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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]