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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 State of Play
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'You mean you want me to go to HarborCity?'
'Some people catch on slow.'
'When?'
'Now.'
'Today?'
'Today.'
So Joe had his instructions. Why he left Mullock Gully, why he regretted doing so, why 2015 was a year of reckoning for a city-state of wealth and power: all this was to unfold in the days and weeks ahead. In the meantime, Joe hurriedly threw a few clothes into his empty rig and headed towards Brisbane. A life-and-death struggle had begun. (Source: back cover blurb.)

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Alternative title: State of Play : Fun City Meets Its Match : A Fantasy of the Future
    • Sutherland, Sutherland - Engadine area, Sutherland area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Albatross Books , 1990 .
      Extent: 228p.
      ISBN: 0867600985

Works about this Work

Untitled Jill Ireland , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Autumn no. 46 1992; (p. 35)

— Review of State of Play Doug Buckley , 1990 single work novel
Damien Returns - a Good Omen Terry Dowling , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 June 1991; (p. rev 6)

— Review of The Dark Between the Stars : Speculative Fiction Damien Broderick , 1991 selected work short story ; Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Stories 1990 anthology short story ; State of Play Doug Buckley , 1990 single work novel
Damien Returns - a Good Omen Terry Dowling , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 June 1991; (p. rev 6)

— Review of The Dark Between the Stars : Speculative Fiction Damien Broderick , 1991 selected work short story ; Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Stories 1990 anthology short story ; State of Play Doug Buckley , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Jill Ireland , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , Autumn no. 46 1992; (p. 35)

— Review of State of Play Doug Buckley , 1990 single work novel
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