Australia, many years in the future. A place of darkness, overpopulation and environmental degradation. A rigidly stratified society controlled by Artificial Intelligences. Caliban, a street person and petty thief is given the chance to create a new life for himself. Drawn into a complex game by the Artificial Intelligences, Caliban suddenly discovers that he is not only fighting for his identity, but for his life... A finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel, The Mask of Caliban was Australian speculative fiction master MICHAEL PRYOR's breakthrough novel.

 

This book was recognised in the Best Novel - YA category by the Aurealis Award.

This book has been graded for interest at 12+ years.

There are 320 pages in this book. It is a novel. This book was published 2012 by Hachette Australia .

Michael Pryor is one of Australia's premier science fiction and fantasy authors. He is the author of more than 35 books, including Blaze of Glory and Machine Wars . Michael has been shortlisted seven times for the Aurealis Awards, and seven of his books have been CBCA Notable Books.