Dark Harvest

Multiple award-winning author Cat Sparks writes science fiction with a distinctly Australian flavour – stories steeped in the desperate anarchy of Mad Max futures, redolent with scorching sun and the harshness of desert sands, but her narratives reach deeper than that. In her tales of ordinary people adapting to post-apocalyptic futures, she casts a light on what it means to be human; the good and the bad, the noble and the shameful.

Dark Harvest gathers together Cat’s best short fiction of recent years, as selected by the author herself: fourteen stories, two of them novelettes, including one brand new tale and two Ditmar Award winners.

CONTENTS:
Hot Rods
Cassini Falling
Hacking Santorini
Dragon Girl
You Will Remember Who You Were
Fata Morgana
Before Dominica
The Seventh Relic
And the Ship Sails On
Jericho Blush
No Fat Chicks
Veterans Day
Dark Harvest
Prayers to Broken Stone

“Cat Sparks’ ‘Fata Morgana’… is the kind of post-apocalyptic war-machine creepy motherhood fiction that I really want to see.” – Liz Bourke at Tor.com

“This is a profoundly strange and evocative tale of a world haunted by shadows and ghosts, war and despair… I re-read this piece a couple of times, just to savour the prose and the ever-twisting and shifting layers of reality.” – Maria Haskins (of Prayers to Broken Stone)

“Forget the Mad Max comparisons: Sparks is far more ambitious than that.” – Peter Watts, author of Blindsight

“Vivid, compelling, and relentless, Cat Sparks makes you care about the soul of a mecha future as you hang onto the edge, feeling the sandy grit between your teeth.” – Tina LeCount Myers, author of The Song of All

“Sparks captures the overlapping banter of soldiers perfectly. Hints and ideas are wonderfully woven to create a view of the world as the group of mercenaries encounter terrifying super-soldiers and the even weirder ‘nuns’.” – Bookbeard’s Blog (of Dark Harvest)


Genre: Science Fiction