Australian author Tim Winton’s first foray into speculative fiction — in this case climate fiction, or cli-fi — is a gripping ...

And that's Australia. My affection for the outback is, frankly, a mystery to me. Nearly everything about it is alien or alarming to my nature. It exceeds by a considerable margin my personal ...

The Outback fills some 70 percent of the massive island continent of Australia, roughly the size of the U.S. It’s scantly populated, except for the more than 150 species of venomous snakes.