Hawke, Sam
Entry updated 27 October 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Australian author whose Poison Wars sequence, beginning with City of Lies (2018) hovers Equipoisally between Fantasy and moderately Far Future topoi with an infusion of worldbuilding in the style of the Planetary Romance. An expansive-seeming culture, with resemblances to sentimental versions of ancient Rome, turns out to conceal a Dystopian power structure. For this novel she won a Ditmar Award. [JC]
Sam Hawke
born Canberra, Australia
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Poison Wars
- City of Lies (New York: Tor, 2018) [Poison Wars: hb/Greg Ruth]
- Hollow Empire (New York: Bantam Press, 2019) [Poison Wars: hb/]
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