Brendan Ball 
Savages 

This triptych of stylistically diverse stories – on the unifying theme of the occult, mysticism and primitive religion – features three equally diverse protagonists: a revered tribal chief whose life depends on concealing signs of age, a debonair daemon suffering professional ennui in a staff training role without prospects, and a visionary moon colonist on the run from unrequited love who is blackmailed into sham psychotherapy and drawn into a bloody labour dispute.