'The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s sanctuary comes at a price.'
'When their charismatic leader’s hidden agenda is revealed it becomes impossible to know who to trust. Those locked out of The Ark become increasingly desperate to enter, while those within begin to yearn for escape.
'The Ark delves into the fears and concerns raised by the environmental predicament facing the world today, exploring human nature in desperate times. At its heart it asks: can our moral compass ever return to true north after a period in which every decision might be a matter of life and death and the only imperative is survival?' (Publication summary)
The novel is accompanied by a website that 'invites readers to dive deeper into the world of the novel, and to continue to develop that world by sharing their own content inspired by the novel'.
Source: http://thearkbook.com (Sighted: 10/01/2018)
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
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.
'Being an author no longer means being confined to the printed page—Cassie Hamer investigates new opportunities for writers and storytellers.' (Publication abstract)
'Being an author no longer means being confined to the printed page—Cassie Hamer investigates new opportunities for writers and storytellers.' (Publication abstract)
