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Barbary
Orphaned Barbary finds a new home on a space station but runs into difficulties trying to protect her pet cat Mickey.
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
1986
by Houghton Mifflin
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Being that Dreamsnake is one of my favorite books, I decided I'd better pick up a few other things by the same author. Sometimes I'm afraid to do that -- I loved the one book so much, what if that was the best thing? What if everything else by her is wretched? HAH. Not to worry, because this was a good, fun read. It's a quick read, and although juvenile fiction I didn't feel that it was "beneath" me in any way. Perhaps because I know me, and know that if I'd read this about the first time I'd re...more
Jan 11, 2010
Mary JL
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3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
For fans of Sf especially juvenile Sf
Recommended to Mary JL by:
Familiar with author
Shelves:
main-sf-fantasy
This a a short, quick easy to read juvenile by sf pro Vonda McINtyre.
It tells the story of Barbary, a foster child, who at age 12 is immigrating to a space station colony orbiting Earth.
Barbary and Heather the main charactes are well developed and likeable; the story is adequate with a nice ending. It suffers from being a bit too short, with not enough "content" for an adult.
However, those of you who have nieces or daughters who you are trying to turn on to Sf should pick this up if you can. The...more
It tells the story of Barbary, a foster child, who at age 12 is immigrating to a space station colony orbiting Earth.
Barbary and Heather the main charactes are well developed and likeable; the story is adequate with a nice ending. It suffers from being a bit too short, with not enough "content" for an adult.
However, those of you who have nieces or daughters who you are trying to turn on to Sf should pick this up if you can. The...more
Synopsis: An earthling child takes up with her new foster family on an orbital space station.
Thoughts: The whole time I was reading this book I was asking myself, "okay, so when does the action happen?" There are some concerns for Barbary's future, for her pet cat that she smuggles into space, for her foster-sister's health, etc. etc., but really the star of the book is the space station itself. Paragraph after paragraph are poured into the details of navigating its labyrinthine passages, switch...more
A fun juxtaposition between the domestic life of a young earth foster child being screwed around by Child Protection and the hard science style discovery of an alien ship by an outer colony space station.
OR The story where first contact is made by a cat.
Good fun and I liked it well enough. The obvious previous foster child trauma made me wince and it's obviously aimed at a younger audience, but for a book written in 1986 it's held up quite well I think.
OR The story where first contact is made by a cat.
Good fun and I liked it well enough. The obvious previous foster child trauma made me wince and it's obviously aimed at a younger audience, but for a book written in 1986 it's held up quite well I think.
What a fun read. Solid science, strong female characters, an optimistically realistic vision of a possible future, and a cat. All good reasons to pick this up & give it a read IMHO :-) THink it would be particularly wonderful for a YA audience with a comfort in matters scientific.
Found this on the shelf at the Maya Beach Hotel and really enjoyed it. Barbary, an orphan, is being sent to her mother's best friend to live on a space station. She smuggles her cat along with her, and the two of them end up playing an important part in humanity's first contact with aliens.
Type and Source of Book:
Ebook borrowed from the Ontario Library Service
Thoughts:
Silly cat.
Ebook borrowed from the Ontario Library Service
Thoughts:
Silly cat.
Cats in space. Definitely targeted to a younger audience but still enjoyable and a pretty quick read.
this was the first novel I ever read excepting Tolkien's the Hobbit. I had just turned five. I remember enjoying it immensely.
my sister and I have an obscure bet that I won't read this book before 12/19/2031.
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Vonda Neel McIntyre is a U.S. science fiction author. She is one of the first successful graduates of the Clarion Science fiction writers workshop. She attended the workshop in 1970. By 1973 she had won her first Nebula Award, for the novelette "Of Mist, and Grass and Sand." This later became part of the novel Dreamsnake, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The novelette and novel both conc...more
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