DIEMENS
‘A cracking tale that closely follows the historical context’
—Aunty Patsy Cameron
‘I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to this infernal place at the mercy of a pitiless wind … a place where the western winds howl ceaselessly and rain pours down in sheets from the maw of a black sky.’
DIEMENS is a tale of Tasmania’s origins like no other, a story of how two worlds collide, transforming colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
George Baggs, a young Englishman exiled from his homeland, is crewed aboard a Bass Strait sealing ship. Fleeing the cruelty of his masters, Baggs and friend Jimmy Brown are saved by the kindness of northeast Aboriginal Tasmanian clansmen.
DIEMENS follows the colony’s first decades told through the lens of a family destined to shape Tasmanian history.
Diemens is now available for order from Forty South.
More places to buy coming soon!
—Aunty Patsy Cameron
‘I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to this infernal place at the mercy of a pitiless wind … a place where the western winds howl ceaselessly and rain pours down in sheets from the maw of a black sky.’
DIEMENS is a tale of Tasmania’s origins like no other, a story of how two worlds collide, transforming colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
George Baggs, a young Englishman exiled from his homeland, is crewed aboard a Bass Strait sealing ship. Fleeing the cruelty of his masters, Baggs and friend Jimmy Brown are saved by the kindness of northeast Aboriginal Tasmanian clansmen.
DIEMENS follows the colony’s first decades told through the lens of a family destined to shape Tasmanian history.
Diemens is now available for order from Forty South.
More places to buy coming soon!
COMPLICITY CITY
Complicity City is a domestic noir in the style of Megan Abbott's The End of Everything. The book is set in Perth, Western Australia. It is the story of one woman’s quest for justice for her slain friend Klara, and the dark deeds and secret men’s business she uncovers along the way.
Complicity City is available via Amazon.
Complicity City is available via Amazon.
YELLOWCAKE SUMMER
Winner (Best Fiction) IP Rolling Picks 2013
Winner (Best Fiction) IP Rolling Picks 2013
YELLOWCAKE SPRINGS
Shortlisted for the Norma K Hemming Award 2012
Winner (Best Fiction) IP Picks 2011
Synopsis written by Candice Fox of Interactive Publications:
Welcome to Yellowcake Springs; a pristine, friendly, secure community of citizens involved in the maintenance of one of Western Australia’s CIQ Sinocorp nuclear reactor facilities. You have nothing to fear inside the heavily-guarded community, nestled in the quiet streets between the radiation Red Zone and the razor-wired fences. Raise a family. Go to the park. Watch the sun set between the cooling towers. Lament the desperate lives of the lost ones living in the darklands outside the community, where overpopulation and starvation have created a lawless world. Feel lucky. You belong to CIQ Sinocorp now.
Author Guy Salvidge leads the reader through a time where an unchecked global population has created a slow, painful apocalypse for all but the elite. Inside Yellowcake Springs, the protection of CIQ Sinocorp provides security, employment and endless leisure in the constructed worlds of Controlled Dreaming State, where citizens using avatars can abandon their inhibitions and responsibilities. Inside the amber zone, Sylvia enjoys a carefree if mundane existence as an advertising consultant with her husband David, whose radical environmentalist interests provide endless gossip for her co-workers. In Controlled Dreaming State she meets Rion, a stranger from beyond the gates.
Outside Yellowcake Springs, Rion wanders a wasteland gripped by disease, famine and crime. His only chance to escape the darklands is through an affair with Sylvia, a woman from the inside. As he heads toward Yellowcake Springs, Ryan unwittingly becomes tangled in the sordid plans of Misanthropos; an environmental terrorist group whose plan to lower the earth’s population and destabilise CIQ Sinocorp will cost many innocent lives.
At the heart of the facility, Jiang Wei begins his training in the Controlled Waking State, the brainchild of Sinocorp employee Yang Po. Wei finds himself helpless to the whims of Yang Po’s experiments, which see Wei’s body and mind enslaved to the control of the corporation. As Wei, Sylvia and Rion’s lives converge in Yellowcake Springs, Salvidge’s novel promises devastation and terror against the backdrop of a frighteningly plausible Australian future. [CP]
On Amazon you can buy it in Kindle edition or Print edition
If you buy it from The Book Depository you'll receive free postage.
Welcome to Yellowcake Springs; a pristine, friendly, secure community of citizens involved in the maintenance of one of Western Australia’s CIQ Sinocorp nuclear reactor facilities. You have nothing to fear inside the heavily-guarded community, nestled in the quiet streets between the radiation Red Zone and the razor-wired fences. Raise a family. Go to the park. Watch the sun set between the cooling towers. Lament the desperate lives of the lost ones living in the darklands outside the community, where overpopulation and starvation have created a lawless world. Feel lucky. You belong to CIQ Sinocorp now.
Author Guy Salvidge leads the reader through a time where an unchecked global population has created a slow, painful apocalypse for all but the elite. Inside Yellowcake Springs, the protection of CIQ Sinocorp provides security, employment and endless leisure in the constructed worlds of Controlled Dreaming State, where citizens using avatars can abandon their inhibitions and responsibilities. Inside the amber zone, Sylvia enjoys a carefree if mundane existence as an advertising consultant with her husband David, whose radical environmentalist interests provide endless gossip for her co-workers. In Controlled Dreaming State she meets Rion, a stranger from beyond the gates.
Outside Yellowcake Springs, Rion wanders a wasteland gripped by disease, famine and crime. His only chance to escape the darklands is through an affair with Sylvia, a woman from the inside. As he heads toward Yellowcake Springs, Ryan unwittingly becomes tangled in the sordid plans of Misanthropos; an environmental terrorist group whose plan to lower the earth’s population and destabilise CIQ Sinocorp will cost many innocent lives.
At the heart of the facility, Jiang Wei begins his training in the Controlled Waking State, the brainchild of Sinocorp employee Yang Po. Wei finds himself helpless to the whims of Yang Po’s experiments, which see Wei’s body and mind enslaved to the control of the corporation. As Wei, Sylvia and Rion’s lives converge in Yellowcake Springs, Salvidge’s novel promises devastation and terror against the backdrop of a frighteningly plausible Australian future. [CP]
On Amazon you can buy it in Kindle edition or Print edition
If you buy it from The Book Depository you'll receive free postage.
REVIEWS
Dave Hyde, author of Pink Beam: A Philip K Dick Companion
Guy Salvidge writes simply and he knows how to engage the reader with a flat economy of words. When I reached the end of the book I wanted it to continue, I wanted to see how this bleak future Australia turned out. It all seemed so real to me that I wondered if such a place as Yellowcake Springs really existed somewhere north of Perth and east of the sea. Is Western Australia dotted by nuclear power stations owned and operated by the Chinese? Is it all so dry there, so damn desperate to survive for any forms of life?
Read the rest of the review below.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/333309214
Reflexiones Finales
Guy Salvidge’s Yellowcake Springs is a novel set within a slowly collapsing dystopian future set in Western Australia.The tone of the book is very close to the earlier cyberpunk novels without the glamour of the high tech wiz-bang gadgets of highly paid assassins or computer hackers. The gadgetry is replaced with a somber mix of overpopulation, economic decay, and environmental erosion. There is technical progress in evident, but its effects are muted within the overarching solemn background.
Read the rest of the review below.
http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2011/09/yellowcake-springs-review.html
Aya Danin
The 'world' that Guy Salvidge creates was so realistic I had to keep checking the view out my window to make sure it never changed. I ended up loving this book so much I bought it in hard copy so I could lend it to my friends to read (can't do that with a kindle). This is not really my genre, but i'm hooked and I can't wait for the author to bring out the next book!!
Read the rest of the review below.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Y51AMJ8SVJMA/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1921869178&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books
Guy Salvidge writes simply and he knows how to engage the reader with a flat economy of words. When I reached the end of the book I wanted it to continue, I wanted to see how this bleak future Australia turned out. It all seemed so real to me that I wondered if such a place as Yellowcake Springs really existed somewhere north of Perth and east of the sea. Is Western Australia dotted by nuclear power stations owned and operated by the Chinese? Is it all so dry there, so damn desperate to survive for any forms of life?
Read the rest of the review below.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/333309214
Reflexiones Finales
Guy Salvidge’s Yellowcake Springs is a novel set within a slowly collapsing dystopian future set in Western Australia.The tone of the book is very close to the earlier cyberpunk novels without the glamour of the high tech wiz-bang gadgets of highly paid assassins or computer hackers. The gadgetry is replaced with a somber mix of overpopulation, economic decay, and environmental erosion. There is technical progress in evident, but its effects are muted within the overarching solemn background.
Read the rest of the review below.
http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2011/09/yellowcake-springs-review.html
Aya Danin
The 'world' that Guy Salvidge creates was so realistic I had to keep checking the view out my window to make sure it never changed. I ended up loving this book so much I bought it in hard copy so I could lend it to my friends to read (can't do that with a kindle). This is not really my genre, but i'm hooked and I can't wait for the author to bring out the next book!!
Read the rest of the review below.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Y51AMJ8SVJMA/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1921869178&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books
THE KINGDOM OF FOUR RIVERS
The Kingdom of Four Rivers was published by Equilibrium Books in 2009. It's now exclusively available on Amazon Kindle.
REVIEWS
Reflexiones Finales
Guy Salvidge's The Kingdom of Four Rivers is a post apocalyptic novel set about 300 years after a collapse, and about 400 years from the present. [...] There are many wheels within wheels. Although it is not hammered over your head, there is a bit of conflict between the various high aspirations of what life should be, and the practical realities and limitations of what life actually can offer. The world and characters are very well developed. I do not recall anything that was overly graphic or sexually charged, so I don't think it would be beyond the bounds of a mature YA.
Read the rest of the review below.
http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdon-of-four-rivers-review.html
Guy Salvidge's The Kingdom of Four Rivers is a post apocalyptic novel set about 300 years after a collapse, and about 400 years from the present. [...] There are many wheels within wheels. Although it is not hammered over your head, there is a bit of conflict between the various high aspirations of what life should be, and the practical realities and limitations of what life actually can offer. The world and characters are very well developed. I do not recall anything that was overly graphic or sexually charged, so I don't think it would be beyond the bounds of a mature YA.
Read the rest of the review below.
http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdon-of-four-rivers-review.html
