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'What's the biggest danger you can think of? This is bigger. What's the toughest challenge you can imagine? This is tougher. What's the greatest fear you have?
'You're about to find out.
"How long do you think they'll keep looking for us?" I asked Lee, as we lay there.
"Until they find us," he answered grimly.
'They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now it's winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends.' (Source: Trove)
Notes
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Dedication: To my sister and long-time friend, Rosalind Alexander.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and has an Asian-Australian character, Lee, of Thai and Vietnamese heritage.
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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 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.
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Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50) -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1999
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 4-5 December 1999; (p. 72)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 27-28 June 1998; (p. 51)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
John Marsden : 'Fighting On'
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182) -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 27-28)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel
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[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 40 no. 2 1996; (p. 36-37)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 11 no. 1 1996; (p. 35)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 10 no. 1 1996; (p. 27-28)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
[Review] The Third Day, the Frost [and] Earthsong
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 75 no. 1061 1995; (p. 56)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel ; Earthsong 1995 single work novel -
Kept on Tenterhooks
1995
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 7 October 1995; (p. 11)
— Review of The Third Day, The Frost 1995 single work novel -
Young Adult Fiction Prize
1996
single work
column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , November vol. 11 no. 5 1996; (p. 39) -
Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50) -
John Marsden : 'Fighting On'
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182) -
The Festival Literary Awards : 1996
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1996; (p. 8-10) -
Bleak House, or The Sun Also Rises : A View of Young Adult Fiction
1996
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 4 no. 4 1996; (p. 3-4)
Awards
- 2004 YABBA — Hall of Fame
- 1999 winner COOL Award — Fiction for Older Readers
- 1998 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 1996 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards — BookPeople Book of the Year
- 1996 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction