Drought. Heatwave. Environmental ruin... Rion Saunders is forced to return to the 'Belt and his hometown of East Hills as a Police Force draftee. Released from custody, Sylvia Baron must play a double game infiltrating the shadowy Misanthropos. The organisation's founder, Sylvia's ex-husband David, is on death row, while Jeremy Peters, Yellowcake Springs' newest Director of Security, tries to keep a protest from spiralling out of control. Do the answers lie in Controlled Waking State, CIQ Sinocorp's newest stratagem to subdue a restless population? Guy Salvidge is a high school English teacher and writer living in rural Western Australia. His first novel, The Kingdom of Four Rivers, was published in 2009 and his second, Yellowcake Springs, won the IP Picks Award for Best Fiction in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Norma K. Hemming Award in 2012. In 2013, Guy was awarded an Emerging Writer-in-Residence position at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre, where he started working on a 'literary noir' novel, Dan: A Cautionary Tale. He has written extensively on the novels of Philip K. Dick and these essays are collected in SF Commentary 83. His short fiction recently appeared in Tincture Journal and Alien Sky. In 2013 he will be co-editing The Tobacco-Stained Sky: An Anthology of Post-Apocalyptic Noir from Another Sky Press.