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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Vexil Excelsior
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'Does flag reflect country or does country reflect flag? To A, B, and C, travellers from the infinite River and seekers of the country of the Ideal Flag, the question is irrelevant, for both are the same. Life can certainly be trying when signs do not just denote the world but are the world; and Vexil Excelsior, based on David King's story 'Flags', published in the Canberra satirical magazine Blast, chronicles those trials unflaggingly, right up to the moment when colour itself threatens to spill out of the flag universe into our own.' (back cover blurb)

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      :       David King ,       1995 .
      Printed/distributed by Fast Books
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      Extent: 120p.
      Note/s:
      • Author's note: This novel exists in two different versions. In the first version, all chapters in Part 1 are in the same colour type as that indicated by the titles of the chapters. (Thus 'The Red Continent' is in red type, and so on.) In the second version, which is the version you are reading, only the last page of the novel is in colour. The meaning of the novel varies accordingly.
      ISBN: 0646233645
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Related Works

Flags David King , 1985 single work short story science fiction satire
— Appears in: Urban Fantasies 1985; (p. 71-74) Blast , Winter no. 16 1991; (p. 40)
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Works about this Work

Shorts Jann Gilbert , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 173 1995; (p. 66)
— Review of Vexil Excelsior David King , 1995 single work novel
Shorts Jann Gilbert , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 173 1995; (p. 66)
— Review of Vexil Excelsior David King , 1995 single work novel
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