Sloley, Emma
Entry updated 8 September 2025. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Australian journalist and author, in US from 2004, who is of sf interest for her first novel, Disaster's Children (2019), a very Near Future Young Adult tale set mostly in a remote rural ranch compound (see Keep) occupied by the very rich, who are planning to dodge the Climate Change catastrophe more and more dominating the outside world, which they call the Disaster. The young protagonist falls in love with a Mysterious Stranger, but there is no convincing sensation that this coming together will save the world. The Island in her second novel, The Island of Last Things (2025), is Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, once a notorious Prison, which has been transformed in this Dystopian version of a Near Future California ravaged by Climate Change, into a Zoo where various species may be saved. The story revolves around an argument that they should be freed. There is a clear sense that the Sixth Extinction will not be deferred. [JC]
Emma Sloley
born Australia
works
- Disaster's Children (New York: Little A, 2019) [hb/]
- The Island of Last Things (New York: Flatiron Books, 2025) [hb/]
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