The New Unusual (novel)

 was the fifteenth novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart series.

Publisher's summary
It's the early 1970s, a time of change, a time of turmoil, a time of surrealism, LSD and the Age of Aquarius, a time of fads, Moon landings and wars, and the young people of the world are seeking something new - and unusual!

For Anne Travers, an encounter with a so-called "dream egg" is just the beginning of a long nightmare. Her scientific curiosity aroused, Anne begins to probe the secret underground scene known as "dream-ins" where students and others meet to get involved with a new craze and, perhaps, something far more alien to human experience.

And for Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who finds himself drawn into Anne's investigations, this probe will lead himand the Fifth Operational Corps to the wilderness of the Australian Outback, to a little opal mining town called Coober Pedy and a search for answers.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Doctor Anne Travers
 * Second Lieutenant William Bishop
 * Owain Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Dylan Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Regimental Sergeant Major Samson Ware
 * Lance Corporal Tracy Ward
 * Major Keith Bartlett
 * Captain Shawn Miles
 * Lieutenant Glen Collins
 * Doctor Stephen Lindsay
 * Kenny
 * Linda
 * Old Tom
 * Baxter
 * Colonel Alexander Rafferty
 * Lachlan Carter
 * Beth Morris
 * Doctor Beauman
 * Travis Haynes
 * Julia Lake
 * Grant Findlay
 * Addison Kelly
 * Galdani Commander
 * Cameron Flynn
 * Sebastian Goff
 * Vernon Goff
 * Edward Travers
 * Margaret Travers
 * Cledwyn Jones
 * Lou Dill
 * Matilda
 * David
 * Private Lincoln
 * Private Morgan
 * Mack
 * Corporal Perjanik
 * Private Meagher

Worldbuilding

 * Corporal Ward is aged about twenty-fives by exposure to the Dream Egg.

Continuity

 * Ward mentions the Moon Blink substance. (PROSE: Moon Blink)
 * Owain calls Bishop 'G', just like Bishop has previously called Owain 'Little G'. (PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock, Night of the Intelligence)
 * Anne recalls the use of drugs at Fang Rock and Keynsham. (PROSE: Beast of Fang Rock, The Dreamer's Lament)
 * Lethbridge-Stewart thinks twice about contacting Sally Wright about Anne. (PROSE: The Daughters of Earth)
 * Dylan and Owain discuss the fall of the Vault and Dylan's father, James Lethbridge-Stewart. (PROSE: Night of the Intelligence)