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Title: Children of the Star by Sylvia Louise Engdahl ISBN: 1892065142 Publisher: Meisha Merlin Publishing Pub. Date: 10 January, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A welcome end to a long-loved story
Comment: I bought "Heritage of the Star" (UK title) when I was 11, more or less at random from the Puffin Book Club, and it remained my favourite book for years and was lent to everyone I know. It was one of the first science fiction books I had ever read that made me THINK (and wasn't just Boys Stuff in Space), and its outcome surprised and amazed me. It had never occurred to me that there could be sequels, so I was delighted to find this trilogy at Amazon and finally read the rest of the story. Science (and Science Fiction) may have moved on, but this remains one of the best stories for teenagers (and everyone else) I've ever read; it deserves a much higher profile - buy it for yourself and every young person you know who likes to daydream and think about the bigger things in life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A life-determining story
Comment: The first book in this trilogy literally helped determine the entire course of my life. I read it when I was 11 years old, and the main character's determination to pursue truth at all costs, and his struggles with the issue of faith, absolutely fired my imagination. My career today as a Christian preacher was molded and shaped by concepts I first met in this book. I was 33 when I finally got to read the other two books, and was gratified to learn that author makes no compromises in the rest of the story. In fact, the character's struggles in the final book in many ways mirror the struggles of my own life.
I have since bought 2 copies for friends, and have loaned my copy to anyone who will read it. Buy this book. There should be more of its kind in the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: this book was formative in my life
Comment: The first book in this trilogy, This Star Shall Abide, literally helped determine the course of my life. It took years before I realized I was following a similar course to that of its main character, a course I first read of when I was in about fifth grade. The main character, Noren, is unflinching in his search for Truth with a capital T, a search that demands that he face the hardest of questions and challenge the heirarchical status quo of the world he was born into.
You don't have to like or even be interested in science fiction to love this story. It's about the highest strivings of the best of humans. It's a terrific model in many ways for the right way of approaching the world. It's smart, it's cleverly constructed, and it's challenging.
The second book I find a little thinner in its reverberations in my life, although my personal struggles -- which on the second book's subject also mirror the main character's -- have led me to essentially the same conclusions. The story grows richer each time I reread it.
I only found out today that there WAS a third installment in the saga. I look forward to reading it.
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Title: Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon, Lois Lowry ISBN: 0802787649 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Far Side of Evil by Sylvia Louise Engdahl ISBN: 0802788483 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry ISBN: 0440229499 Publisher: Laureleaf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Abhorsen by Garth Nix ISBN: 0060278250 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Perilous Gard by Richard J. Cuffari, Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard J Cuffari ISBN: 0618150730 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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