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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My heartfelt thanks to Ian See, Aviva Tuffield, Cora Kipling, Miriam Rosenbloom and the whole team at Scribe; to my agent, Clare Forster, at Curtis Brown; to all the editors who first chose to include these tales in prior publications; and to my loved ones and friends, for being there.
ALSO BY MEG MUNDELL
BLACK GLASS
Finalist in the 2011 Aurealis Awards (Science Fiction Novel and YA Novel categories)
Highly commended in the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award
Shortlisted for the 2012 Chronos Awards (Best Long Fiction)
â
Black Glass
is a superb debut novel. Meg Mundell has invented a compelling futuristic version of our urban world.' â Chris Womersley
âIt's the unsettling combination of the known and the unknown that gives Mundell's work a real edge â¦
Black Glass
is thoughtful, intelligent fiction.' â Sophie Cunningham,
Readings Monthly
âBrooding, surreal and vulnerable,
Black Glass
marks the arrival of a striking new voice. A brilliant debut.' â James Bradley
Tally and Grace are teenage sisters living on the outskirts of society, dragged from one no-hope town to the next by their fugitive father. When an explosion rips their lives apart, they flee separately to the city.
The girls had always imagined that beyond the remote regions lay another, brighter world: glamorous, promising, full of luck. But as each soon discovers, if you arrive there broke, homeless, and alone, the city is a dangerous place â a place where commerce and surveillance rule, and undocumented people like themselves are confined to life's shady margins. Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other â or just to survive.
Narrated by a cast of unforgettable characters,
Black Glass
is the work of an exceptional new talent.
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Versions of these stories were first published elsewhere: âNightshade',
New Australian Stories
(Scribe, 2009); âThe Tower',
The Best Australian Stories 2010
(Black Inc., 2010;); âSoft Landing',
The Sleepers Almanac 2006: The Nervous System
(Sleepers, 2006); âThe Chamber',
New Australian Stories 2
(Scribe, 2010); âVermilion',
Meanjin
and
Encounters: Modern Australian Stories
(Five Mile Press, 2006); âNarcosis',
Australian Book Review
and hermanocerdo.com (translated into Spanish); âThe Cone Machine',
The Big Issue
; âSmall Change',
Eureka Street
and
Summer Shorts
(Scribe, 2012).
A cataloguing-in-publication data record is available from the National Library of Australia