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The Dead I Know  by Scot Gardner & The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling

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September 2011, no. 334

The Dead I Know  by Scot Gardner

Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 208 pp, 9781742373843

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling

Penguin, $19.95 pb, 259 pp, 9780143206101

The Dead I Know  by Scot Gardner & The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling

by
September 2011, no. 334

The way nostalgia works, according to theorists, is that we pine for the era just before our own. This may be why the twenty-something musicians of today mine the sounds of the 1980s. But does this pattern succeed in Young Adult fiction? What does an author gain by setting his or her story in the ‘nostalgia zone’ of potential readers?

Stephen Mansfield reviews 'The Dead I Know' by Scot Gardner and 'The Comet Box' by Adrian Stirling

The Dead I Know 

by Scot Gardner

Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 208 pp, 9781742373843

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

The Comet Box

by Adrian Stirling

Penguin, $19.95 pb, 259 pp, 9780143206101

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