“Terranora”

Title“Terranora”
Year for Search2020
AuthorsSaunders, Mykaela
Secondary TitleCollisions: Fictions of the Future
Pagination88-100
Date Published2020
PublisherPamtera Press
Place PublishedSeaforth, NSW, Australia
ISBN Number9780648795186 978-0702265662
KeywordsAboriginal author, Australian author, Female author
Annotation

An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.

Author Note

Aboriginal (Koori) female, queer, and working-class author of Dharug and Lebanese descent.

Full Text

2020 Saunders, Mykaela. “Terranora.” Collisions: Fictions of the Future (Seaforth, NSW, Australia: Pantera Press, 2020), 88-100. Rpt. in This All Come Back Now: An Anthology of First Nations Speculative Fiction. Ed. Mykaela Saunders (St. Lucia, Qld, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 2022), 247-266, with a note on the author at 248.

An Aboriginal group in a future impacted by climate change rescues prisoners and brings them to an area resettled by the original inhabitants. The story concerns one of the ex-prisoners who doesn’t seem to fit in. The ending suggests that other stories centering on the characters might be forthcoming. Aboriginal (Koori) female, queer, and working-class author of Dharug and Lebanese descent.