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The Courier's New Bicycle

Kim Westwood (2011)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.63

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentMild
LanguageModerate

Protagonist archetypes

Outlaw / FugitiveSmuggler

Synopsis

Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews. It's a stressful life, post-pandemic. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility, and the government has banned all remedies except prayer. Vigilantes prowl for transgressors while ,the pious gather like moths under the streetlight a at dusk. Then someone starts trading tainted hormones on the boss's patch . Salisbury must find whoever is trying to destroy the business before everything goes belly-up...

Tags

Dystopian FictionNear-Future SFNoirCyberpunkAustralian Setting