Ashes to Ashes single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Ashes to Ashes
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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.

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    y separately published work icon Eighty Nine Jodi Cleghorn (editor), Brisbane : eMergent Publishing , 2011 8543684 2011 anthology short story

    '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.

         Brisbane : eMergent Publishing , 2011     pg. 1-6
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