Austalia (Aboriginal) - The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf - Ambelin Kwaymullina

How I found the book:
I was just doing a bit of maintenance of the blog page, doing boring stuff like adding alt text to the images, and looking at which posts didn't have cover art images. When I was checking the Australia page, which at the time was Clade by James Bradley, which I always had my doubts about it being 'science fiction' or not. It looked great but it was always low down the 'to-read' pile. So i thought I'd do a little research, and very quickly swapped James Bradley for Greg Egan. But during this research I found this book, and very quickly ordered a copy.

17th Feb 2026:

I had order from MusicMagpie but they sent an email saying that the second quality check failed, and the books condition was up to their standards and sent me a refund instead of the book.

 Sweden - Swedish Machines - Simon Stålenhag

The Physical Book: 

Australia - Permutation City  - Greg Egan

This post for Australia started at Claude was a gift from my mother in law (I had given some suggestions to what I wanted)

The blurb makes it look not that science fiction-esque. so this page will probably change to a Greg Egan book, and probably that book will be "permutation city".

8th Feb 2026:
Also it looks like i'm going to do two books from Australia now. I did a bit of googling and found an aboriginal Australian science fiction author. And from a super quick look on good reads, looks something along the lines on Binti, where the story is set in the future but draws on ancient culture and history, so i'll be dusting off the aboriginal flag of Australia out and grabbing a copy of: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13552764-the-interrogation-of-ashala-wolf. I know i keep making this project bigger and bigger, but i'm learning so much about other cultures that this is too good to miss! And I can probably use an audible credit up for the Greg Egan book!

The Physical Book:

Ordered on Feb 11th from Abe books £6.99 oh and bought The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf from MagpieBooks for £2.68. Nice bit of artwork, and a nicely put together book.

The Story:

I'm really glad I'm listening to the audiobook, as it's a bit of slog, there is some insanely technical passages describing mathmatics, philosophy, and quantum theories. So it can get a bit dry. I'm currently about a third of the way into the book and the story line is starting to kick in a lot more, after a large amount of world and character building (Pun and double meaning FULLY intended).