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Salvage
2025
First Published
4.33
Average Rating
400
Number of Pages

Two estranged sisters reconnect in the aftermath of ecological and social collapse, in this work of suspenseful, deeply human literary speculative fiction. They drift in their sleep, waiting for something. The end of the world, or another escape. But the world is still here. There's no escaping it. Jude's life has been about survival. She works on rebuilding - fixes roofs, trucks supplies, transports refugees. Tries to stay free from attachments and obligations. But Jude won't talk about her past. Or her sister Celeste, lost in the tragic failure of a space station that was supposed to save her, and the other ultra-rich, from the wreckage of a dying world. When an escape pod falls from the sky, its passenger near death, Jude knows her anonymous existence can't continue. As the fragile peace of her community is put at risk, Jude must re-examine the terms of her survival - and her exile. Salvage is a gripping novel of literary speculative fiction that what does it mean to care for each other, after the end of the world? Praise for Salvage: 'Urgent, beautiful and profoundly compassionate. Salvage is necessary reading.' - James Bradley 'Salvage is an incredible novel of great imagination and prescience that asks how we might live in the wake of ecological collapse, and - more importantly - what we might live for. Jennifer Mills is the real an author who never loses sight of what it means to be human, even when writing a speculative future so familiar it seems inevitable. I loved it.' - Hannah Kent 'Jennifer Mills is one of Australia's best writers. No one does speculative fiction as poetically or tenderly or compassionately as she does. Salvage offers a rare evocation of the heartbreaking, tender, tough and hopeful.' - Alice Robinson

Avg Rating
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Author

Jennifer Mills
Jennifer Mills
Author · 7 books
Jennifer Mills is the author of five books: the novels The Airways (Picador, 2021), Dyschronia (Picador, 2018; shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award for Literature and the 2019 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel), Gone (2011), and The Diamond Anchor (2009), and a collection of short stories, The Rest is Weight (2012). In 2012 Mills was named a Best Young Australian Novelist by the Sydney Morning Herald and in 2014 was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship from the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Mills lives on Kaurna Yerta.
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