Vigorous and confident and richly authentic... the debut of a powerful and distinctive new voice.
Paul J McAuley
Interzone
Interesting and ambitious... so different from anything else around these days that it deserves attention.
Lisa Tuttle
Time Out
There are enough things wrong with this novel to sink the collected writings of Tolstoy and Dickens. And yet it works.
George Turner
SF Commentary
Paul Voermans
And Disregards the Rest
$19 AU
Estimated release date 13 Nov 2026
The Tempest. In the outback. What could go wrong?
a novel of alien contact and communication through time
34th anniversary edition

Donohoe Chronicles Book I: Melbourne 1978. Nigel Donohoe is a punk fish fancying geek. When he buys a radioactive Fools Gold Swordtail off the former Nazi Blither, he's transported to another Australia, where "rum, sodomy and the lash" never ended. It's still Melbourne. It's still 1978. But it's still a prison! And what the hell is BIGGLE?
Coming out Friday 13 November 2026 from Belicoso. Si! View product page →

The Post-Colonial Boy is the Donohoe Chronicles Book II
Direct sequel to The Weird Colonial Boy:
PTSD: not just individuals, whole generations, convicts and indigenous people, stolen children from all lands had it, migrants had it, and in the 80s it was “the people from bad homes, again and again” and Nigel had a particularly weird reason not to be cheerful. What to do? All the dumb things.
PTSD: not just individuals, whole generations, convicts and indigenous people, stolen children from all lands had it, migrants had it, and in the 80s it was “the people from bad homes, again and again” and Nigel had a particularly weird reason not to be cheerful. What to do? All the dumb things.

The White Library is The Donohoe Chronicles Book III
This book is not for you if you think people don't all have an animal inside them waiting to get out.
Angela Donohoe lives in an Australia that the Spanish colonised, sold to the British, and is now an empire. King Warren! Huzzah! It's not even called Australia. And Angela is not Nigel Donohoe. She's not like anybody at all, really. Very much herself.
The White Library is a take on many things: the invention of the internet, when we all thought it would democratise the world; a woman pretty far from neurotypical; The State Library of Victoria. It's also the story of love and betrayal. And an octopus.
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