Children's literature

This guide helps you find science fiction books for children and young adults and includes eresources, journals, books and children's book awards. Keywords used to find fiction in our catalogue vary and this means that you will need to use a number of search strategies and resources to find fiction books in the theme of fantasy, depending on how much information you have to start with

To find a known title or author navigate to the Library catalogue and enter your terms in the large search box

To explore the breadth of the Library's holdings in this genre, enter any of the following 'science fiction', 'sci-fi' or 'science-fiction' plus permutations of the descriptors child, children or children's

If you have the author or title, simply enter those details into the Search box on our catalogue

To find our holdings of Australian science fiction go to our Library catalogue

Type in the phrase science fiction and then use the options from the boxes below the 'Search' box to narrow your search. Add further options from the Refine results list. Note the Active filters in this search

To identify Australian works of science fiction, you will need to search eresources and print indexes

Some Australian eresources and databases include

• Aurealis is the Australian online magazine for fantasy, science fiction and horror and includes book reviews and awards
• Eidonon net: Australian science fiction online is a website for the magazine of the same name which ran from 1995 to 2005
• Reading Time is an Australian magazine that provides reviews and award lists
• This is a link to the Library's sound recording of Catherine Jinks work of science fiction Eye to eye (1997)

Print resources

• Apocalypse in Australian fiction and film: a critical study (2011)
• Australian speculative fiction: a genre overview (2005)
• Encounters: an anthology of Australian speculative fiction (2004)
• Ethel the Aardvark is the Melbourne Science Fiction Club's magazine that began in 1985

Children's Book Awards

• Aurealis awards 
• Children's Book Council 1989 Book of the Year winner was Beyond the labyrinth by Gillian Rubinstein

Eresources and databases

• Analog science fiction & fact is a magazine that contains short science fiction stories, book reviews, biographies of personalities in science and trends in science and society
• Horn book magazine includes reviews and awards in science fiction
• Science fiction studies magazine that looks at whole field of science fiction, including children's and Australian science fiction

Print indexes

• Cambridge companion to utopian literature (2010)
• Encyclopedia of pulp fiction writers (2002)
• 500 essential graphic novels: the ultimate guide (2008)
• Science fiction and fantasy reference index, 1878-1995: an international author and subject index to history and criticism (1997)
• Science fiction authors (2009)
• Supernatural index: a listing of fantasy, supernatural, occult, weird and horror anthologies (1995)

Science Fiction Critiques

• Children's literature and the posthuman: animal, environment, cyborg (2015)
• Contemporary dystopian fiction for young adults: brave new teenagers (2013)
• Hollow earth: the long and curious history of imagining strange lands, fantastical creatures, advanced civilizations and marvellous machines below the earth's surface (2006)
• In other worlds: SF and the human imagination (2011)
• New world orders in contemporary children's fiction: utopian transformations (2008)
• Out of this world: science fiction but not as you know it (2011)
• Science fiction before 1900: imagination discovers technology (1994)
• Technology and identity in young adult fiction: the posthuman subject (2014)

Gillian Rubenstein's Space demons (1986), Skymaze (1989) and Beyond the labyrinth (1988)

 Ivan Southall's Simon Black in space (1952) and Simon Black and the spacemen (1955)

The web of time (1980) by Lee Harding

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Cinder (2012) by Melissa Meyer

Split infinity (2016) by Thalia Kalkipsakis