AustLit

Epigraph:

The whole island, you know, was one enormous

hotel, complex beyond explaining, and on the

other side there were miles of floating hotels,

and huge floating stages to which the flying

machines came. The called it a Pleasure City.

Of course, there was none of that in your

time - rather, I should say, is none of that

now. Of course. Now! - yes.

H.G. Wells

A dream of Armageddon, 1901