Here Are My Demands

'This is the real deal: smart, wildly imaginative speculative fiction that you'll read in one sitting and then think about for weeks.' - Jeff Sparrow 'If spec-econ isn't a genre already, it just got invented. I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure in democracy, technology and political possibiliy. Roff's clever, imaginative mix of satire and serious ideas dreams big - and unlike the current field, it doesn't disappoint.' - Jennifer Mills 'Ingenious, compelling and terrifically fun, Andrew Roff's vision of our political future is more than just believable - it seems almost destined.' - Ben Walter 'Andrew Roff's Here Are My Demands is a thoughtful and well-realised Australian science fiction with political thriller elements. Its characters inhabit a not-too-distant future with inspired and sometimes uncomfortably realistic settings and scenarios. We zone in on a young, flawed and empathetic political player, Maggie, and through her Roff explores ideas of ego, privilege, discontent, ambition, and necessary threads of hope and (post)humanity.' - Angela Meyer 'Has there ever been a more timely book? As the attack on the human worker escalates and we watch our political systems falter under the influence of unchecked wealth - I beg you to read Here Are My Demands. Who thought an exploration of universal basic income could be so thrilling? This book is an excellent and urgent example of the way speculative fiction makes it possible to see current events clearly and imagine a different future.' - Pip Adam