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'In Canberra, the planners have gone berserk. Infill development has taken over parks, backyards, median strips. Real money has been replaced by plastic, controlled by the Funds Transfer Authority, whose all-pervasive computer system even monitors childrens' spending of their pocket money. Now the planners are eyeing off the toilter blocks and gas barbeques at the picnic grounds for new outfill development. But they meet some unexpectedly effective opposition from the people already there...'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Manipulators: Groping, Grasping, Infilling and Fragmenting
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 12 no. 4 1994; (p. 58-59)
— Review of The Toucher 1993 single work novel ; The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson 1992 collected work poetry ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland 1993 multi chapter work criticism ; The River 1974 single work autobiography -
Fragile, Present and Future Fictions
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 135 1994; (p. 79-80)
— Review of North and West of Melrose Street : An Australian Story 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Letter to Constantine 1993 selected work short story -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 17 1993; (p. 130-131)
— Review of A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel -
Untitled
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , August no. 122 1993; (p. 28-29)
— Review of A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel -
A Canberra Quartet
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , August no. 122 1993; (p. 20)
— Review of Full House : A Novel 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel
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Fragile, Present and Future Fictions
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 135 1994; (p. 79-80)
— Review of North and West of Melrose Street : An Australian Story 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Letter to Constantine 1993 selected work short story -
Australian Science Fiction Undergoing Revival
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 August 1993; (p. C8)
— Review of And Disregards the Rest 1992 single work novel ; The Weird Colonial Boy 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Zenith 1993 single work novel -
Manipulators: Groping, Grasping, Infilling and Fragmenting
1994
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , January vol. 12 no. 4 1994; (p. 58-59)
— Review of The Toucher 1993 single work novel ; The Collected Verse of Banjo Paterson 1992 collected work poetry ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel ; Mona's Gift 1993 single work novel ; Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions 1993 single work criticism ; Atomic Fiction: The Novels of David Ireland 1993 multi chapter work criticism ; The River 1974 single work autobiography -
The Best of 2XX's Soundprint: Radio Real Time - March to August 1993
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Blast , Spring no. 23 1993; (p. 25-26)
— Review of The Green Mill Murder 1993 single work novel ; Fury 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel -
A Canberra Quartet
1993
single work
review
— Appears in: Muse , August no. 122 1993; (p. 20)
— Review of Full House : A Novel 1993 single work novel ; A Plastic Paradise 1993 single work novel
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- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,
- 2000-2099
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