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y separately published work icon Space Demons Trilogy series - author  
Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Space Demons Trilogy
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A science-fiction series about four young players caught in a deadly computer game with a difference, battling against its powerful artifical intelligence.

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y separately published work icon Space Demons Gillian Rubinstein , Adelaide : Omnibus/Puffin , 1986 Z262453 1986 single work novel young adult science fiction

'Space Demons is a computer game with a difference - a prototype directly imported from Japan, and designed to lock four unlikely protagonists, Andrew Hayford, Elaine Taylor, Ben Challis and Mario Ferrone, in deadly combat with the sinister forces of its artificial intelligence. As the game draws them into its powerful ambit, Andrew, Elaine, Ben, and Mario must confront the darker sides of their own natures.' (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon Skymaze Gillian Rubinstein , Norwood : Omnibus/Puffin , 1989 Z179263 1989 single work children's fiction science fiction children's A new game reunites the four original players of "Space Demons" and it lures them into a compellingly beautiful but dangerous world in which their own real-life problems are chillingly reflected
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y separately published work icon Shinkei Gillian Rubinstein , Norwood : Omnibus Books , 1996 Z515503 1996 single work novel young adult science fiction When his daughter and four Australian children are caught in the thrall of his new game Shinkei, Professor Ito realizes that this powerful embryonic intelligence with the potential to make even dreams come true has to be destroyed, but not before the players have been rescued

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Children of the Apocalypse Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 108-134)

This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)

Untitled Sally Murdoch , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 20 no. 2 2006; (p. 80)

— Review of Space Demons Trilogy Gillian Rubinstein , 1986 series - author
Depth and Quality to Keep Every Child Happy Ronni Phillips , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 December 2004; (p. 21)
A Look at... Gillian Rubenstein's Trilogy : Space Demons, Skymaze and Shinkei H. M. Saxby , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 11 no. 2 1996; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Space Demons Trilogy Gillian Rubinstein , 1986 series - author
A Look at... Gillian Rubenstein's Trilogy : Space Demons, Skymaze and Shinkei H. M. Saxby , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 11 no. 2 1996; (p. 30-31)

— Review of Space Demons Trilogy Gillian Rubinstein , 1986 series - author
Untitled Sally Murdoch , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 20 no. 2 2006; (p. 80)

— Review of Space Demons Trilogy Gillian Rubinstein , 1986 series - author
Depth and Quality to Keep Every Child Happy Ronni Phillips , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 December 2004; (p. 21)
Children of the Apocalypse Roslyn Weaver , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Apocalypse in Australian Fiction and Film : A Critical Study 2011; (p. 108-134)

This chapter explores apocalypse in children's literature with reference to literary attitudes to children, nature and dystopia. Examinations of works by Lee Harding, Victor Kelleher, and John Marsden then focus on how these writers adapt apocalyptic themes for a juvenile audience. Their novels display tyranny, large-scale catastrophe, invasion, and children in danger, and their apocalyptic settings reveal anxieties about isolation, invasion, Indigenous land rights and colonization. (108)

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