Science Fiction & Fantasy Catalogue Pulp Fiction Booksellers • Shop 4, Level 1 (first floor) • Blocksidge & Ferguson Building Arcade • 144 Adelaide Street • Brisbane • Queensland • 4000 • Australia Postal: GPO Box 297 • Brisbane • Queensland • 4001 • Australia • Tel: 07 3236-2750 • e-mail: [email protected] www.pulpfictionbooks.com.au Includes new books by: Body Work look at their lives and what they’ve made Jack Four of the world. Global warming ravages the Katherine Addison Rivers of London graphic novel 01 Asher, Neal (deluxe writers’ edition) planet, where shrunken coasts endure huge Created to die – determined to live… Jack Neal Asher Aaronovitch, Ben; Cartmel, tidal attacks while inland ideological wars Four – one of twenty human clones – has continue. Technology has advanced to the C J Carey Andrew & Sullivan, Lee been created to be sold. 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