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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)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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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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Explainer : 'Solarpunk', or How to Be an Optimistic Radical
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)
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The Island Will Sink Review : Briohny Doyle's Debut Novel Tackles an Ecodisaster
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 2 September 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Question of Identity as a Disaster Looms
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 2016 single work novel -
Briohny Doyle : The Island Will Sink.
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel
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Emotional Tide Surges through Postmodern Tale
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 July 2016; (p. 23)
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Briohny Doyle, The Island Will Sink
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 6 August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Dystopia Scenario Takes Filmic Cues
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 21 August 2016; (p. 5)
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Immersed in the Apocalypse
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2016; (p. 15)
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Briohny Doyle : The Island Will Sink.
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2016;
— Review of The Island Will Sink 2016 single work novel -
Explainer : 'Solarpunk', or How to Be an Optimistic Radical
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
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)
Awards
- 2017 shortlisted Most Underrated Book Award
- 2017 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year
- 2017 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — The Matt Richell Award for New Writer