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Pan Books Australia

The Silent Invasion: The Change Trilogy by James Bradley

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April 2017, no. 390
Benjamin Chandler reviews 'The Change Trilogy: The Silent Invasion' by James Bradley

The Silent Invasion, James Bradley’s first Young Adult novel and the first in a trilogy, begins in generic post-apocalyptic fashion. Humanity crowds into restricted safe zones, hiding from an intergalactic plague that infects living matter with the mysterious Change. Adolescent protagonist Callie’s younger sister Gracie is infected; to prevent her demise at the hands of Quarantine, ...

Kanga Creek: Havelock Ellis in Australia edited by Geoffrey Dutton

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May 1989, no. 110
Hazel Rowley reviews 'Kanga Creek: Havelock Ellis in Australia' edited by Geoffrey Dutton

Are you (as I am) conscious of suffering from what they call the postmodern condition? You know, the spiritual and moral void within commodity culture, the isolation of individualism, the lack of meaning and all that. Since reading this book, I have begun to think that we should all spend time in Sparkes Creek. Havelock Ellis, who became the great British psychologist of sex, went there over a hundred years ago, as a boy of nineteen:

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