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Is part of Tomorrow Series John Marsden , 1993 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Dead of the Night
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'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).

Notes

  • Dedication: To my brother Sam, a loved and loving man.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Korean, Chinese and Japanese, and has an Asian-Australian character, Lee, of Thai and Vietnamese heritage.


  • 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.
     

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Boston, Massachusetts,
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Houghton Mifflin ,
      1994 .
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      Extent: 278p.
      Edition info: 1st American ed.
      Reprinted: 1997
      ISBN: 0395837340
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 1995 .
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      Extent: 271p.
      Reprinted: 1995 Reprinted twice. , 1996 , 2000
      ISBN: 033035647X (pbk.)
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan , 2002 .
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      Extent: 271p.
      ISBN: 0330363905 (pbk.)
    • Lindfield, Chatswood - Gordon - Castlecrag area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Scholastic Australia , 2006 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 June 2006
      ISBN: 9780439829113
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Pan Macmillan Australia , 2010 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 1vp.
      Edition info: Film tie-in edition
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 01 August 2010
      ISBN: 9780330403818
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Quercus ,
      2012 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 5th January 2012
      ISBN: 9780857388735, 0857388738
Alternative title: Nar Natten Ar Som Morkast
Language: Swedish

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

More for Tomorrow Fans Tristan Swanwick , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 December 2010; (p. 37)
Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia Adrian Caesar , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50)
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers Stephen Matthews , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 60-61)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel ; Mr Enigmatic Jenny Pausacker , 1994 single work novel ; Friend of My Heart Judith Clarke , 1994 single work novel ; Radical Take-Offs Glyn Parry , 1994 selected work short story
John Marsden : 'Fighting On' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182)
Teenage War Characters Live on Wits and Wiliness Terry O'Connor , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 March 1996; (p. 20)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel
[Review] The Dead of the Night Kevin Steinberger , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 10 no. 1 1995; (p. 30)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel
[Review] The Dead of the Night Corine Pearson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 9 no. 1 1995; (p. 22)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel
Measure for Merit Nicola Robinson , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20-21 May 1995; (p. rev 8)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel ; Roadies Ted Ottley , 1994 single work novel ; Shadow Alley : Nine Crime Stories 1995 anthology short story
Forecasts Eleanor Thomas , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 74 no. 1050 1994; (p. 28)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel
From the Word Go : Books for Younger Readers Stephen Matthews , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1994-1995) no. 167 1994; (p. 54-55) Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 60-61)

— Review of The Dead of the Night John Marsden , 1994 single work novel ; Mr Enigmatic Jenny Pausacker , 1994 single work novel ; Friend of My Heart Judith Clarke , 1994 single work novel ; Radical Take-Offs Glyn Parry , 1994 selected work short story ; Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret : A Tale of Mayhem, Mystery and Moisture Geoffrey McSkimming , 1994 single work children's fiction
More for Tomorrow Fans Tristan Swanwick , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 16 December 2010; (p. 37)
Invasions of the Mind : John Marsden and the Threat from Asia Adrian Caesar , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 157 1999; (p. 46-50)
John Marsden : 'Fighting On' John Foster , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 173-182)
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