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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Orphans
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'Left behind on a dying world, three children wander the broken and abandoned remains of civilisation. Katie, BB and Hat seek what little life has left for them while hiding from the other survivors who still roam the land. Scavengers pick at the bones and ruins of the world. Soldiers seek to maintain control and order in the automated remains of the city. A ragtag militia of survivors and bitter revolutionaries, bent on overthrowing any remnants of the old political powers. One last daring gamble set these desperate few on a collision course, but how much are they prepared to risk for the chance to hope?' (Publication summary)

Affiliation Notes

  • Preppers and Survivalism in the AustLit Database

    This work has been affiliated with the Preppers and Survivalism project due to its relationship to either prepping or prepper-inflected survivalism more generally, and contains one or more of the following:

    1. A strong belief in some imminent threat
    2. Taking active steps to prepare for that perceived threat

    • A range of activities not necessarily associated with ‘prepping’ take on new significance, when they are undertaken with the express purpose of preparing for and/or surviving perceived threats, e.g., gardening, abseiling.
    • The plausibility of the threat, and the relative “reasonable-ness” of the response, don’t affect this definition. E.g., if someone is worried about climate change and climate disasters, and they respond by moving from a riverbank location in Cairns, or to a highland region of New Zealand, this makes them a prepper. If someone else is worried about brainwashing rays from outer space, and they respond by making a tinfoil hat, that makes them a prepper. 

    3. A character or characters (or text) who self-identify as a ‘prepper’, or some synonymous/modified term: ‘financial preppers’, ‘weekend preppers’, ‘fitness preppers’, etc.

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      Australia,
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      Dan Prior ,
      2020 .
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      Extent: 541p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 16 June 2020
      ISBN: 9781649451873
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