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Bird Deity
by John Morrissey

Reviewed by
Harvey Weir, Feb 2026

Disconnected. Dissociated. Disembodied. A gripping new entry into Australian speculative fiction, John Morrissey's Bird Deity steers a bleak and meditative course through an unsettling narrative, without ever losing its grip on the reader. 

David, a surveyor about to finish his…

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