Bargain @ $1.99 for today only (Nov 13th) as Weightless Books' weekly 1-day sale featured selection (regularly $6.99; DRM-free):
Trucksong by Melbourne author Andrew Macrae, his debut post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction coming-of-age adventure novel, out from Australian small publisher Twelth Planet Press. This apparently evolved from his PhD thesis for creative writing involving experimental language usage, and there's a freebie version of the novel written in the "decayed" dialect he created
available on his website, along with a soundtrack of free-to-stream music as well, and some tie-in short stories.
Innovative, moving and exquisitely written, Trucksong is a coming-of-age story about how the only meaning to be found in a world in slow decay is that which you make for yourself.
In a post-apocalyptic Australian landscape dominated by free-wheeling cyborgs, a young man goes in searches for his lost lover who has been kidnapped by a rogue AI truck, the Brumby King.
Along the way, he teams with Sinnerman, an independent cyborg truck with its own reasons for hating the Brumby King.
Before his final confrontation with the brumbies, he must learn more about the broken-down world and his own place in it – and then face his worst fears.
A wildly inventive dystopian debut novel by Melbourne author Andrew Macrae about lost love, cyborg trucks and the search for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Trucksong is Macrae’s debut novel, emerging from a PhD thesis in creative writing at Victoria University in Melbourne using an experimental approach to language. The text used a form of specialised grapholect, like that found in A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting or Riddley Walker, to represent the linguistic decay in the world of the novel. This version is available for download from the ‘Extras’ section of the Trucksong website.