Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with "telling it like it is", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham—in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.
Author John Birmingham deliberately included a character called Harriet Klausner in his novel Designated Targets.
Birmingham was first published in Semper Floreat, the student newspaper at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, writing a series of stories featuring a fictional character named Commander Harrison Biscuit.
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Birmingham received his higher education at Saint Edmund's College in Ipswich and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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In 2004 he published the alternative history Weapons of Choice, the first in the Axis of Time trilogy, a series of Tom Clancy-like techno-thrillers.
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The ABC reported in 2006 that there were two new Birmoverse books in the works, one set shortly after the end of the war, and another in the alternative 1980s, said to feature a dashing young RAF pilot: Richard Branson.
John Birmingham's Axis of Time Trilogy begins in a manner similar to Warship Gunner's opening scene.
Two years later he had a small role as a welfare officer in the book to film production He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, the novel was written by John Birmingham.
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More recent examples include the many science fiction and military novelists whose names are borrowed in the Axis of Time by John Birmingham, and the Lachlan Fox thriller series by James Clancy Phelan.