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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Watch This Space
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y separately published work icon Out to Launch Colin Thompson , North Sydney : Random House , 2015 8039545 2015 single work children's fiction children's science fiction

'Stark and Laura Contrast with their children Jack and Primrose, Granny Apricot who they have never met before and a super-powerful robot rRego are sent by a TV reality show to live on the moon.

'However it isn't long before they get bored and are boldly going where no family has boldly, or even timidly, gone before. As they attempt to get back to Earth they end up on many different planets. Some are friendly. Some are hostile. Some are just plain weird - actually they are all weird. And - HOORAY - some have bacon.' (Publication summary)
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y separately published work icon In the Pink Colin Thompson , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2016 9174274 2016 single work children's fiction children's science fiction

'Wait a minute, Earth isn't meant to be pink, and have three moons . . . The Contrast family just wanted to return home after their five minutes of fame living on the moon for the ultimate reality television show, Watch This Space. But it seems that despite rRego the robot being smarter than every human alive, something went wrong when he set their spaceship on a course back to Earth.'

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First known date: 2015
    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2015 .
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