Similarities To Other John Marsden Novels
- In Marsden’s 1988 novel The Journey the main character finds a hut belonging to a dead hermit. A similar sequence occurs in Tomorrow, When the War Began.
- In Out of Time (1990) the protagonist’s country, implied to be Australia, is at war with an unspecified enemy. The protagonist has a sister called Ellie.
- An Australia type nation is invaded in John Marsden and Shaun Tan's picture book The Rabbits (1998)
- Home and Away (2008), a picture book by John Marsden and Matt Ottley, tells the story of a family fleeing from a war-torn Australia. Their story is similar to the story of how Lee’s mother came to Australia as a refugee.
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