'1989: a cusp between decades.
'The year the Berlin Wall came down and Voyager went up. Ted Bundy and Emperor Hirohito died. The birth of the first Bush administration and computer virus.
'In San Francisco and Newcastle the ground shook, in Chernobyl it melted. Tiananmen Square rocked the world and Tank Man imprinted on the international consciousness. Communism and Thatcherism began their decline, Islamic fundamentalism its rise.
'It was the year Batman burst onto the big screen, we went back to the future (again), Indiana Jones made it a trifecta at the box office and Michael Damian told us to rock on.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Only works written by Australian authors or set in Australia are individually indexed on AustLit.
This anthology also includes the work of the following international authors: Dale Challener Roe, Maria Kelly, Rob Diaz, Kaolin Fire, Icy Sedgwick, Susan May James, Devin Watson, Laura Eno, Emma Newman, Jim Bronyaur, Alison Wells, Paul Anderson, Monica Marier, Jason Coggins, and Cath Barton.
The story of a priest, set in a world where the assassination of Salman Rushdie set of a wave of moral panic, censorship, and book burning.
In a small town, teenagers are fascinated and repelled by the rumours that the local bridge contains an angelgate, transforming the pure of heart into angels when they jump.
