
The Virus is Here: Pandemics in Fiction
with Emily St. John Mandel and Laura Jean McKay
STREAM IT FROM HOME OR ENJOY IT IN THE GARDEN
with Patrick Allington and Dennis Glover / Chaired by Geordie Williamson
In Patrick Allington’s Rise & Shine, an environmental apocalypse has wiped out most of the population. Those that survive are nourished – literally – by the consumption of violent footage from the perpetual war waged between the two city-states of Rise and Shine. In Dennis Glover’s Factory 19, a Walshian figure leads a willing cohort back to the future to an enclave in Tasmania, where they search for happiness in an industrialised past. Both books offer surreal and darkly satirical takes on leadership, humanity and the common good.