Rjurik Davidson has written short stories, essays, reviews and screenplays. He writes reviews of speculative fiction for the Age newspaper and film reviews for several magazines. Rjurik’s screenplay The Uncertainty Principle (co-written with Ben Chessell) is currently in development. He has been short-listed for and won a number of awards. He can be found at rjurik.com. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Unwrapped Sky by Rjurik Davidson
Unwrapped Sky, the debut novel by Rjurik Davidson, has an evocative setting, an intriguing set-up, and an often lyrical and lovely prose style, but an off-putting distance between the reader and its characters/material works against these strengths, leaving more of a sense of “what could have been” than I would have preferred.
A clear denizen of the New Weird or Urban Weird, Unwrapped Sky introduces us to Caeli-Amur, an ancient city rising out of the dark ages brought about from the legendary God War and its ensuing Cataclysm,
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