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'Pandora Jones wakes in an infirmary - her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her family has succumbed to a plague pandemic which almost wiped out humanity. Pan is one of the survivors who have been admitted to The School - a quarantined, heavily guarded survival-skills facility - to recover their strength, hone their skills and prepare for whatever comes next. Pandora's skill is intuition, but how useful will it be outside the secure walls of The School? And what if it leads her to question where the truth lies...' (Publication summary)
Affiliation Notes
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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.
As a tier one work, this particular text has been identified as adhering to all three of the prepper criteria as outlined in the project definition and thus is of particular importance as a prepper text in the AustLit database. This work is one of the few examples within an Australian context that we have identified as pertaining to prepping according to our robust definition. These texts contain at least one prepper character and are in direct conversation with prepping as a movement, subculture, ideology, and set of behaviours.
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Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Young Adult
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 66)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel ; The Firebird Mystery 2012 single work novel ; Wild Dreams And Other Fun Things... 2013 single work children's fiction -
Serial Age
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 71)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel ; Crooked Leg Road 2014 single work novel -
[Review] Admission
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 40)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel
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[Review] Admission
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 29 no. 2 2014; (p. 40)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel -
Serial Age
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 362 2014; (p. 71)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel ; Crooked Leg Road 2014 single work novel -
Young Adult
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , June 2014; (p. 66)
— Review of Admission 2014 single work novel ; The Firebird Mystery 2012 single work novel ; Wild Dreams And Other Fun Things... 2013 single work children's fiction
Awards
- 2015 selected White Ravens