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This gripping parable could only exist in a post-pandemic world
2025-04-23 06:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
CultureBooksReviewBy Jordan ProsserApril 1, 2025 11.00pm, registeror subscribeto save articles for later.Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.FICTIONOrpheus NineChris FlynnHachette, $32.99In the acknowledgements section of his new novel, Orpheus Nine, Irish-Australian author Chris Flynn describes how the books central premise came to him fully formed in a dream. Once youve read the story, this makes perfect sense. His book has the uneasy thrall of a lockdown-era nightmare, but one analysed and refined from a healthy distance by a waking (yet no less feverish) mind.Orpheus Nine could only exist in a post-pandemic world, and COVID itself looms large throughout via potentially triggering references to supply chain issues, essential services and loo-roll related fatalities. One character laments to another: Feels like we didnt learn any lessons from Covid. And Gods help us, Chris Flynn is saying, should we be faced with another...
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