AustLit
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
AbstractHistoryArchive Description
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).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
-
Winifred Laws' Lost Adventures
2023
single work
essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 162 2023; - y Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990 Z1735833 1999 single work criticism
- y Australian Science Fiction for Children and Adolescents: 1940-1990 Z1735833 1999 single work criticism
-
Winifred Laws' Lost Adventures
2023
single work
essay
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 162 2023;
Last amended 28 Apr 2015 16:20:28
Export this record