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Is part of Tomorrow Series John Marsden , 1993 series - author novel (number 6 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 The Night Is For Hunting
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While trying to care for a group of abandoned young children, five Australian teenagers continue their struggle for survival and their resistance against the enemy invading their homeland. (Source: Trove)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Charlotte Lindsay (Austin), without whom there'd have been no Ellie.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Japanese and Chinese, and has an Asian-Australian character, Lee, of Thai and Vietnamese heritage.


  • 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 two work, this text has been identified as key to prepping in a broader, more conceptual relationship. These texts have been classified as ‘key’ prepper-adjacent texts that are important to prepping, even if they themselves are not about prepping or do not include preppers. These texts have been identified in the database through various means such as interviews with preppers, scholarship on preppers, and online prepper forums.
     

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 1999 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 252p.
      Reprinted: 1999 Reprinted twice. , 2000 Reprinted four times.
      ISBN: 0330361368
    • Boston, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Houghton Mifflin ,
      2001 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 1 v.p.
      ISBN: 0618070265
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 2002 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: [viii], 252 p.p.
      ISBN: 0330363948 (pbk.)
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Quercus ,
      2013 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 252p.p.
      ISBN: 9781782061274, 1782061274
Alternative title: I Skymningens Land
Language: Swedish
    • Stockholm,
      c
      Sweden,
      c
      Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      BonnierCarlsen ,
      2000 .
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      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: 248p.
      ISBN: 9163837595

Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Scanners Bruce Gillespie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80 2010; (p. 64)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel ; Luminous Greg Egan , 1998 selected work short story
[Review] The Night Is for Hunting Alison Hurst , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: School Librarian , Autumn vol. 49 no. 3 2001; (p. 158)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
[Review] The Night Is for Hunting Frances Bradburn , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: Booklist , 1 November vol. 98 no. 5 2001; (p. 466)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
[Review] The Night Is for Hunting Peta Harrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 29)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
Rollicking Teen Adventure Katharine England , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 March 1999; (p. 25)

— Review of Fat Boy Saves the World Ian Bone , 1998 single work novel ; The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
[Review] The Night Is for Hunting Marcus Fitz-Gerald , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 13 no. 5 1998; (p. 38)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
Scanners Bruce Gillespie , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction , August no. 80 2010; (p. 64)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel ; Luminous Greg Egan , 1998 selected work short story
[Review] The Night Is for Hunting Peta Harrison , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 13 no. 2 1999; (p. 29)

— Review of The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
Rollicking Teen Adventure Katharine England , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 March 1999; (p. 25)

— Review of Fat Boy Saves the World Ian Bone , 1998 single work novel ; The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
Vitriolic Virtuoso Murray Waldren , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 October-1 November 1998; (p. 12)

— Review of Treading on Dreams Kristin Williamson , 1998 single work novel ; Everything's Fine : A Beginner's Guide to Thwarting Primary Nihilism Helen Razer , 1998 selected work prose ; Wild Places Jerry Olsen , 1998 single work novel ; The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , 1998 single work novel
John Marsden : 'Fighting On' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182)
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