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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Girl from Tomorrow Part II : Tomorrow's End
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A sequel to The Girl from Tomorrow, The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End begins with Alana returning to her own time with Jenny, who has been badly wounded and needs the advanced medical treatment Alana's people can offer. But with both Silverthorn and Jenny out of their own time, Alana's people begin to fear that their time travel experiments are affecting the course of history. They restore both Silverthorn and Jenny to their own times and return once again to 3000AD--to find it a radioactive wasteland. Alana must trace the cause of the disaster, which leads her to 2500AD and Draco, malevolent controller of GlobeCorp, the company that controls all resources in the polluted, unhappy dystopia that is 2500AD.

Likes its predecessor and the later programs Spellbinder and Spellbinder II: Land of the Dragon Lord, The Girl from Tomorrow II was a collaboration between Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson, although in this case Thomson is only credited with the story and Shirrefs with the actual screenplays.

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y separately published work icon Tomorrow's End Mark Shirrefs , John Thomson , Rydalmere : Hodder and Stoughton , 1991 Z837315 1991 single work novel young adult adventure science fiction
form y separately published work icon The Girl from Tomorrow Mark Shirrefs , John Thomson , ( dir. Kathy Mueller ) Australia : Film Australia , 1992 Z1842870 1992 series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction

Alana lives in the year 3000AD, a utopian time in which the citizens' only concern is the ramifications of The Great Disaster that befell the world in 2500AD. While participating in a time travel experiment, Alana is kidnapped by Silverthorn, a criminal from the year 2500AD, whom her tutor has accidentally brought back with her. Escaping from Silverthorn in the year 1990AD, Alana elicits the assistance of local girl Jenny to help her both stop Silverthorn and get back to the time capsule before she is stranded permanently in the past.

The Girl from Tomorrow was an early collaboration between Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson, who had previously both written for the short-lived sit-com Let the Blood Run Free. The pair became significant figures in Australian children's science-fiction and fantasy television: together, they went on to write The Girl from Tomorrow Part II: Tomorrow's End, Spellbinder, and Spellbinder II: Land of the Dragon Lord.
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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)
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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