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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Courier's New Bicycle
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'Salisbury Forth is a courier of contraband in the alleyways of inner Melbourne, a city of fuel rationing, rolling power outages and curfews.

'It′s a stressful life, post-pandemic. A vaccine dispensed Australia-wide is causing mass infertility, and the government has banned all remedies except prayer.

'Vigilantes prowl for transgressors while the pious gather like moths under the streetlights at dusk. Then someone starts trading tainted hormones on the boss's patch. Salisbury must find whoever is trying to destroy the business before everything goes belly up ...' (From the publisher's website.)

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Brenda
  • Epigraph: You can change the story. You are the story. - Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Voyager , 2011 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 327p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 1 August 2011.
      ISBN: 9780732289881 (pbk.), 9780730497714 (ebk)

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The Year's Work in Fiction Annabel Smith , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 137-152)

— Review of When We Have Wings Claire Corbett , 2011 single work novel ; Shooting the Fox Marion Halligan , 2011 selected work short story ; Sarah Thornhill Kate Grenville , 2011 single work novel ; The Waterboys Peter Docker , 2011 single work novel ; Traitor Stephen Daisley , 2010 single work novel ; Inherited Amanda Curtin , 2011 selected work short story ; The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel ; That Deadman Dance Kim Scott , 2010 single work novel ; The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman , 2011 single work novel ; Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; Black Glass Meg Mundell , 2010 single work novel ; The Cook Wayne McCauley , 2011 single work novel ; Wild History 1996 single work poetry ; A Common Loss Kirsten Tranter , 2011 single work novel
End of the World Not So Far Off Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21)
Australian Science Fiction Colin Steele , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , November no. 84 2012; (p. 60)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel ; The Clockwork Rocket Greg Egan , 2011 single work novel ; Rotten Gods Greg Barron , 2012 single work novel
Dystopian Worlds Abound Colin Steele , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 September 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 August 2011; (p. 21)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Stefen Brazulaitis , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 26)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Owen Richardson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 August 2011; (p. 32)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Pick of the Week Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 August 2011; (p. 36)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Dystopian Worlds Abound Colin Steele , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 September 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel
Down a Dark Alley Stefen Brazulaitis (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , July vol. 91 no. 1 2011; (p. 33)
End of the World Not So Far Off Fiona Purdon , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21)
Crime Can Pay Marc McEvoy , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 August 2012; (p. 15)
Kim Westwood and the Implacabe Other Peter Hickman , 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , December 2011;
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