Straya, Anthony OConnor
Straya, Anthony OConnor
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Straya

Author: Anthony O'Connor

Narrator: Justin Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/08/2021


Synopsis

I love a sunburnt dystopia.Straya lies in ruins. A once proud nation, former Australia has regressed into a patchwork civilization cowering under the deadly heat of a merciless sun. Savage violence lurks around every corner. Good pubs, but.Affable young mutant, Franga, risks life and double-jointed limb to help provide for his makeshift family of mutie kids and increasingly senile friend and mentor, Ken Ages. After finding a strange artifact in the deadly Downlow district, Franga inadvertently starts a horrifying chain reaction...Something terrifying takes form in New Sydney. A colossal beast rises, as unspeakably powerful as it is malevolent, and if Franga and his crew of misfits can’t stop it? Then all of Straya is completely farked.Set in a futuristic Australia desperately coping with inequality, racism and the effects of climate change, Straya balances canny social allegory with subversive wit and an oddly optimistic sense of hope.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendon

What an amazing sci-fi/horror novel about a dystopian Sydney after Australia or 'Straya' as its pronounced by us Aussies has been destroyed. It follows our protagonist Franga who is a mutant and considered second class by the normal folk of New Sydney. There is a great devide between the rich, poor,......more

Goodreads review by Travis

Blisteringly funny, hyper-violent and relentlessly irreverent romp through post-apocalyptic Sydney. Young mutant Franga is used to fighting for survival on the mean streets of the Innasiddy but now finds himself battling for the future of the human race against a monstrous threat born out of the sor......more

Goodreads review by G.

I'm an old-as-the-hills video gamer who's no stranger to dystopian hellscapes. That said, I still found this post-calamity Oz to be equal parts horrifying, bloody and bloody hilarious. Not since “Trent From Punchie” (or possibly “Damo and Darren”) has the bogan essence of this country been as thorou......more

Goodreads review by Michala

I read this book straight after reading Dune, and I still thought this was great. It’s not Dune, but then what is? What it is though, is a whole lot of fun. Mad laughs. An even madder plot. The joy of reading a book in pseudostrine. Buckets and buckets of social commentary. A compelling world. Charac......more