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In a 21st century Australia where cities are armed fortifications and the population is kept docile by government-approved drugs, a group of young people determines to seek a more secure future in the unknown bush away from the threat of the Patrol.
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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.
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- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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A Series of Fortunate Readers : A Collaborative Review Article of Important Australasian YA Writing
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 32 2015;
— Review of Hitler's Daughter 1999 single work children's fiction ; The Book Thief 2005 single work novel ; Jasper Jones 2009 single work novel ; Tribe 2012- series - author novel ; The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1987 series - author novel ; Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel ; On the Jellicoe Road 2006 single work novel ; The Incredible Adventures Of Cinnamon Girl 2014 single work novel -
Making It Really Feral
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Making It Real : Proceedings of the Fourth Children's Literature Conference 1997; (p. 76-83) -
Post-Disaster Fiction : The Problematics of a Genre
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , [December] vol. 3 no. 3 1992; (p. 126-130)Discusses 'post-disaster' fiction and the preponderance of this genre-style within Australian children's fantasy.
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Living with Ourselves : Recent Australian Science Fiction for Children and Young People
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 185-189) Nimon observes that Australian science fiction for children tends to present futuristic narratives that are 'earthbound' rather than 'launching into the void between the stars or touching down on remote and wonderous planets' (185). She claims that writers of juvenile science fiction 'find Australia itself to be a challenging terrain...a continent whose people are neither comfortable nor assured in their possession of it' (185). Following a discussion of novels by Lee Harding (Displaced Persons, Waiting for the End of the World), Victor Kelleher (Taronga, The Makers), and Gillian Rubinstein (Beyond the Labyrinth, Skymaze and Space Demons), Nimon claims that as well as the tendency of Australian science fiction for children to remain earthbound, there is a pervasive theme of individualization, 'where the dangers encountered and the foes met are the powers of our own desires and weaknesses; we battle to control our unruly selves' and as such, 'the future lies in our own hands' (188). -
Analogues of Anomie : Lee Harding's Novels
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 3 (Issue 30) 1990; (p. 5-13)
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A Real Kid Tries to Swim in the Horrible Sea of Puberty
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 February 1984; (p. 45)
— Review of Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel -
The Heady Days of '69 Revisited
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22 June 1985; (p. 45)
— Review of Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel -
Untitled
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 30)
— Review of Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel -
Untitled
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 May 1985;
— Review of Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel -
Untitled
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , April no. 91 1984; (p. 57)
— Review of Waiting for the End of the World 1983 single work novel -
Analogues of Anomie : Lee Harding's Novels
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 10 no. 3 (Issue 30) 1990; (p. 5-13) -
Living with Ourselves : Recent Australian Science Fiction for Children and Young People
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Children's Literature Association Quarterly , vol. 15 no. 4 1990; (p. 185-189) Nimon observes that Australian science fiction for children tends to present futuristic narratives that are 'earthbound' rather than 'launching into the void between the stars or touching down on remote and wonderous planets' (185). She claims that writers of juvenile science fiction 'find Australia itself to be a challenging terrain...a continent whose people are neither comfortable nor assured in their possession of it' (185). Following a discussion of novels by Lee Harding (Displaced Persons, Waiting for the End of the World), Victor Kelleher (Taronga, The Makers), and Gillian Rubinstein (Beyond the Labyrinth, Skymaze and Space Demons), Nimon claims that as well as the tendency of Australian science fiction for children to remain earthbound, there is a pervasive theme of individualization, 'where the dangers encountered and the foes met are the powers of our own desires and weaknesses; we battle to control our unruly selves' and as such, 'the future lies in our own hands' (188). -
Making It Really Feral
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Making It Real : Proceedings of the Fourth Children's Literature Conference 1997; (p. 76-83) -
Post-Disaster Fiction : The Problematics of a Genre
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , [December] vol. 3 no. 3 1992; (p. 126-130)Discusses 'post-disaster' fiction and the preponderance of this genre-style within Australian children's fantasy.
- Dandenong Ranges, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,
- Bush,