12 collections, 12 authors, 12 months
Twelfth Planet Press announces the first collection in the Twelve Planets series to be released in January, 2011.
Nightsiders
by Sue Isle
In a future world of extreme climate change, Western Australia’s capital city, Perth, has been abandoned. Most of the state’s citizens were evacuated to the East by the late ’30s and organised infrastructure and services have gone. A few thousand obstinate and independent souls cling to the city and to the southern towns where, living mostly by night to endure the fierce temperatures, they are creating a new culture in defiance of official expectations. A teenage girl stolen from her family as a child; a troupe of street actors who affect their new culture with memories of the old; a boy born into the wrong body; and a teacher who is pushed into the role of guide tell the story of The Nightside.
Nightsiders comprises four stories: The Painted Girl, Nation of the Night, Paper Dragons and The Schoolteacher’s Tale