subcal
7th October 2006, 02:59
http://www.jointheunderground.com.au/
Now that I have your attention, I just finished reading a... err a revolutionary tale of fiction flavour writting by Australian author. Interesting enough but have a look at the web page provided on the last page of the book!
An actual research page... wonder how many people will use them,
whats the throw back on self publishing a book as a properganda action? This book can be purchased in most main stream book stores, super markets and is really doing the rounds in more militant circles.
Anyone else read it? this is a review
Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints, citizenship tests, identity cards and detention without trial have all become the norm. Suspect minorities have been locked away into ghettos. And worse no one wants to play cricket with us anymore.
Enter Leo James burnt-out property developer and black-sheep twin brother of the all powerful Bernard James, Prime Minister of Australia. In an event all too typical of the times, Leo finds himself abducted by terrorists. But this won't be your average kidnapping. Instead, vast and secret forces are at work here, and Leo and his captors are about to embark on a journey into the underworld of a nation gone mad.
Like some bastard child of Dr Strangelove and George Orwell, Underground is both an adrenalin-pumped thriller and a gleefully barbed satire that takes a chainsaw to political neo-correctness and Australia's new ultra-nationalism. Blistering and blackly comic, this book goes straight to the heart of the country's future and it isn't pretty.
with citizen ship tests already on the cards in australia its getting less fictional
Now that I have your attention, I just finished reading a... err a revolutionary tale of fiction flavour writting by Australian author. Interesting enough but have a look at the web page provided on the last page of the book!
An actual research page... wonder how many people will use them,
whats the throw back on self publishing a book as a properganda action? This book can be purchased in most main stream book stores, super markets and is really doing the rounds in more militant circles.
Anyone else read it? this is a review
Think ahead five or so years from now, to an Australia transformed by the never-ending war on terror. Canberra has been wiped out in a nuclear attack. There is a permanent state of emergency. Security checkpoints, citizenship tests, identity cards and detention without trial have all become the norm. Suspect minorities have been locked away into ghettos. And worse no one wants to play cricket with us anymore.
Enter Leo James burnt-out property developer and black-sheep twin brother of the all powerful Bernard James, Prime Minister of Australia. In an event all too typical of the times, Leo finds himself abducted by terrorists. But this won't be your average kidnapping. Instead, vast and secret forces are at work here, and Leo and his captors are about to embark on a journey into the underworld of a nation gone mad.
Like some bastard child of Dr Strangelove and George Orwell, Underground is both an adrenalin-pumped thriller and a gleefully barbed satire that takes a chainsaw to political neo-correctness and Australia's new ultra-nationalism. Blistering and blackly comic, this book goes straight to the heart of the country's future and it isn't pretty.
with citizen ship tests already on the cards in australia its getting less fictional