Factory 19
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| Author | Dennis Glover |
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| Publisher | Black Inc. |
Publication date | 2020 |
| ISBN | 9781760641764 |
Factory 19 is a 2020 novel by Australian author Dennis Glover.[1]
The narrator of the story is Paul Ritchey, who developed an allergy to digital technology, and relocates to a fictionalised Hobart.[1] The city had previously been popular tourist attraction due to its "Gallery of Future Art" set up by billionaire Dundas Faussett.[2] The Faussett character has been described as a "David Walsh-like figure.[3] Faussett closes the gallery and Hobart becomes a ghost town. Two years later, Faussett reappears to create "Factory 19", a factory complex with worker residences that are modelled on life in March 1948.[1] In the novel's fictional timeline, the date March 1948 was settled on as it was one month before the RAND corporation introduced its first mainframe computer.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Callil, Jack (27 November 2020). "Factory 19 by Dennis Glover review – an Orwellian dystopia in Tasmania's near future". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
- ^ Jack Cameron Stanton (29 January 2021). "Welcome to the new Tasmania - a haven for Luddites". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ a b Frank Bongiorno. "Return of the 1940s - Dennis Glover's satirical new novel". Australian Book Review (January–February 2021). ISSN 1324-1745. Retrieved 19 April 2025.