Summer Book Reviews
Dec 27, 2018
4 minutes
by Mark Laurie of South Seas Books, Port Elliot
2028
by Ken Saunders
Published by Allen & Unwin
ISBN 9781760631062
$29.99
A witty and thought-provoking work of fiction by a new writer, projecting Australia ten years into the future. Parking meters have become gaming machines, robotic drones swarm, and Australia Post has long jettisoned letter delivery along with any final, remnant vestiges of social conscience. Automation has claimed functions as diverse as drivers, general practitioners, focus groups and radio shock jocks while the Chinese Communist Party has incorporated, realising that real power lies with the multinational corporations. Set around a snap election, the plot circulates through the
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