relationship between them is fractured and fading, turned upside down by Eta Draconis: the violent meteor shower that has rained across Earth since the beginning of their adolescence. In a land scarred by craters and shockwaves, to travel anywhere is to risk everything. As the showering intensifies and their way forward becomes threatened, the sisters are forced to confront their relationship and recalibrate their hopes for the future. Do they return home or press on in the face of the meteors? Can life ever be normal with the world crashing down all around you?

'Eta Draconis is an epic story about two resilient sisters who are determined to live their life in a world on the brink of destruction.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2023 .
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      Extent: 300p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published May 2023.
      ISBN: 9781760802615

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Book Review : Eta Draconis, Brendan Ritchie Ned Hirst , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2023;

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel

'An award-winning 'cli-fi' novel tracks two sisters as they make their way in a dying world.'

Brendan Ritchie : Eta Draconis Ann Skea , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2023;

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel
'Winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award, Brendan Ritchie’s third novel is set in a dystopian Western Australia, the landscape pummelled by meteor showers.'
Polycrisis : Coming of Age in a Collapsing World J.R. Burgmann , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 457 2023; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel ; The Comforting Weight of Water Roanna McClelland , 2023 single work novel

'At a time when the world strains under the pressure of multiple crises, it stands to reason that coming of age might no longer hold the same literary value it once did. This ‘polycrisis’ encompasses not only the convergence of myriad catastrophic events – climate change, war, Covid-19, the resurgence of fascism, etc. – but also the failure of metanarratives or belief systems to mitigate against these. Amid all this unprecedentedness, the rise of an anti-Bildungsroman sentiment hardly surprises. In different ways, both Brendan Ritchie’s Eta Draconis and Roanna McClelland’s The Comforting Weight of Water attend to the central question: how does one come of age in a collapsing world? It’s a line of enquiry that just so happens to reflect Franco Moretti’s critique of the Bildungsroman genre in The Way of the WorldThe Bildungsroman in European culture (1987), articulating how the novel of youth upholds the myth of Western modernity and progress.'(Introduction)

Books Roundup Simon McDonald , Mindy Gill , Duncan Strachan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2023;

— Review of After the Rain Aisling Smith , 2023 single work novel ; Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel
Books Roundup Simon McDonald , Mindy Gill , Duncan Strachan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2023;

— Review of After the Rain Aisling Smith , 2023 single work novel ; Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel
Polycrisis : Coming of Age in a Collapsing World J.R. Burgmann , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 457 2023; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel ; The Comforting Weight of Water Roanna McClelland , 2023 single work novel

'At a time when the world strains under the pressure of multiple crises, it stands to reason that coming of age might no longer hold the same literary value it once did. This ‘polycrisis’ encompasses not only the convergence of myriad catastrophic events – climate change, war, Covid-19, the resurgence of fascism, etc. – but also the failure of metanarratives or belief systems to mitigate against these. Amid all this unprecedentedness, the rise of an anti-Bildungsroman sentiment hardly surprises. In different ways, both Brendan Ritchie’s Eta Draconis and Roanna McClelland’s The Comforting Weight of Water attend to the central question: how does one come of age in a collapsing world? It’s a line of enquiry that just so happens to reflect Franco Moretti’s critique of the Bildungsroman genre in The Way of the WorldThe Bildungsroman in European culture (1987), articulating how the novel of youth upholds the myth of Western modernity and progress.'(Introduction)

Brendan Ritchie : Eta Draconis Ann Skea , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2023;

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel
'Winner of the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award, Brendan Ritchie’s third novel is set in a dystopian Western Australia, the landscape pummelled by meteor showers.'
Book Review : Eta Draconis, Brendan Ritchie Ned Hirst , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , June 2023;

— Review of Eta Draconis Brendan Ritchie , 2023 single work novel

'An award-winning 'cli-fi' novel tracks two sisters as they make their way in a dying world.'

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