Zones (novel)

Zones is a 1997 young adult science fiction novel by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes.[1] It follows the story of Jenny who receives a phone call from another year.

Zones
Zones first edition cover
AuthorDamien Broderick and Rory Barnes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreYoung adult, science fiction
Published1997 (Moonstone)
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages224 (first edition)
ISBN0-7322-5760-3

Publishing history

Zones was first published in Australia in 1997 by Moonstone, a division of HarperCollins Australia, in trade paperback format.[2] In 2004 it was released as a braille book by Vision Australia Information and Library Service.[3] 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 and best science fiction novel but lost to Catherine Jinks' Eye to Eye and Greylands by Isobelle Carmody in the young-adult category and to Broderick's The White Abacus in the science fiction category.[4]

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References
  1. National Library of Australia – Zones by Damien Broderick and Rory Barnes
  2. "Bibliography: Zones". ISFDB. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  3. Zones (Braille book, 2004). WorldCat. OCLC 225541907.
  4. "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 1998 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Retrieved 25 April 2010.


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