young adult
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science fiction novel by
Damien Broderick
Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. His science fiction novel ''The Dreaming Dragons'' (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine ...
and
Rory Barnes
Rory Barnes (born 1946) is an Australian writer of popular fiction. Although born in London, he has lived most of his life in Australia.
Bibliography
*''Valencies'' (1983 with Damien Broderick)
*''The Bomb-Monger's Daughter'' (1984)
*''Water F ...
''Zones'' was first published in Australia in 1997 by Moonstone, a division of HarperCollins Australia, in
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format. In 2004 it was released as a braille book by
Vision Australia
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Background
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Information and Library Service.
In 2012, it appeared in print in the US for the first time, from Borgo/Wildside.
Synopsis
The protagonist is a teenager called Jenny who lives in Melbourne with her father and enjoys physics. She has a typical life until receiving a phone call from a boy from the year 1965.
Awards
''Zones'' was a short-list nominee for the 1997
Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel
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Catherine Jinks
Catherine Jinks (born 1963) is an Australian writer of fiction books for all age groups. She has won many awards including the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award four times, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the A ...
Greylands
''Greylands'' is a 1997 young adult novel by Isobelle Carmody. It follows the story of Jack who in order to come to terms with his mother's death writes a story in which he enters another world where he confronts his fears and finds answers to ...
'' by
Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Jane Carmody (born 16 June 1958) is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature. She is recipient of the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction.
Biography
Isobelle Carmody wa ...
in the young-adult category and to Broderick's ''
The White Abacus
''The White Abacus'' is a 1997 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. It follows the story of Telmah Lord Cima who travels to Earth from a far-off world and becomes friends with a computer-augmented being called Ratio.
Background
''The White ...