Q&A: John Marsden says he wouldn't write Tomorrow series now

Fellow author Michael Mohammed Ahmad calls Marsden’s books ‘paranoid white nationalist fantasy’

The author of Tomorrow When the War Began, John Marsden, says he would not have written a novel portraying the invasion by a foreign power today because of his “horror” towards Australia’s refugee policy.

Speaking on the ABC’s Q&A on Monday, Marsden was forced to defend his best-selling Tomorrow series, which tells the story of a group of teenagers who band together to resist the invasion by an apparently Asian foreign power.

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