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Title: Onlyof historical interest
Review: I like Shute, and I am a frequent visitor to Queensland, but this novel and its characters seemed dated and unsatisfying. It was a 1952 "thought experiment" about a future for Queen Elizabeth and Australia that would bring us up to the present. There is a political agenda; this is less a "yarn" than what Shute is known for.
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