The Weird Colonial Boy

MELBOURNE 1978:

Nigel Donohoe, hapless punk fish fancier buys some radioactive sword tails and gets transported to another Australia, where "rum, sodomy, and the lash" never ended.

It's still 1978!

He's history. But not as we know it.

He's a wanted man. But they haven't reckoned on a punk named Nigel.

He's the Weird Colonial Boy. But what the hell is that?

Alternate history as you've never read it.

There are enough things wrong with this novel [And Disregards the Rest] to sink the collected writings of Tolstoy and Dickens. And yet it works. - Miles Franklin Award winner George Turner, SF Commentary