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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Salt
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'Sando and Hedda break out of Sydney, the walled city of 2075, into an Australia decimated by civil strife, rising salt levels and unbearably hot temperatures. Their flight to this salt-encrusted otherworld forces them to face its unimaginable inhabitants, bred in a secret weapons laboratory'. Source: author's website.

Notes

  • Dedication: For all my brothers and sisters, and for Stephen, Matthew, Sabina, Simon and David.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Zout
Language: Dutch

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording and large print.

Works about this Work

Climate and Culture in Australia and New Zealand C. A. Cranston , Charles Dawson , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Global History of Literature and the Environment 2016; (p. 237-253)

'Like a template for a climate-changing world, Australia – the driest inhabited continent on Earth – exists in an imaginative and emotional landscape shaped from extremities. Situated within the geopolitical region of Australasia/Oceania, Australia’s trans-Tasman relations with earthquake-prone Aotearoa (“land of the long white cloud”) began in 1788 when New Zealand was included within the British colony of New South Wales. New Zealand, however, was never a penal colony and separation from its rough cousin came after Māori (consolidated under a single language) signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the British Crown in 1840 – itself a marker of difference between the First Nations of both countries. Australian Aborigines, scattered across the continent, each nation speaking its own language – saw land rights withheld under the illegal fiction of terra nullius, “nobody’s land.”'

Source: Introduction.

Climate Change Novels Deborah Jordan , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 15-32)
'Climate Scientists warn of the dangers of global warming. How are Australian writers responding to this crisis? The first section of the book examines the stories by women and men writers directly about climate change scenarios. Notable authors are George Turner and Alexis Wright. ' (15)
The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord Peter Pierce , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 19 no. 2 1999; (p. 186-195)
Star Trek - The Australian Feminist Generation Tracy Meszaros , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 6 no. 4 1994; (p. 6-8)
Untitled Kevin Murray , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 16)

— Review of Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel ; The House in the Rainforest Sophie Masson , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Kevin Murray , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , December and vol. 6 no. 1 January vol. 5 no. 12 1991; (p. 16)

— Review of Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel ; The House in the Rainforest Sophie Masson , 1990 single work novel
Books Noticed Bill Tully , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Blast , Spring no. 13/14 1990; (p. 32-33)

— Review of Schemetime Sara Dowse , 1990 single work novel ; The Bluebird Cafe Carmel Bird , 1990 single work novel ; The Country Without Music Nicholas Hasluck , 1990 single work novel ; Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel ; The Story of the Year of 1912 in the Village of Elza Darzins : A Novel Thea Welsh , 1990 single work novel ; Poppy Drusilla Modjeska , 1990 single work novel
War Scouts Face Bandits in the Arctic Stan Barney , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 April 1991; (p. 23)

— Review of Only One Adam Elizabeth Gittins , 1991 single work novel ; Browning in Buckskin : From the Tapes and Papers of Richard Browning Peter Corris , 1991 single work novel ; Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel ; The Search for Harry Allway Alex Buzo , 1985 single work novel ; Red on White Kit Denton , 1991 single work novel
Diverse Visions of Australia's Future Colin Steele , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 15 September 1990; (p. B10)

— Review of Rynosseros Terry Dowling , 1990 selected work short story ; My Lady Tongue and Other Tales Lucy Sussex , 1990 selected work short story ; Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel
Wide Horizons: Australian Science Fiction Brian Forte , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Editions , March-April no. 10 1991; (p. 13-14)

— Review of Rynosseros Terry Dowling , 1990 selected work short story ; Reaching Tin River Thea Astley , 1990 single work novel ; A Pursuit of Miracles : Eight Stories George Turner , 1990 selected work short story ; Salt Gabrielle Lord , 1990 single work novel ; My Lady Tongue and Other Tales Lucy Sussex , 1990 selected work short story
Star Trek - The Australian Feminist Generation Tracy Meszaros , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , December vol. 6 no. 4 1994; (p. 6-8)
The Fiction of Gabrielle Lord Peter Pierce , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 19 no. 2 1999; (p. 186-195)
Apocalypse: Sydney 2075 Susan Chenery , 1990 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 12 August 1990; (p. 35)
Lord of Darkness Marcia Van Zeller , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The West Australian Magazine , 11-17 August 1990; (p. 20-21)
Climate Change Novels Deborah Jordan , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 15-32)
'Climate Scientists warn of the dangers of global warming. How are Australian writers responding to this crisis? The first section of the book examines the stories by women and men writers directly about climate change scenarios. Notable authors are George Turner and Alexis Wright. ' (15)
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