![]() ![]() ![]() Ellie and her friends must use their skills and wit to avoid capture, survive in occupied Australia and fight back against the enemy. Their family and friends have been rounded up in the town’s showgrounds, which has become a makeshift prisoner-of-war camp. Tomorrow When The War Began by John Marsden (1993)Įllie and her friends return from a weekend camping trip to discover the country has been invaded by the armed forces of a unspecified foreign country. Here are seven of them, in the order in which I read them.ġ. Series such as The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner by James Dashner and Divergent by Veronica Roth have become blockbusters, as books and movies, but there are also a number of well-written and intriguing novels set in a re-imagined Australian future. ![]() Of course there are more recent classics, such as The Trial by Franz Kafka (1925), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932) and 1984 by George Orwell (1949).įast forward a few more decades and we have Z for Zachariah by Robert O’Brien, which was published in 1974, and Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, both of which have found their way onto the school curriculum at various times. ![]() With the current popularity of dystopian novels, it would be easy to think it’s a recent phenomena however, it apparently dates back to the eighteenth century, and includes Gulliver’s Travels (1726). ![]()
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