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Issue Details: First known date: 1944... 1944 Through Space to the Planets
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A young spaceship pilot and his two little brothers end up on a strange planet. The characters continue their adventures in Law's Rangers of the Universe.

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y separately published work icon Rangers of the Universe Winifred Law , Sydney : New Century Press , 1945 Z955668 1945 single work children's fiction children's science fiction John Foster writes that this work and Law's Through Space to the Planets 'are of historical interest, even if they might not pass Egoff's test for true science fiction stories. The protagonists are a twenty-one-year-old spaceship pilot and his two young brothers, one of whom accidentally wrenches at the controls and send the ship into outer space. Law totally ignores every aspect of scientific possibility, for her characters, flying randomly through space, soon land safely on an unknown planet, which has breathable air and is inhabited by "queer humans" (Through Space to the Planets 23) [...] Rangers of the Universe merely lists their many exploits before their return home' ('Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990' 85-86).
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Winifred Laws' Lost Adventures Gillian Polack , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 162 2023;
y separately published work icon Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990 John Foster , Z1735833 1999 single work criticism
The Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction Sean McMullen , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 12 no. 3 (Issue 36) 1995; (p. 3-28)
The Golden Age of Australian Science Fiction Sean McMullen , 1995 single work column
— Appears in: Science Fiction : A Review of Speculative Literature , vol. 12 no. 3 (Issue 36) 1995; (p. 3-28)
y separately published work icon Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990 John Foster , Z1735833 1999 single work criticism
Winifred Laws' Lost Adventures Gillian Polack , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 162 2023;
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