Craig Cormick
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Craig Cormick's award-winning collection of short stories pokes a sharp satirical stick into the eye of the age of terror, through stories that refuse to conform to the political rhetoric and media sensationalism of our times. His humor and the aim of his pen are deadly!
2) Uncle Adolf
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The year is 1982 and Adolf Hitler has been living anonymously on the south coast of New South Wales for almost thirty years, waging small wars with his neighbors and the local council. Until one day, during the height of the Falklands War, his old comrade Martin Bormann comes to visit, bearing a secret that will affect both their destinies.
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This story begins with a murder. A German internee is found dead inside a civilian internment camp during World War One, and one young internee, Arno Friedrich, determines to find the killer. But the more he probes into the lives of his fellow internees the more he discovers that little within the old stone prison is as he had imagined. He finds that the Germanic facades and fantasies the men construct hide secrets within secrets. And a killer.
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It's a fact not yet universally acknowledged, that everybody should at some point in their lives attempt to follow in the footsteps of the explorers Hume and Hovell down the Hume Highway, preferably in the company of Captain Cook, Henry Lawson, Caroline Chisholm and Ned Kelly. Backseat Drivers is a hilarious and biting satire on the intersection and byways of the past, the present and the future.
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We were becoming the wild things we most feared, but could not see it at the time.
On a night of raging winds and rain, Captain Cook's Endeavour lies splintered on a coral reef off the coast of far north Australia. A small disparate band of survivors, fracturing already, huddle on the shore of this strange land th,eir pitiful salvage scant protection from the dangers of the unknown creatures and natives that live here.
Watching these mysterious...
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Dimension6 takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our fourth annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas speculative fiction writers working in the field today.
• 'The Other City' Rjurik Davidson - It was the time of life when everything falls apart. He had to get out of the city. But, where would he end up?
• 'The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook' Craig Cormick - Cook was a Company man on a...