Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait

Synopsis

It's 2027, suburban Malaga, Western Australia. Ex-cop Aloysius 'Spider' Webb is working as a time-machine repairman - and people are crazy about time travel. Spider is getting on okay (if you put to one side his failed marriage and dead-end career) until he discovers the mutilated body of a woman in a second-hand time machine. What starts out as just another repair job on a faulty time machine becomes a battle for what lies at the very End of Time. A very engaging, richly imagined, off-kilter time-travel mystery novel, with some wonderful flashes of invention and a consistently immersing and credibly skewed near-future Australian setting … an abundance of misdirection and plot twists, the obligatory intrusion of temporal paradox, and some brilliantly black humour. - Judges' report, Aurealis Award