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Issue Details: First known date: 1944... 1944 Scorched Earth
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Notes

  • Epigraph: My business is not to do justice but to destroy and exterminate. Field marshall Goering, 1934.

    I wish every mother to give her son to The Party without fearing he may be ruined morally. Hitler, 1936.

    Retreating we must destroy everything ... every scrap of bread. Stalin, 1941.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Currawong , 1944 .
      Extent: 153p.
      Series: Currawong Novels Currawong (publisher), 1941-1951 series - publisher novel The Currawong Novels series included a variety of fiction such as mystery, romance and western titles. Using the slogan on their back page, "You Can't Go Wrong with a Currawong", the series consisted of short novelettes of between 48 and 80 pages in length.

Works about this Work

And Lesser Talents Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 38-40)

— Review of A Voyage to Venus : A Novel D. Healy , 1943 single work novel ; Of Things Entire : A Fantasy Valerie Chick , 1941 single work novella ; Scorched Earth Philip I. Saunders , 1944 single work novel ; Salted : a mining romance Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Air Knight : A Romance Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; Formula for Power Leon Batt , 1942 selected work short story ; One Man Alone : A Story of the War...and After Reginald Kirby , 1944 single work novel ; The Lost Dominions : a romance of New Holland Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Trap-Door Spider : A Detective Story Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Steel Link : a romance of North West Australia Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Man Who Didn't Die Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Land of the Living Dead Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Zacro the Deathless Reginald Kirby , 1946 single work novel ; The Sacred Stone Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Dreams and Realities E. J. Brady , Leslie Rubinstein , 1944 single work novel ; Days After Tomorrow : A Voice from 2000 A.D. Frank Robison Kerr , 1944 single work novella ; The Sky Pirates Arthur Russell , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Crocodile City Arthur Russell , 1945 single work novella
And Lesser Talents Graham Stone , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Notes on Australian Science Fiction 2001; (p. 38-40)

— Review of A Voyage to Venus : A Novel D. Healy , 1943 single work novel ; Of Things Entire : A Fantasy Valerie Chick , 1941 single work novella ; Scorched Earth Philip I. Saunders , 1944 single work novel ; Salted : a mining romance Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Air Knight : A Romance Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; Formula for Power Leon Batt , 1942 selected work short story ; One Man Alone : A Story of the War...and After Reginald Kirby , 1944 single work novel ; The Lost Dominions : a romance of New Holland Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Trap-Door Spider : A Detective Story Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Steel Link : a romance of North West Australia Edgar G. Semmens , 1933 single work short story ; The Man Who Didn't Die Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Land of the Living Dead Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Zacro the Deathless Reginald Kirby , 1946 single work novel ; The Sacred Stone Reginald Kirby , 1945 single work novel ; Dreams and Realities E. J. Brady , Leslie Rubinstein , 1944 single work novel ; Days After Tomorrow : A Voice from 2000 A.D. Frank Robison Kerr , 1944 single work novella ; The Sky Pirates Arthur Russell , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Crocodile City Arthur Russell , 1945 single work novella
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