DAN SALMON
Author / Documentary Maker
NEANDS
Out now
At the end of Neands, in a world that has turned against them, Charlie, Pru, and Ivy have found refuge but they are desperate for answers. As they set out to find out what happened to Charlie’s mother and their foster parents, Alan and Ngaire, Em and her brother Miro are risking their lives to escape the horrors of a Neand-run youth home in the South Island. When their paths cross, they face a fight for their future. If they have any future at all.
NEANDS
October, 2020
What if evolution went wrong and the human race was threatened at the very core of its DNA? Charlie (14) lives at a time when a new virus is infecting Homo sapiens. They are becoming more hostile and aggressive, even his friends, teachers, schoolmates and authority figures are succumbing to their recessive Neanderthal gene.
DAN SALMON
"The sort of books that excite me are as rich with ideas as they are characters and story. Neands is story about survival and loss, about Charlie, Pru, and Ivy fighting to get by in a world that doesn't want them anymore, but it's also about knowledge and ignorance, and our values, the very things that make us human."
Dan's writing includes Helen Clark: Inside Stories, co-authored with Claudia Pond-Eyley, and Salmon on Tuna for The Journal of Urgent Writing Volume 1. He has been a contributing author of reports/investigations into human rights at sea and illegal fishing.
ABOUT DAN SALMON
Dan Salmon works as a writer, screen director, and producer of award-winning documentaries and television.
He likes loud music, quiet places, crowds, solitude, trees, and the ocean, and when he can’t be found, is usually sailing or riding his bike. In 2019, he went to Ethiopia to see where homo sapiens first evolved. It was very cool, and made him think more deeply about who we are. Some of that thinking made its way into Neands, his first novel.
'All the great truths are in fiction, everything else is just facts.'
Maybe once said by a great novelist
CONTACT
Get in touch to discover more about Neands.
OneTree House
P.O.Box 11-74
Ellerslie, Auckland 1542
