...You can't say June wasn't ambitious with her first novel. She works hard to make the American setting convincing, peppering it with cultural references picked up from books and television, and while there are inevitably a few slips (A Big Mac with Worcestshire sauce?) she does manage to convey a picture of Miami during a long hot summer surprisingly well... 

21 cm x 15 cm, 48 pages, with some colour pages.

One day in 2008 or therabouts, I stumbled upon the website, or 'alleged website' as it was called, of one F. Gwynpaine MacIntyre, the pseydonym of a writer who specialised in science fiction and fantasy. An autobiographical note revealed that he had been born in England and now lived in New York, but stated that, because of his unhappy childhood, he would never reveal his real name...

21 cm, 15 cm, 46 pages.

PO Box K546 Haymarket NSW 1240 cathob@zip.com.au

...'The UFO Man', as he was generally known, was one of Sydney's most arresting sights for many years. He was a neat, bearded, impassive figure who usually wore a hat and overcoat, and he could be seen walking around the city, or standing stock still, bearing a long, colourful hand-lettered sign reading 'UFO Chariots Isaiah 66:15 Christ Return', or some variation of that. One night, back in the eighties...

30 cm x 21 cm, 40 pages.

cathob@zip.com.au, www.bizarrism.com

PO Box K546 Haymarket NSW 1240

Classified.

21cm x 15cm, 24 pages, colour and B&W

People shaking hands, and locusts.

Some part of the locust may be more suited to grasping in greeting than others. Ponder this next time you ritually greet a work colleague.

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