The Teeth of a Slow Machine - Softcover

Roff, Andrew

 
9781743058916: The Teeth of a Slow Machine

Synopsis

This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own.


A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband's cold developing complications and killing him, in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of events that works like a puzzle. A man spends his inheritance on technology that will allow him to fly. And an archeologist working for mining companies against the interests of Indigenous communities develops a mysterious psychological condition that causes her to black out and commit extreme acts of generosity.

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About the Author

The Teeth of a Slow Machine, released in 2022 by Wakefield Press, was Andrew Roff's debut short story collection. He was a winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition, the 2020 Peter Carey Short Story Award, and the 2018 Margaret River Press Short Story Competition. He completed a two week residential fellowship at Varuna House in 2017. Andrew's short fiction and non-fiction has appeared widely, including in the Guardian, Meanjin, Island, Overland, Southerly, Westerly, Griffith Review and Going Down Swinging. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for an unpublished crime novel.

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