Demands

Release date: 15 August 2025 – order via the links below

In a near-future Australia, Maggie Garewal knows that her moment has arrived. Working on policy with a newly installed government, she is desperate to use what leverage she has to secure real change: a redistributive program to help millions, stricken jobless by automation, into a purposeful life.

But progress never comes easily, especially in an augmented reality that blends truth, illusion and misdirection. Navigating manipulative politicians, public shaming, religious fundamentalists and foreign powers, Maggie is confronted with impossible decisions about the kind of future she wants for herself and her society.

Daringly speculative and yet all too recognisable, Here Are My Demands is a story about fighting on in the face of resistance, and the unprecedented hazards of a world our children have already started to inhabit.

Praise for Here Are My Demands:

‘This is the real deal: smart, wildly imaginative speculative fiction that you’ll read in one sitting and then think about for weeks.’
— Jeff Sparrow

‘A thoughtful and well-realised Australian speculative fiction. We zone in on a young, flawed and empathetic political player, Maggie, and through her Roff explores ideas of ego, privilege, discontent, ambition and necessary threads of hope and (post)humanity.’
— Angela Meyer

‘Has there ever been a more timely book? As the attack on the human worker escalates and we watch our political systems falter under the influence of unchecked wealth — I beg you to read Here Are My Demands … an excellent and urgent example of the way speculative fiction makes it possible to see current events clearly and imagine a different future.’
— Pip Adam

‘Ingenious, compelling and terrifically fun, Andrew Roff’s vision of our political future is more than just believable — it seems almost destined.’
— Ben Walter

Order now via Wakefield Press or your favourite independent book store.