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A Protocol for Monsters

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The much anticipated companion volume to Emergence, the story of Dave Hooper's superhero embiggening. When an oil rig drills too deep under the Gulf of Mexico it breaks the capstone separating our world from the UnderRealms - home to monsters, daemons and dark magiks. The nightmares of our long ago come flooding back into the world where they are met by automatic weapons fire, heating seeking ... Read more

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The much anticipated companion volume to Emergence, the story of Dave Hooper's superhero embiggening. When an oil rig drills too deep under the Gulf of Mexico it breaks the capstone separating our world from the UnderRealms - home to monsters, daemons and dark magiks. The nightmares of our long ago come flooding back into the world where they are met by automatic weapons fire, heating seeking
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The Forever Dead

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Series Book 3 - The Cruel Stars Trilogy
A crew of intrepid heroes faces off once and for all against an enemy intent on destroying humanity—and the galaxy—in this exhilarating conclusion to The Cruel Stars Trilogy.When the Sturm, a group of “species purists,” returned from the far reaches of Dark Space to eliminate any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements, their victory seemed inevitable. Yet, as they waged war against humanity ... Read more

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A crew of intrepid heroes faces off once and for all against an enemy intent on destroying humanity—and the galaxy—in this exhilarating conclusion to The Cruel Stars Trilogy.When the Sturm, a group of “species purists,” returned from the far reaches of Dark Space to eliminate any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements, their victory seemed inevitable. Yet, as they waged war against humanity
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On Father

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Series series On Series
John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the black forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland.A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep grief.'Deeply moving. Beautifully written. I wept. For John's dad, and anew - for the loss of my ... Read more

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John Birmingham's father died. And his life fell apart. The next six months were spent grinding through the black forests of depression until he finally emerged out of the darkness onto sunlit upland.A unique yet universal story, On Father reaches out to everyone who has experienced and survived deep grief.'Deeply moving. Beautifully written. I wept. For John's dad, and anew - for the loss of my
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The Shattered Skies

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Series Book 2 - The Cruel Stars Trilogy
Humanity’s last surviving heroes must protect a shattered civilization from an all-conquering enemy in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars.“[The Shattered Skies] is a delightful military space adventure that runs at full tilt.”—BooklistThe Sturm, an empire of “species purists,” have returned from the farthest reaches of Dark Space to wage a war against what they call mutants and borgs: any ... Read more

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Humanity’s last surviving heroes must protect a shattered civilization from an all-conquering enemy in this thrilling sequel to The Cruel Stars.“[The Shattered Skies] is a delightful military space adventure that runs at full tilt.”—BooklistThe Sturm, an empire of “species purists,” have returned from the farthest reaches of Dark Space to wage a war against what they call mutants and borgs: any
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Stranger Thingies

From Felafel to Now

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John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer. The pieces contained within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald ... Read more

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John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer. The pieces contained within these pages run the gamut from the early felafel days to the shiny age we live in where Donald
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Quarterly Essay 2 Appeasing Jakarta

Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy

by John Birmingham ...

Series Book 2 - Quarterly Essay
In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still ... Read more

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In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still
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Designated Targets

A Novel of the Axis of Time

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Series Book 2 - Axis of Time
It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who’s going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway was forever transformed by the devastating appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century. Since that day, state-of-the-art warships have prowled the Pacific, armed with the latest instruments of mass destruction, as the warring powers of 1942 scramble to ... Read more

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It’s World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay. The only question: Who’s going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway was forever transformed by the devastating appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century. Since that day, state-of-the-art warships have prowled the Pacific, armed with the latest instruments of mass destruction, as the warring powers of 1942 scramble to
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Leviathan

The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney

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An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before.'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history. ... Read more

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An electrifying, epic history of the city of Sydney as you have never seen her before.'To peer deeply into this ghost city, the one lying beneath the surface, is to understand that Sydney has a soul and that it is a very dark place indeed.'Beneath the shining harbour, amid the towers of global greed and deep inside the bad-drugs madness of the suburban wastelands, lies Sydney's shadow history.
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Final Impact

A Novel of the Axis of Time

by John Birmingham ...

Series Book 3 - Axis of Time
“The action is nonstop, the characters very real—and very different from each other—and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think.”—S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of TimeIn the year 2021, a multinational fleet—experimenting with untested weapons technology—pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble ... Read more

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“The action is nonstop, the characters very real—and very different from each other—and, to coin a phrase, it makes you think.”—S. M. Stirling, author of Island in the Sea of TimeIn the year 2021, a multinational fleet—experimenting with untested weapons technology—pitched through time, crash-landing in 1942. The world is thrown into chaos as Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Tojo, and Stalin scramble
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The Brave Ones

East Timor, 1999

by John Birmingham ...

Series Book 5 - Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready.'The Brave Ones ... Read more

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'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready.'The Brave Ones
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Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War

Australia as a Military Power

by John Birmingham ...

Series Book 20 - Quarterly Essay
In A Time for War, John Birmingham ponders the Australian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more assertive and our armed forces are being radically restructured and hardened. Australia now has the capacity, and even ... Read more

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In A Time for War, John Birmingham ponders the Australian way of war. After East Timor and Bali, a combination of primal fear and primal ambition has transformed attitudes to our region, to security and to war as an instrument of politics. Australian defence policy has become more assertive and our armed forces are being radically restructured and hardened. Australia now has the capacity, and even
... Read more
Zero Day Code

by John Birmingham ...

A modern city can feed itself for nine days. No more. And when the panic starts…Chinese military hackers target the transport and food distribution systems of the West and unwittingly bring on the end of the world. Cities starve. Continents go dark. And a desperate America launches a devastating counterstrike. In this apocalyptic thriller by best-selling author John Birmingham, the arrogance of ... Read more

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A modern city can feed itself for nine days. No more. And when the panic starts…Chinese military hackers target the transport and food distribution systems of the West and unwittingly bring on the end of the world. Cities starve. Continents go dark. And a desperate America launches a devastating counterstrike. In this apocalyptic thriller by best-selling author John Birmingham, the arrogance of
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