{"title":"Sylvia Engdahl","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"journey-between-worlds-paperback","title":"Journey Between Worlds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelinda Ashley has a plan for her life, and a trip to Mars isn't part of it. When she receives a spaceliner ticket as a high school graduation gift from her dad, she is dismayed, but reluctantly agrees to go with him--in part because she's infuriated by her fiance's high-handed declaration that she can't. Her outlook begins to change when she meets Alex Preston, a second-generation Martian colonist who is going home after college on Earth. Alex believes settling Mars is important. He's looking forward to the role he expects to play in the colony's future. Melinda finds this hard to understand, yet she is more and more drawn to him and, while on Mars, to his family. Torn between what she has always wanted and upsetting new feelings, she wonders if she can ever again be content. It takes tragedy and a terrifying experience on the Martian moon Phobos to make her aware of what really matters to her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe National Space Society's book reviews called this novel \"A must-read for all future space pioneers who wish to persuade their friends to join them in making that future journey between the worlds of the known and the unknown.\" The \u003cem\u003eWichita Falls Times \u003c\/em\u003edescribed it as \"absorbing science fiction ... Intensive first-person characterizations and a love story one can really care about.\" Although it's set on Mars, it's not about space technology or exotic adventure. It's centered on the experiences of ordinary people and is usually enjoyed more by readers who like romance than by avid science fiction fans. While intended for Young Adult readers, adults also enjoy it. A reviewer for \u003cem\u003eRomance Junkies\u003c\/em\u003e called it \"captivating and thought provoking. There's much more to this book than romance or a coming of age type of story, but instead the concepts it holds are what make it appealing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50403096461535,"sku":"9798985853261","price":14.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UVlMYjBHMGI1R2ltQ3FOaHQvMjdFdz09.webp?v=1782129157"},{"product_id":"this-star-shall-abide-aka-heritage-of-the-star-paperback","title":"This Star Shall Abide aka Heritage of the Star - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e(This book is known in the UK as Heritage of the Star)\u003c\/p\u003e Noren can see that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It's wrong that only those few have access to the impenetrable City, which he has always longed to enter. Above all, it is wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. Unable to believe in the Prophecy that promises these restrictions will someday end, he declares it to be a fraud and defies the High Lew under which they are enforced. His family and the girl to whom he is betrothed reject him. Yet he cannot turn back from the path that leads him to the mysterious fate awaiting heretics.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003eThis classic science fiction novel is enjoyed by readers age 12 and up as well as by teens and adults who go on to read the other two books in the Children of the Star trilogy. Originally published in hardcover by Atheneum in the US and by Gollancz in the UK under the title Heritage of the Star,  it was the winner of a Christopher Award given for \"affirmation of the highest values of the human spirit.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50403100098783,"sku":"9798985853230","price":17.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ubfeilKOVr9798985853230.webp?v=1782129158"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/sylvia-engdahl.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}