Playing Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere: Satires

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A riotous collection of ethical fever dreams from an internationally recognised master of the short form, Alex CothrensPlaying Nice Was Getting Me Nowhereis a book for anyone struggling to tell the difference between the news and satire.


A conspiracy theory about bees divides a nation.
A haunted pokie machine seeks revenge.
A smart home becomes a little too clever.

InPlaying Nice Was Getting Me Nowhere, Cothren explores the ethos of the end times, testing the limits of technology, humanity and modern media. His predictions are incisive, shocking and terribly plausible, tracing our contemporary obsessions to their logical and often dire conclusions.

Yet amid the horror are moments of hope and resistance, and possibly even a path to redemption or at least instructions on finding a good place to hide when it all comes crashing down. Cothrens multi-award-winning short stories will stop you doomscrolling and keep you guessing.

Author Bio

Alex Cothrenis a lecturer in creative writing at Flinders University. He has won the Carmel Bird, William van Dyke, Griffith Review Emerging Voices and Peter Carey awards for short fiction. He has had writing published inMeanjin,Island,Overland,Griffith ReviewandAustralian Book Review. He was born in the Pacific Northwest but now lives on beautiful Kaurna Yerta with his wife Maria and sonJulio.