@booklet {1695, title = {On the Beach}, year = {1957}, note = {

Rpt. London: Pan, 1966. Australian ed. Melbourne, VIC: Heinemann, 1957. There was a 1959 film directed by Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) and a 2000 TV remake directed by Russell Mulachy (b. 1953).

}, month = {1957}, publisher = {William Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Most of the world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, and Australians are waiting for the radiation to reach them.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Male author}, author = {Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960)} } @booklet {1469, title = {In the Wet}, year = {1953}, month = {1953}, publisher = {William Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Anti-socialist eutopia. Future of the British Commonwealth. In a note the author says that he tried to imagine the Commonwealth in thirty years. Following an economic crash in the 1970s, in the 1980s Britain is poor, becoming depopulated, and socialist. Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are rich, growing, and capitalist. Socialism is described as appropriate to British conditions, but conservatives had left the country in large numbers and added to the growth of the Commonwealth countries.

}, keywords = {Australian author, English author, Male author}, author = {Nevil Shute [Norway] (1899-1960)} }