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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Tomorrow Series
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Notes

  • Prequel to The Ellie Chronicles.
  • In November 2006, the Tomorrow series was recognised as the highest selling series for adolescents in Australian publishing. In presenting the award to John Marsden, Pan Macmillan reported that two million copies of the books had been sold.

Affiliation Notes

  • 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.

Includes

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y separately published work icon Tomorrow, When the War Began When the War Began John Marsden , Chippendale : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1993 Z796506 1993 single work novel young adult (taught in 1 units) Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive. (Source: Trove)
2
y separately published work icon The Dead of the Night John Marsden , Chippendale : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1994 Z91026 1994 single work novel young adult

'Hell is still the safest place on earth.

'When you've run out of choices, you've only got yourself.

'As war rages, as the enemy closes in, as Ellie and her friends fight for their lives, they are left with nothing. Nothing but courage, spirit and pride' (Source: bookseller's website).
3
y separately published work icon The Third Day, The Frost John Marsden , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1995 Z543366 1995 single work novel young adult

'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)
4
y separately published work icon Darkness, Be My Friend John Marsden , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1996 Z8027 1996 single work novel young adult As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield. (Source: Trove)
5
y separately published work icon Burning for Revenge John Marsden , South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1997 Z416123 1997 single work novel young adult 'When you're on your knees there's only one thing to do ... stand up again! Ellie and her friends have stared defeat in the face. They have felt its hot breath.They have been bashed and battered by it, brought to breaking point. Now it's time to hit back. Now it's time to come out fighting. Now they really are "Burning for Revenge!"' (Source: Trove)
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y separately published work icon The Night Is For Hunting John Marsden , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1998 Z379280 1998 single work novel young adult 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)
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y separately published work icon The Other Side of Dawn John Marsden , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1999 Z531693 1999 single work novel young adult Ellie and her friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand troops. (Source: Trove)

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This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)
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