Caliban, a street person and petty thief is given the chance to create a new life for himself. Drawn into a complex game by the Artificial Intelligences, Caliban suddenly discovers that he is not only fighting for his identity, but for his life...
A finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel, The Mask of Caliban was Australian speculative fiction master MICHAEL PRYOR’s breakthrough novel.
Michael Pryor has written more than twenty-five speculative fiction novels and over forty short stories, from literary fiction to science fiction to comedy. He has been shortlisted six times for the Aurealis Awards, has been nominated for a Ditmar award, and six of his works have been CBCA Notable Books.