Orion's Web Ebook

How far will a mother go to save her child?

A captivating and immersive futuristic fantasy adventure set against a backdrop of the Australian landscape.

In a world where humanity is confined to climate-controlled domes, Outdwellers, Anna and Gardner must make it across the New Desert to find treatment for their daughter who is about to undergo her very first Change.

Faulk Parker is trying to stop them. He has never missed a target, but this family is proving his most challenging yet.

From a vast landscape to the glittering confines of the city, Faulk, Anna and Gardner become more than hunter and hunted, and find themselves challenged to question their own most deeply held truths.

Order and wildness are on a collision course, and time for Anna and her family is fast running out...

Kirkus Reviews: "A subtle, smartly crafted thriller that balances melancholy and hope."

About this book

• Title: Orion's Web
• Author: Alexandra Manfield, an Australian author with a background in plant ecology, based in the Yarra Valley, Victoria
• Series: The Curwood Chronicles, a series of connected standalone novels set in Australia
• Where it fits: A standalone novel that can be read at any point in the series
• Genre: Futuristic sci-fi fantasy (near-future science fiction fantasy); nature fantasy and climate fiction (cli-fi) with supernatural elements
• Setting: An altered, futuristic Melbourne and a climate-changed Australia, between the domed city and the New Desert
• Themes: Motherhood, humanity's relationship with the natural world, and hunter and hunted
• You'll find: A mother's race to save her daughter, a dingo shapeshifter, a domed city spun from silk, an assassin on their trail, and hope in a climate-changed world
• For readers who love: Charlotte McConaghy, James Bradley, and Isobelle Carmody's Obernewtyn
• Suitable for: Adult readers. Contains adult themes and some violence
• Format: Ebook
• ISBN: 9780645399400
• Publisher: Spindle Press, 2022
• Also available: Paperback and hardback