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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Island Will Sink
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'The Island Will Sink is set decades from now - a not-too-distant future which is not so different. The energy crisis has come and gone. Cities have been rethought and redesigned, and EcoLaw is enforced by insidious cartoon Pandas and their armies of viral-marketing children. Max Galleon is a filmmaker of immersive cinema, a father to two children distressed by the world around, a distant husband, a brother to a comatose mystery man, and falling rapidly in love with a doctor who is not what she seems.'

'The Island Will Sink is a terrific postmodern science fiction novel in the vein of Michel Houellebecq and Phillip K. Dick, and marks the official breakthrough of a compelling literary talent.' (Source: Booktopia website)

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      :       Brow Books ,       2016 .
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      Extent: 299p.
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      • Published 1 August 2016
      ISBN: 9780994606808 (pbk), 099460680X
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From : The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 extract novel (The Island Will Sink)
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , September no. 31 2016; (p. 22-27) 'At dawn on Thursday the 17th of February Pitcairn Island drops 0.000785 mm below its last registered sea level. An EcoEvent 24-hour live feed covers the bedroom wall. It's the first thing I see when I wake up, groggy, high above central district. I blink and bring a detailed record of my unconscious hours into my peripheral vision. On it, cartoon lightning bolts storyboard a fitful, anxious sleep. For several minutes I lie still-clammy despite the climate control- watching a chopper circle that island like a bird of prey. Tiny children speckle the cliffs in antish processions, antennae waving at the clouds, giving the viewer the disorienting feeling of guilty, godlike voyeurism.' (Publication abstract)
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y separately published work icon At Home with Briohny Doyle Astrid Edwards (interviewer), Melbourne : Bad Producer Productions , 2021 23448440 2021 single work podcast interview

'Briohny Doyle is the author of The Island Will Sink, Echolalia and Adult Fantasy. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, The Good Weekend, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times.  She is a lecturer in writing and literature at Deakin University and a 2020 Fulbright Scholar.' (Production introduction)
Explainer : 'Solarpunk', or How to Be an Optimistic Radical Jennifer Hamilton , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 20 July 2017;

'Punks (of the 70s and 80s kind) were not known for their optimism. Quite the opposite in fact. Raging against the establishment in various ways, there was “no future” because, according to the Sex Pistols, punks are “the poison / In your human machine / We’re the future / Your future”. To be punk, was, by definition, to resist the future.

'In contrast, the most basic definition of solarpunk — offered by musician and photographer Jay Springett — is that it is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism' (Introduction)
The Island Will Sink Review : Briohny Doyle's Debut Novel Tackles an Ecodisaster Owen Richardson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 2 September 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Question of Identity as a Disaster Looms Owen Richardson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 September 2016; (p. 19) The Saturday Age , 3-4 September 2016; (p. 19)
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Briohny Doyle : The Island Will Sink. Folly Gleeson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Emotional Tide Surges through Postmodern Tale Pip Smith , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 July 2016; (p. 23)
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Briohny Doyle, The Island Will Sink JD , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Dystopia Scenario Takes Filmic Cues Linda Morris , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 August 2016; (p. 5)
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Immersed in the Apocalypse Linda Morris , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2016; (p. 15)
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Briohny Doyle : The Island Will Sink. Folly Gleeson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink Briohny Doyle , 2016 single work novel
Explainer : 'Solarpunk', or How to Be an Optimistic Radical Jennifer Hamilton , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Conversation , 20 July 2017;

'Punks (of the 70s and 80s kind) were not known for their optimism. Quite the opposite in fact. Raging against the establishment in various ways, there was “no future” because, according to the Sex Pistols, punks are “the poison / In your human machine / We’re the future / Your future”. To be punk, was, by definition, to resist the future.

'In contrast, the most basic definition of solarpunk — offered by musician and photographer Jay Springett — is that it is a movement in speculative fiction, art, fashion and activism' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon At Home with Briohny Doyle Astrid Edwards (interviewer), Melbourne : Bad Producer Productions , 2021 23448440 2021 single work podcast interview

'Briohny Doyle is the author of The Island Will Sink, Echolalia and Adult Fantasy. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, The Good Weekend, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times.  She is a lecturer in writing and literature at Deakin University and a 2020 Fulbright Scholar.' (Production introduction)
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