2020 Ditmar Award for Best Novel
2019 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee)
Humankind is in danger.
The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafes with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive?
Polack describes her novel as, "Bleak. It's political. It's angry. It's also sarcastic, cynical and funny."
Genre: Science Fiction
The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafes with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive?
Polack describes her novel as, "Bleak. It's political. It's angry. It's also sarcastic, cynical and funny."
Genre: Science Fiction
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