Wall Around Eden

Rating:
Summary: Very Good and Unconventional Science Fiction
Review: This book is an interesting combination of pacifist-Quaker tract, coming of age novel, and post-holocaust science fiction. The story is set in a near future after a nuclear holocaust-nuclear winter. There are small colonies of survivors in communities maintained by enigmatic aliens, whom some survivors suspect of triggering the holocaust. The main character is a young woman coming to maturity in a community of survivors in Pennsylvania, a community where many survivors are Quakers. The point of the story is the necessity of pacifism and Quaker respect for life beliefs. The characterization is convincing and the author's depiction of this future is equally convincing. The quality of writing is very good.

Rating:
Summary: Very Good and Unconventional Science Fiction
Review: This book is an interesting combination of pacifist-Quaker tract, coming of age novel, and post-holocaust science fiction. The story is set in a near future after a nuclear holocaust-nuclear winter. There are small colonies of survivors in communities maintained by enigmatic aliens, whom some survivors suspect of triggering the holocaust. The main character is a young woman coming to maturity in a community of survivors in Pennsylvania, a community where many survivors are Quakers. The point of the story is the necessity of pacifism and Quaker respect for life beliefs. The characterization is convincing and the author's depiction of this future is equally convincing. The quality of writing is very good.

Rating:
Summary: Life Goes On
Review: This story was well enough written, but it lacked some pizzazz or something.

It told the story of a community after the nuclear holocaust, people are protected by some advanced species. The proctectors can only communicate in pictures and, therfore, not very complex ideas.

The story revolves around a young girl, coming of age, who is rebellious, but can not really find anything to rebel against. The people are well enough off and have freedom within the confines of their community, but they cannot go beyond a certain distant away.

The be all to end all is that she gets to know their captors better and grows to see them as protectors. I think there is an allogory to pregnancy and birth in here also, but I did not look or think too hard about it. It is a pretty good story.