“Fifteen Days on Mars”

Title“Fifteen Days on Mars”
Year for Search2022
AuthorsKwaymullina, Ambelin(b. 1975)
Secondary AuthorsIsmail, Rafeif, and van Neerven, Ellen(b. 1990)
Secondary TitleUnlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction
Pagination42-65
Date Published2022
PublisherFremantle Press in association with Djed Press
Place PublishedNorth Fremantle, WA, Australia
ISBN Number978-1-760990701
KeywordsAboriginal author, Australian author, Female author
Annotation

A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled.

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Author Note

The female author (b. 1975) is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia and teaches law at the University of Western Australia.

Full Text

2022 Kwaymullina, Ambelin (b. 1975). “Fifteen Days on Mars.” Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction. Ed. Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (North Fremantle, WA, Australia: Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press, 2022), 42-65. PSt

A dystopia set in a standard Australian suburb, which is Mars to the Aboriginal protagonist, where she lives with her mother who was hoping to help the suburbanites understand the powers of the land where they had settled. The female author is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia and teaches law at the University of Western Australia.