Rise & Shine

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Pub Date 2 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 28 Feb 2021

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Description

Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them — literally.

In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Shine. Yet this war, far from representing their doom, is their means of survival. For their leaders have found the key to life when crops, livestock, and the very future have been blighted — a key that turns on each citizen being moved by human suffering. Yet is this small hope, this compassion, enough to sustain them against the despair born of all the friends they’ve lost, all the experience they’ll never know? Or must they succumb to, or even embrace, darker desires?

Rise & Shine is a tale that speaks to our troubled times, a Kafkaesque fable of hope from the imagination of Miles Franklin nominee Patrick Allington.

Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them — literally.

In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle...


Advance Praise

‘You never knew fiction could do this.’

—Jane Rawson, author of From the Wreck


‘A novel of rare visionary brilliance, Rise & Shine blew me away.’

— Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt


‘Fiercely imaginative and astonishingly written.’

— Robbie Arnott, author of Flames and The Rain Heron


‘[Rise & Shine] could easily be an episode of Charlie Brooker’s Netflix series Black MirrorRise & Shine does not shy away from the complex moral terrain of political agency. Carefully, subtly, Allington lets the tension between multiple propositions build: that law and order form a part of collective survival; that service of the people can easily slip into control of the people; that people want a leader; that effective leadership requires multiple perspectives; that people can change; that some people don’t. Allington sustains the tension until the final pages, where he offers a thought-provoking ending worthy of his imaginative take on dystopia.’

— Naama Grey-Smith, Australian Book Review


‘There is a definite Kafkaesque air to Allington’s writing, as well as echoes of 1984 and Brave New World … The dialogue is one of the great strengths of Rise & Shine: buoyantly paced, drolly comic and easily absorbing … Rise & Shine is apt reading for our current atmosphere of environmental, societal and economic precarity. It is an undeniably imaginative and engrossing fable.’

Jack Callil, The Age


Rise & Shine is a piece of timely, suitably intriguing speculative fiction.’

Ben Adams, Herald Sun


‘Patrick Allington’s Rise & Shine, drops us headfirst into a future in the wake of an ecological catastrophe that claimed the lives of more than eight billion people … The novel strikes a balance between the absurd and the horrific that feels reminiscent of George Saunders’ science-fiction work.’

Jack Rowland, The Saturday Paper

‘You never knew fiction could do this.’

—Jane Rawson, author of From the Wreck


‘A novel of rare visionary brilliance, Rise & Shine blew me away.’

— Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt


‘Fiercely...


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ISBN 9781925938364
PRICE A$24.99 (AUD)
PAGES 240

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