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, demonstrates Coleman's promise as a creative storyteller.

If there's one weakness, it's the deluge of characters to accommodate. A delightfully duplicitous noodle-bender that flips the script on the Indigenous Australian survival narrative. Terra Nullius is a powerful, sobering piece of writing that makes us face an Australia we try to forget, but should always remember. While the outset of the book begins in a world with which we may be more familiar, the story swiftly transforms into a science-fiction sort of future in which the tensions between colonizers and colonized are explored from a distinctive perspective. American Association for Australian Literary Studies. ^ 'Book Reviews (subscription required)'.Coleman is not at all interested in being subtle about drawing these parallels, nor does she need to be: she gets her point across with powerful, disturbing, and often extremely violent portrayals of the subjugation of a native population that can't help but echo history. Artfully combining elements of literary, historical, and speculative fiction, this allegorical novel is surprising and unforgettable. It is an ambitious mirror for settler Australia – by no means prophetic, but revelatory. The reader is an observer who must sit between two apocalyptic colonial moments (one ongoing, one possible) – analogising the latter to better appreciate the former. Terra Nullius is a cleverly multiplicitous text. 2016 black&write! Indigenous Writers Fellowship winner.2017 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel shortlist.2018 Australian Book Industry Awards Matt Richell award for new writer of the year shortlist.2018 Ditmar Award Best New Talent nomination.2018 Australian Indie Book of the Year Debut Fiction longlist.

2018 Reading Women Award fiction shortlist.2018 Tin Duck Award for Best Professional Long Written Work winner.2018 Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction highly commended.

2019 International Dublin Literary Award longlist.2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards Debut shortlist.Terra Nullius has also been reviewed by Australian Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Locus, Antipodes, The Adelaide Review, ArtsHub, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. Judges of the Stella Prize called Terra Nullius 'an arresting and original novel', while a reviewer for the Sydney Review of Books described it as 'a cleverly multiplicitous text' and 'an ambitious mirror for settler Australia'. It draws from Australia's colonial history, describing a society split into 'Natives' and 'Settlers.' Terra Nullius is a 2017 speculative fiction novel by Claire G.

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