- Science fiction, Responsibility, Juvenile fiction, Fiction
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and meticulous.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Sylvia Engdahl
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 275
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Atheneum, Collier Macmillan
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780689205088
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“At the edge of the Enchanted Forest there lived a poor woodcutter who had four sons, the youngest of whom was named Georyn.”
See bio under Sylvia Engdahl. (Her middle name was used only on some hardcover editions of her Young Adult novels. Her novels for adults therefore are not included in lists where it appears.) Almost all nonfiction books that appear under her name were edited, not authored, by her.
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