Half Trace is an extraordinary Australian speculative story from a voice lost before readers could experience him. Environmental warrior Bryn Ellis melds epic span with lyric naturalism and protean invention to forge a futurist, root-bound sci-fi and fantasy world-build the like of which literature has never experienced.
More than a hundred years after Curlewalion brought the World American Reform government to its knees, that self-declared monochrome world authority has patiently entrenched its martial power, as well as its economic rulership, via an integrated psychic reward system for its stock and trade workers. Meanwhile the nation of millions of refugees and free thinkers, Curlewalion, annexed from the north of Australia, is flourishing and still safe from hover attack behind its mysterious storm border. But not for long.