Here Are My Demands - Softcover

Roff, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1923388134 ISBN 13: 9781923388130

Publisher: Wakefield Press, 2025

Synopsis

It's 2058 and Maggie Garewal knows that her moment has arrived. Working on policy with a newly installed government, she is desperate to use what leverage she has to secure real change: a redistributive program to help millions, stricken jobless by automation, into a purposeful life.

But progress never comes easily, especially in an augmented reality that blends truth, illusion and misdirection. Navigating manipulative politicians, public shaming, religious fundamentalists and foreign powers, Maggie is confronted with impossible decisions about the kind of future she wants for herself and her society.

Daringly speculative and yet all too recognisable, Here Are My Demands is a story about fighting on in the face of resistance, and the unprecedented hazards of a world our children have already started to inhabit.

About this title

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 In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, for an unpublished crime novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wakefield Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1923388134
• ISBN 13: 9781923388130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320