Storm Bradley, Australian : A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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y Storm Bradley, Australian : A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow single work novel

Author:agent Frederick Davison

Issue Details: First known date: 1932... 1932 Storm Bradley, Australian : A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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'Most of [Storm Bradley] is your straightforward Life of Fred Sludge kind of novel, plodding through vicissitudes of two generations with a lot of moralising asides to the reader. The last third brings us to the Depression, and explains what to do about it and incidentally cure all society's ills.

'The Tomorrow of the title is represented by the last few pages [pp.276-282], in which after a change of government a new day dawns and, etc. The worst thing about the exposition of what was wrong with the financial system in the 1920s and 1930s is that very little has changed since.'

Source: Stone, Notes on Australian Science Fiction,' p. 120.

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Introductory quotation: Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, saying, "When may we sell corn... making the ephah (a measure of corn) small, and the shekel great, that we buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes." The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works." - Amos viii, 4,5,6,7.
Dedication: To the Girl in the Red Dress.

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In Times to Come Again Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 115-121)
— Review of Hortense : A Study of the Future. A Romance 'Lancelot Lance' , 1906 single work novel ; The Day After To-Morrow. Cora Minnett , 1911 single work novel ; The Electric Gun : A Tale of Love and Socialism Harold Crawford Johnston , 1911 single work novel ; The Angel of the Earthquake Frank Morton , 1909 selected work novella ; Paying the Price F. W. Montgomerie , 1907 single work novel ; Storm Bradley, Australian : A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Frederick Davison , 1932 single work novel ; Sands o' the Desert Harlingham Quinn , 1913 single work novel ; Futurity: A Play of Tomorrow in Two Acts Adrian Consett Stephen , 1914 single work drama ; Fair Inez : A Romance of Australia Douglas Sladen , 1918 single work novel ; Nicholas Simon : A Romance of Revolution D. P. Macdonald , 1915 single work novel ; The Great Untouched Future Grace M. Aguilar , 1938 single work novel ; The Woman on the Beast : Viewed from Three Angles Helen Simpson , 1933 single work novel ; Boomerang Helen Simpson , 1932 single work novel

A Satchel of Books 1932 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 November vol. 53 no. 2755 1932; (p. 5)
— Review of Storm Bradley, Australian : A Story of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Frederick Davison , 1932 single work novel