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Summary: This book got me hooked on sci-fi in 7th grade
Review: 2250 along with The Stars Are Ours and Star Born are fantastic books for young readers.Mike Murphy
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Summary: 2250 a.d.
Review: I also read this book back in high school(which was in paper back in 1963) was called Daybreak 2250 a.d., Son of Starman. It was the most unusual and interesting book I read at that time. Here I was on a farm in south central Ohio with this book that was my escape to the future; with it's Lizard People, concrete paths, futuristic pet Saber Tooth Tiger, and the 'Hot' areas of the post nuclear war cities. How great it was to reverse my, then, slow and average farm life with little to imagine of what the future would bring....to the ultimate of decline as we 'blow ourselves up' and only our grandchildrens' children to survive in what is left of the future world. A 'must read' for those with imagination for the future!!
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Summary: This book was my first sci-fi book read!
Review: I loved this book when I read it almost 30 years ago. It has stayed with me all this time. Fors was so cool the way he communicated with his cat. I only read it once but it has never really left my consciousness. i recommend it highly. I'm going to scour the second hand shops for a copy!
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Summary: This book has never left me!
Review: I read this book as a young teenager, and found it to be a compelling novel of man's search for understanding and acceptance of one's self. It was a great adventure story, one I've read so much the cover is falling off the book! The story was filled with so much symbolism for our times--ideas to reflect upon, and was very imaginative. Fors was a couragous wanderer, with a solid moral foundation, one whom I admired for his strength, courage and sense of adventure. I could almost see the Beast things, and the small plant creature struggling for their survival! I was constantly on edge while reading it and could hardly put it down. Needless to say I read it over and over, reliving the adventure. I'm looking for a new copy so that my book club could read this book!
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Summary: Daybreak 2250 A.D.
Review: I read this book in Junior High 25 years ago. Like many teenagers, I identified with the main character Fors. Alienated and rejected by his peers and community, he overcame adversity and succeeded. He was an outcast, but that isolation sharpened his strength, courage, intelligence and will to survive. Yes, Fors adventures piqued my interest. He was a fictional hero that I could identify with. Perhaps, in a small way this book helped me and I suppose many other "uncool" kids find the confidence to believe in ourselves and develop our own inner strength. Indeed, cleanly and simply written,this book reads as well today as it did all those years ago. I highly recommend it. In my opinion, Ms. Norton's best work.
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Summary: Daybreak 2250 A.D.
Review: I read this book in Junior High 25 years ago. Like many teenagers, I identified with the main character Fors. Alienated and rejected by his peers and community, he overcame adversity and succeeded. He was an outcast, but that isolation sharpened his strength, courage, intelligence and will to survive. Yes, Fors adventures piqued my interest. He was a fictional hero that I could identify with. Perhaps, in a small way this book helped me and I suppose many other "uncool" kids find the confidence to believe in ourselves and develop our own inner strength. Indeed, cleanly and simply written,this book reads as well today as it did all those years ago. I highly recommend it. In my opinion, Ms. Norton's best work.
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Summary: STARMANS SON
Review: I READ THIS WHILE IN GRADE SCHOOL, FOUND IT ON A BOOKMOBILE THAT CAME BY DURING THE SUMMER I WAS AN AVID READER AT AN EARLY AGE AND THIS WAS MY FIRST READING ON SCIENCE FICTION AND TO THIS DAY I THINK THE BEST BOOK WRITTEN BY ANDRE NORTON TO RELATE TO THE TITLE CHARACTER WAS EASY AND THE THOUGHT OF NUCLEAR WAR WAS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER AT THE TIME I READ IT I THINK IT WAS A GLIMPSE AT A POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR MANKIND AND NOT JUST FANTASY TO ME AT THE TIME I PLAN TO BUT THIS BOOK AND HAVE MY 14 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER READ IT I WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT DIDN'T REALIZE ANDRE NORTON WAS A WOMAN THINKING THAT SCIENCE FICTION WAS THE REALM OF MALE AUTHORS A GREAT BOOK TO START IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INTO SCIENCE FICTION
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Summary: STARMANS SON
Review: I READ THIS WHILE IN GRADE SCHOOL, FOUND IT ON A BOOKMOBILE THAT CAME BY DURING THE SUMMER. I WAS AN AVID READER AT AN EARLY AGE AND THIS WAS MY FIRST READING ON SCIENCE FICTION AND TO THIS DAY I THINK THE BEST BOOK WRITTEN BY ANDRE NORTON. TO RELATE TO THE TITLE CHARACTER WAS EASY AND THE THOUGHT OF NUCLEAR WAR WAS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER AT THE TIME I READ IT. I THINK IT WAS A GLIMPSE AT A POSSIBLE FUTURE FOR MANKIND AND NOT JUST FANTASY TO ME AT THE TIME. I PLAN TO BUY THIS BOOK AND HAVE MY 15 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER READ IT. I WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT DIDN'T REALIZE ANDRE NORTON WAS A WOMAN THINKING THAT SCIENCE FICTION WAS THE REALM OF MALE AUTHORS. A GREAT BOOK TO START READING IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN INTO SCIENCE FICTION
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Summary: Too good to be out-of print!
Review: It's difficult to write about this book without quoting the previous reviewers (whose comments I really enjoyed reading), because our individual discoveries of and reactions to "Star Man's Son" have been so similar. Like most of them, I first read this book years ago when I was a junior-high student, and it has stayed with me like no other science-fiction story before or since. My sons are adults now, but as teenagers they also read the book (on their mom's recommendation) and had the same reaction to it. (I might add that I re-read it at that time, and the story and the writing had lost none of its "magic" for me.) My own copy has long since disappeared....probably loaned to someone who forgot to return it, but I would love to find a copy and read it again. I read a lot, and my reading tastes are quite eclectic, but I do love a good science fiction story. It just seems they are getting harder and harder to find... the so-called "fantasy" type having taken over the genre in such a big way. I've often wondered why some enterprising movie-maker hasn't picked up on "Star Man's Son." It has all the ingredients for a great sci-fi film if whoever wrote the screenplay would stay true to Norton's story.
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Summary: Too good to be out-of print!
Review: It's difficult to write about this book without quoting the previous reviewers (whose comments I really enjoyed reading), because our individual discoveries of and reactions to "Star Man's Son" have been so similar. Like most of them, I first read this book years ago when I was a junior-high student, and it has stayed with me like no other science-fiction story before or since. My sons are adults now, but as teenagers they also read the book (on their mom's recommendation) and had the same reaction to it. (I might add that I re-read it at that time, and the story and the writing had lost none of its "magic" for me.) My own copy has long since disappeared....probably loaned to someone who forgot to return it, but I would love to find a copy and read it again. I read a lot, and my reading tastes are quite eclectic, but I do love a good science fiction story. It just seems they are getting harder and harder to find... the so-called "fantasy" type having taken over the genre in such a big way. I've often wondered why some enterprising movie-maker hasn't picked up on "Star Man's Son." It has all the ingredients for a great sci-fi film if whoever wrote the screenplay would stay true to Norton's story.
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