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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Fire Sermon Trilogy
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y separately published work icon The Fire Sermon Francesca Haig , United Kingdom (UK) : HarperCollins Australia , 2015 8403299 2015 single work novel fantasy

'Born as twins. Raised as enemies.

'One strong Alpha twin and one mutated Omega; the only thing they share is the moment of their death.

'The Omegas live in segregation, cast out by their families as soon as their mutation becomes clear. Forced to live apart, they are ruthlessly oppressed by their Alpha counterparts.

'The Alphas are the elite. Once their weaker twin has been cast aside, they’re free to live in privilege and safety, their Omega twin far from their thoughts.

'Cass and Zach are both perfect on the outside: no missing limbs, no visible Omega mutation. But Cass has a secret: one that Zach will stop at nothing to expose.

'The potential to change the world lies in both their hands. One will have to defeat the other to see their vision of the future come to pass, but if they’re not careful both will die in the struggle for power.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (HarperCollins)

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y separately published work icon The Map of Bones Francesca Haig , United Kingdom (UK) : HarperCollins Australia , 2016 9050994 2016 single work novel fantasy

'Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha—physically perfect in every way; and the other an Omega—burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world’s sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort, Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: whenever one twin dies, so does the other.

'Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side-by-side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Simon and Schuster).

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y separately published work icon The Forever Ship Francesca Haig , London : Voyager , 2017 13270463 2017 single work novel fantasy

'Paloma's arrival, with news of Elsewhere and the possibility of a world free of the fatal bond between twins, has given Cass and the resistance a hope worth fighting for.

'But they are facing a Council more powerful and ruthless than Cass could ever have imagined, willing to unleash weapons from the long-buried past to maintain their power over Alphas and Omegas alike.

'As the stunning Fire Sermon trilogy comes to a close, a struggle has begun not only for the future of Elsewhere but for the future of the whole world. And what started with fire may end with fire.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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First known date: 2015

Works about this Work

Francesca Haig and Rachel Edwards in Conversation Rachel Edwards (interviewer), 2017 single work interview
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
'Last Christmas, London-based poet and novelist Francesca Haig returned to Tasmania for a family visit, something of a regular pilgrimage given she's returning home this Christmas too. During her stay, she took time out to visit Fullers Bookshop in Hobart where she spoke with Rachel Edwards about her 'Fire Sermon' trilogy, a post-apocalyptic story published in more than twenty languages and shortlisted for The Morningstar Award (best debut novel) in the 2016 David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy, the 2015 R.T. Book Reviews award (best science fiction novel), the 2016 Norma K Hemming Award and the 2016 Aurealis Award (best young adult novel).' (Introduction)
Light in Dark Places : An Interview with Francesca Haig Chris Large (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 93 2016; (p. 35-41)
Light in Dark Places : An Interview with Francesca Haig Chris Large (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 93 2016; (p. 35-41)
Francesca Haig and Rachel Edwards in Conversation Rachel Edwards (interviewer), 2017 single work interview
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
'Last Christmas, London-based poet and novelist Francesca Haig returned to Tasmania for a family visit, something of a regular pilgrimage given she's returning home this Christmas too. During her stay, she took time out to visit Fullers Bookshop in Hobart where she spoke with Rachel Edwards about her 'Fire Sermon' trilogy, a post-apocalyptic story published in more than twenty languages and shortlisted for The Morningstar Award (best debut novel) in the 2016 David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy, the 2015 R.T. Book Reviews award (best science fiction novel), the 2016 Norma K Hemming Award and the 2016 Aurealis Award (best young adult novel).' (Introduction)
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