Journey Between Worlds
by Sylvia Engdahl (Goodreads author!)
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Reviewed by Lynn Crow for TeensReadToo.com
Melinda doesn't want to go to Mars. Why leave Earth when everything humans are meant to enjoy is there? But when her father, whom she's only seen sporadically over the last ten years, asks her to join him on a business trip to one of the Mars colonies after she graduates from high school, she can't bring herself to refuse him. Little does she know her months on Mars will change the way she thinks about life, love, and humanity.
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Melinda doesn't want to go to Mars. Why leave Earth when everything humans are meant to enjoy is there? But when her father, whom she's only seen sporadically over the last ten years, asks her to join him on a business trip to one of the Mars colonies after she graduates from high school, she can't bring herself to refuse him. Little does she know her months on Mars will change the way she thinks about life, love, and humanity.
With JOURNEY BETWE...more
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Read in September, 2007
This takes place in a future where Earth has started colonizing Mars. It's still experimental, so most people on Earth don't ever expect, or want, to travel to Mars, and future funding is tenuous. Melinda has always planned to marry her high school boyfriend and live on the Oregon coast. But her father is going to Mars for several months, and he wants her to go with him, so she puts her plans on hold.
There have been people on Mars long enough that children born to the first homesteaders are ...more
There have been people on Mars long enough that children born to the first homesteaders are ...more
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I should read the updated version of this book. I hope that some of the dated bits have been removed. This book is put in science-fiction but it's also "space romance." The trip between Earth and Mars takes 10 months in the book, and Engdahl is quite convincing (to me) that the trip to Mars would be a one way trip for most.
1/1/08: I just reread this book last night, and in the book it actually took 10 weeks to get from Earth to Mars. I looked up and told my husband, "Ten weeks...more
1/1/08: I just reread this book last night, and in the book it actually took 10 weeks to get from Earth to Mars. I looked up and told my husband, "Ten weeks...more
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This is a new, revised edition of a novel I first published in 1970. The original edition has some wording and details that are now outdated and would be distracting to today's readers, so only this one should be read.
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