AustLit

'The year is 2217 and every intelligence agency on Earth is preparing for the reopening of the portals to Eden.

'Earth's population is nearly five billion, resources are running low and all the major powers are running out of places to store their radioactive waste.

'This could spell the end of Eden as we know it.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'For three years the people of Eden have lived an idyllic life on a pristine planet with easy access to Earth. But the gateway is closing, leaving Eden potentially less perfect; and for the seven billion souls stuck on Earth, no Planet B.

'Woven from a web of intertwined subplots, Eden Unplugged charts the lives of Eden’s heroes and villains and the changes to society of a planet unplugged; a planet set adrift like teenagers who can no longer return home with their dirty laundry for a home cooked meal.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Eden is an escapist fantasy, a commentary on planet Earth's woes and a crime thriller, told from multiple points of view. Doug Winchcombe, brilliant but chronically introverted physicist, discovers a gateway to another planet. A perfect world he names Eden. But a perfect world needs more than one inhabitant.He and his nephew set out to build a viable population as they discover the wonders and secrets of Eden and the pitfalls of building a society from scratch. Poignant, funny, and populated by an international cast of diverse characters, Eden is a planet for everyone.'  (Publication summary)

'Mark flies into Sydney - as the singer of a punk band - full of expectations of success. But when his girlfriend takes off and the band goes nowhere, he hits the road in search of adventure.

'As a bouncer, a taxi driver, a set builder, an actor and a writer, he's constantly on the move. But as he powers along he is often overtaken by his past: his fragmented family, his numerous failed relationships and the ghosts of his brothers and friends. Again and again the road behind engulfs the road ahead.

'A journey of self discovery, an adventure and a picaresque romp, The Road Behind weaves through cities and outback, though the masculine and the feminine, though the dark side and the light side.

'Through sex and drugs and rock n roll, through life and death and an empty soul, Mark explores the physical space around him and the emotional space within. By journey's end, he's covered a lot of ground and come closer to himself, his family, his past, and his future.'

Source: The Road Behind website, http://www.theroadbehind.net/
Sighted: 01/11/2010