Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the Australian Children's Book Award. This science fiction story is set in the distant future when everyone. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travels in Africa. This extract comes from the opening chapter of the book Earthsong by Victor Kelleher. After receiving a grant from the Australia Council Literature Board, Kelleher spent six months of 1996 at the Kessing Writers' Studio in Paris. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Alison, and was associate professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. in English Literature from The University of South Africa. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a Ph.D.

He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. /rebates/2fbook-search2ftitle2fearthsong2fauthor2fkelleher-victor2f&. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. The question remains will it act together in concert to preserve humanity or to destroy? Questions that are still relevant today for teen readers.Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian writer. His vision of the future world is no longer safe or benevolent but rather a highly organised human-animal swarm that thinks as One, not unlike the hive mind of today's internet. Way ahead of his time was Kelleher, this 1995 published book was written before movies like Avatar or The Matrix and before cloning and extra-uteral births were considered a possibility. He writes a good human interest story with enough dramatic tension and thrills to ensure pages are turned quickly and enough philosophy to challenge cherished beliefs about nature and planetary intelligence. Bones Brother Night Del-Del Dog Boy Earthsong Fire Dancer Forbidden Paths of Thual.

As a middle aged woman teen sci fi holds no real attraction for me yet the serendipity of finding this book on a shelf in an old NSW nurses hostel was a fortunate stroke of luck. Lois Kelleher, Victor Kelleher, Victor Kelleher, Victor Kelleher. Parkland by Victor Kelleher Earthsong by Victor Kelleher Fire Dancer by Victor Kelleher Story Publication. Acclaimed Australian author Victor Kelleher explores themes of apocalypse, human responsibility, survival and freedom in a sinister future scenario where two teens are sent back to repopulate the earth thousands of years from now. 3 Works Popularity 50,628 (81 Members) 122 Books 0 Reviews ½ 3.8.

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