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    Summer Book Reviews

    Dec 27, 2018 4 minutes
    by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot

    2028

    by Ken Saunders

    Published by Allen & Unwin

    ISBN 9781760631062

    $29.99

    A witty and thought-provoking work of fiction by a new writer, projecting Australia ten years into the future. Parking meters have become gaming machines, robotic drones swarm, and Australia Post has long jettisoned letter delivery along with any final, remnant vestiges of social conscience. Automation has claimed functions as diverse as drivers, general practitioners, focus groups and radio shock jocks while the Chinese Communist Party has incorporated, realising that real power lies with the multinational corporations. Set around a snap election, the plot circulates through the

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