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The Cicada
The Cicada
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Following the devastating effects of climate change, famine, disease, and nearly two hundred years of war, by the year 2450, the world has finally enjoyed two centuries of peace. The population of the planet has stabilised at three billion. One central government, the World Federation of Nations, administers the judicial needs of all nations through its General Assembly and funds scientific research dedicated to restoring the planet's fragile ecosystems.

At a principal research facility, located in Melbourne, Australia, a scientist is assaulted and vital data stolen. Almost simultaneously, four other facilities around the world are similarly compromised. After a series of shocking murders, Federation investigators realise they are dealing with a dark conspiracy that stretches across the globe. They enlist the support of the scientists and their sometimes capricious cats – mysterious creatures bred in special centres.

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Release dateOct 30, 2009
ISBN9781452372976
The Cicada
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Inge Meldgaard

At 62 years of age, and having moved house many times, I now live on the outskirts of Melbourne in an unusual old house surrounded by trees and a garden full of native birds. I was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and migrated to Australia in 1957 with my family. My father obtained work as an engineer in the small country town of Yallourn, where we lived until I attended Monash University in Melbourne in 1971. Having completed a degree in Botany and Genetics, I worked in social welfare, politics and education until returning to study urban sociology at postgraduate level in 1984 at Swinburne University. I once again studied at postgraduate level in 1989, but this time in information technology. Since then, and until I retired in 2006, I worked in various IT fields, the last position being as a departmental IT Manager at Monash University. I currently spend my time renovating and looking after my house and garden, enjoying graphic art and photography, writing, maintaining an active interest in conservation and social justice, feeding the abundant birdlife, and caring for one old cat who adopted me a few years ago.

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