Series

Joella, Peter and Liane

Gillian Rubinstein · 2 novels · 1992–2001

Gillian Rubinstein's Galax-Arena opens with three Australian children — Joella, Peter and Liane — kidnapped from a train station and transported to the Galax-Arena, where children stolen from Earth are forced to perform death-defying acrobatic stunts for the entertainment of the alien inhabitants of the planet Vexak. Terra-Farma continues their story.

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  • 1990s1
  • 2000s1

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Mood

Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.

this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone

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