Terra Nullius questions

Hi All,

I'm looking forward to seeing you all tonight.
Please feel free to bring your slippers!



Question 1 -
Did you understand the book to be speculative or science fiction - or not until it was made explicit?

Question 2
In the first third of the book did you find anything in the story unbelivable or to ring false?

Question 3
What purpose did the author have in confusing/allowing the reader to believe that the first third of the book was about English invasion into Aboriginal Australia?

Question 4
Do you feel a belonging to the land of an area or of a type of landscape?

Question 5
Did the book change your feelings on the current challenges Aboroginal people face?

Question 6
Discuss that the author felt it necessary to use speculative fiction in order to have the (assumed) non-aboriginal reader identify with the natives.

Question 7
The heat and lack of water are both salvation and death in the book.  Do you think this is paticularly Australian focus?


I think that will do for now - I am still madly trying to finish it before this evening.  See you then.

Trilby