LOTUS CAVES

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Summary: The beginning of great Science Fiction
Review: I remember checking this book out from the public library oh so long ago when I was a child. I loved this book and all of John Christopher's books when I first read them as a pre-teen and re-read them again and again as I was growing up. John Christopher's books are what made me a Science Fiction fan. I love stories of people living on other worlds or on this one altered a bit by some circumstance or another. This book and all of John Christopher's will make you look at the world and question the norm. Is freedom really freedom or is just a nice captivity?

I'm trying to gather all of his books so that my children can read them now...not so easy a task. If only I'd known then how difficult it would be to put all these pieces of literature together some day. After reading them so many times you feel that they will always be at your fingertips when you want to read them again. But sadly, some of them are rare and impossible to find.

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Summary: Under the surface...
Review: Life on the moon is boring. People live in a constant, artificial environment called the Bubble, where nothing can afford to be wasted. Marty was born on the moon, and he had never been to Earth. He makes friends with a misfit called Steve. They steal a crawler and go joyriding outside the Bubble.

When the crawler crashes through the moon's surface they find a very strange world indeed...

This is an interesting book about life in the future, but it wasn't as action packed as the Tripods Trilogy. Maybe because there aren't as many characters, or there isn't as much variety with location.

The book was published the same year Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. The Lotus Caves is set nearly 100 years after that event.

It's an interesting idea that verdant beauty could exist beneath something so arid and featureless. But recently scientists discovered water beneath the moon's surface, so maybe John Christopher wasn't so wide of the mark with this story.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: Well, I liked the idea of how they lived up on the moon, and how they lived. It was neatly written and everything was good. But I didn't understand one part. I can't say it, but it didn't make sence. Still, this is a good book, and if you can find a copy, see if you can read it!