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'She has to escape.
But who else is out there?
And can anyone survive days like this?
'I want to go back to the days when life made sense. The days before our parents became strange; before the warming ate away at all the living things in the world; before The Committee and their Blacktroopers. Before the Wall.
'Lily is a prisoner in her own home. Forced to stay inside by The Committee and guarded by their increasingly distant parents, Lily and her brother Daniel are beginning to ask why. Then, when Daniel disappears just before his seventeenth birthday, Lily knows she is next.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Young Adult Dystopian Fiction in the Postnatural Age
Kelvin Grove
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Queensland University of Technology
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2016
10880106
2016
single work
thesis
This creative works thesis comprises an exegesis and a novel. Both explore the ways that a postnatural perspective can shape the reading and writing of young adult dystopian fiction. Approaching literature from a postnatural perspective can highlight a connection between shifts in a novel's key terms and the development of the protagonist towards understanding their world as an interconnected ecosystem. Through its grounding in ecocriticism and children's literature criticism, this research investigates the contributions a postnatural perspective offers young adult dystopian fiction generally, and specifically, in the development of the novel When the Cloud Hit the Kellys.
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How Do We Define the Climate Change Novel?
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 33-40) 'How do we best define a climate change novel? Given the complexities of climate change, as a real, scientific and cultural phenomenon, global warming demands a corresponding degree of complexity in fictional representation. Recent popular debates here and overseas raise further questions about what exactly constitutes a climate change novel. Does a climate change novel need to be set in the present? Or set in the future? Set during the time of climate change and extreme weather events, and the associated food scarcity and water wars, or can it be well after that —such as George Turner’s iconic The Sea and Summer? Are these novels best framed in context of utopian studies and science fiction studies? Andrew Milner has contextualised The Sea and Summer in terms of understanding the history of Australian science-fictional dystopias. For him, science fiction, whether utopian or dystopian , is ‘as good a place as any’ for ‘thought experiments about the politics of climate change’. He rejects the widespread ‘academic prejudice in literary studies against science fiction dystopias’ arguing that science fiction cannot readily be assimilated into either high literature or popular fiction (as genre). ' (33) -
End of the World Not So Far Off
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21) -
[Review] Days Like This
2011
single work
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 39)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
[Review] Days Like This
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 19 no. 4 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel
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Off the Shelf : Young Adult Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 13 August 2011; (p. 34)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
[Review] Days Like This
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 26 no. 4 2011; (p. 44)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
Inspiration and Imagination
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 2011; (p. 32)
— Review of The Invisible Hero 2011 single work children's fiction ; Cargo 2011 single work novel ; Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
[Review] Days Like This
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 19 no. 4 2011; (p. 15)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
[Review] Days Like This
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 55 no. 4 2011; (p. 39)
— Review of Days Like This 2010 single work novel -
Former Herald Journalist in Running for Amazon Novel Award
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 11) -
End of the World Not So Far Off
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 December - 1 January 2012; (p. 20-21) -
How Do We Define the Climate Change Novel?
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 33-40) 'How do we best define a climate change novel? Given the complexities of climate change, as a real, scientific and cultural phenomenon, global warming demands a corresponding degree of complexity in fictional representation. Recent popular debates here and overseas raise further questions about what exactly constitutes a climate change novel. Does a climate change novel need to be set in the present? Or set in the future? Set during the time of climate change and extreme weather events, and the associated food scarcity and water wars, or can it be well after that —such as George Turner’s iconic The Sea and Summer? Are these novels best framed in context of utopian studies and science fiction studies? Andrew Milner has contextualised The Sea and Summer in terms of understanding the history of Australian science-fictional dystopias. For him, science fiction, whether utopian or dystopian , is ‘as good a place as any’ for ‘thought experiments about the politics of climate change’. He rejects the widespread ‘academic prejudice in literary studies against science fiction dystopias’ arguing that science fiction cannot readily be assimilated into either high literature or popular fiction (as genre). ' (33) -
y
Young Adult Dystopian Fiction in the Postnatural Age
Kelvin Grove
:
Queensland University of Technology
,
2016
10880106
2016
single work
thesis
This creative works thesis comprises an exegesis and a novel. Both explore the ways that a postnatural perspective can shape the reading and writing of young adult dystopian fiction. Approaching literature from a postnatural perspective can highlight a connection between shifts in a novel's key terms and the development of the protagonist towards understanding their world as an interconnected ecosystem. Through its grounding in ecocriticism and children's literature criticism, this research investigates the contributions a postnatural perspective offers young adult dystopian fiction generally, and specifically, in the development of the novel When the Cloud Hit the Kellys.
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
- Sydney, New South Wales,