Everything Feels Like the End of the World

Else Fitzgerald's debut is a collection of speculative short fiction that moves steadily forward through time, from an Australia only slightly stranger than our own toward a distant, all but unrecognizable future. Across dozens of stories — some only a page or two long — the collection charts a world reshaped by climate breakdown and by technologies that fold ever deeper into ordinary life.

For all its futures, the book keeps its attention on the intimate and the human: grief, love, parenthood, memory, and the stubborn business of carrying on. Fitzgerald pairs an unsettling clarity about where the planet may be heading with a tenderness toward the people living through it, so that even the bleakest scenarios are threaded with feeling.

Published by Allen & Unwin, Everything Feels Like the End of the World is an ambitious, emotionally resonant work of Australian speculative fiction — clear-eyed about catastrophe, and quietly insistent on what remains worth holding onto.