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Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Moon Baby
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'The plot is loosely structured around the machinations to organise an illegal beauty contest by the "Members of Male Defiance". The prime candidate is the narrator's sister/lover Sarah. All the women in the book seem fixated on male castration [...]'. Source: 'Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction'.

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Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction Sneja Gunew , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 41 no. 2 1982; (p. 277-286)

— Review of Beloved Son George Turner , 1978 single work novel ; Displaced Person Lee Harding , 1979 single work novel ; Rooms of Paradise 1978 anthology short story ; The Dreaming Dragons : A Time Opera Damien Broderick , 1980 single work novel ; The Moon Baby John Bailey , 1978 single work novel ; The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction 1976 anthology short story criticism poetry ; The View from the Edge : A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories 1977 anthology short story ; A Passage in Earth Damien Broderick , 1978 single work short story
Australian SF Novels : A Grey, Grey Future Van Ikin , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 2 no. 1 (Issue 4) 1979; (p. 85-95)

— Review of The Moon Baby John Bailey , 1978 single work novel ; The Luck of Brin's Five Cherry Wilder , 1977 single work novel ; Moon in the Ground Keith Antill , 1979 single work novel ; Displaced Person Lee Harding , 1979 single work novel
Forms of Power in Recent Australian Science Fiction Sneja Gunew , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 41 no. 2 1982; (p. 277-286)

— Review of Beloved Son George Turner , 1978 single work novel ; Displaced Person Lee Harding , 1979 single work novel ; Rooms of Paradise 1978 anthology short story ; The Dreaming Dragons : A Time Opera Damien Broderick , 1980 single work novel ; The Moon Baby John Bailey , 1978 single work novel ; The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction 1976 anthology short story criticism poetry ; The View from the Edge : A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories 1977 anthology short story ; A Passage in Earth Damien Broderick , 1978 single work short story
Australian SF Novels : A Grey, Grey Future Van Ikin , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 2 no. 1 (Issue 4) 1979; (p. 85-95)

— Review of The Moon Baby John Bailey , 1978 single work novel ; The Luck of Brin's Five Cherry Wilder , 1977 single work novel ; Moon in the Ground Keith Antill , 1979 single work novel ; Displaced Person Lee Harding , 1979 single work novel
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