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* Contents derived from the Norwood,Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area,Adelaide - North / North East,Adelaide,South Australia,:Omnibus Books,1994 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Advances in technology threaten to make human labour and expertise in a pattern-making business obsolete. The business owner despairs until he discovers that the robots can also produce something unexpected.
Earth has been converted into a gigantic factory where humans work as slaves for the alien Balnibarbie. However a small group of human rebels have plans for a different future.
Melbourne is now mostly underwater due to polar ice-melt, and the rich genetically engineer their children to match their ideas of perfection. One such child is the adolescent narrator, however when he falls in love he begins to question notions of perfection and control.
The crew fear for their lives when their sentient spaceship begins to malfunction. However Mahon's memory of his own childhood helps him to understand the ship's behaviour.
Joss is devastated when she is kicked out of the Academy for Neo-Historical Studies. She travels back in time in an attempt to change the past, but what she encounters there almost costs her life.
As a fifteen year old boy struggles to understand why he keeps being sent back in time to re-live the same day, an alien formulates his plan to take control of humanity.
Set in the future, when humans survive by scavenging metals from landfill. A man and boy discover how to make a citrus tree grow in this desolate wasteland, but their dreams of organic renewal are soon dashed.
