"Inala"

2020 Griffen, Ryan. “Inala.” In Liam Young (b. 1979). Planet City. Ed. Andrew Mackenzie (Melbourne, Vic, Australia: Uro Publications, 2020), 179-189. PSt 978-0-648858-7-6

Part of elaborate project by Liam Young, an Australian film-director and architect imagining a future city the incorporated the entire world’s population so as to let the rest of the Earth recover from the damage done to it. The story concerns how an Aboriginal community keeps in contact with their roots in the single city on Earth when the rest of the planet has been left to rewild. For the book see 2020 Young. For other stories set in the world of Planet City, see 2020 Hopkinson and 2020 Robinson as well as two stories translated from Chinese in the book, Chen Quifan, “A micro pilgrimage.” Trans. Emily Jin (283-288, 313-318) and Xia. Jia, “From Mars to Earth.” Trans. Andy Dudak (335-336, 361-366). The Aboriginal (Gamilaraay) Australian author created the Aboriginal superhero Cleverman comic books and TV series.