SOLVED. Science fiction book about mankind living in floating bubbled cities and a girl who ends up with a native american tribe in the land below [s]

[Mateo]

I'd be very thankful if you could help me with this one :)

It was a book I remember reading around 5-7 years ago, but it's probably way older. It think it was written by two authors, not only one, but I'm not sure aboute that.

The genre was science fiction, a future where humanity had polluted so much the land and the air that the only way to survive was creating floating cities surrounded by a protective bubble, there was only like 5 of them on the whole world. The rest of humanity was presumed dead.
The story takes places many hundred of years after that, it starts in one of the cities where there is a girl whose father is a cientific/inventor/something like that. An interesting detail is that all the people from the city have names that seem to be vulgar or cientific names of plants/flowers. I THINK (not sure) the life in the city was awful because there was a controlling... supercomputer? that kept everyone really controlled and scared of the dangers of the outside pollution.
Thing is, somehow the girl ends up getting out of the city (escaping? by accident?) and to her surprise she discovers the outside air is breathable and the world has been healing itself during all these centuries.
Furthermore she ends up with a tribe of native americans who live like in the old days in this world, änd she lives with them.

(view spoiler)[ She eventually falls in love with one of them, the whole tribe also has to travel through dangerous parts, somehow because of a prophecy or something, and they end up going to the girl's bubble city, where they proceed to "liberate" the people from their fear and they all get off the city to enjoy and take care of the healed world. (hide spoiler)]

Thanks a lot in advance!!

[Bobbi]

Sounds like Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi, except the cities didn't float.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Under the Never Sky for the click that Bobbi suggested

[Jaye]

The Floating Islands

This is on my to read pile, so I don't know much about it.
But the picture fits. It seems to be about 2 cousins, one of which is a girl.
Thought I'd link it with the floating theme, just in case.

[Mateo]

Nope, it's not any of those, thanks for trying though :)
The cities were completely isolated from the outside out of fear of the polluted air, so they looked like bubbles and I think they actually called them "bubble-cities" or something among those lines. There were like only 5 on the world, 1 or 2 on North America, others in Europe, Asia, etc.

The story starts in the floating city above what used to be North America, soon the girl ends up in the outside world, she meets the Native American people and interacts with them (some fear her, some hate her, most are ok with her), (view spoiler)[ the Native guy that falls for her was actually compromised with another girl, who dies tragically (hide spoiler)].

The story follows the girl and her interactions and travel with the tribe, and at the same time it follows her father, the cientist from the bubble-city (I don't remember very much the bits about him, but I think that he tries to make the people react somehow, because everyone is like, dunno, the humans from the movie Up xD).

[Pamela]

Parts of your description sound somewhat like Marooned in Real Time, by Vernor Vinge.

[Mateo]

Nope, thanks though.

Just in case anyone's wondering, it wasn't part of a saga or series, or at least it didn't say anywhere it was. It was a standalone book, I'm not 100% sure but I think it was written by two authors, and its cover was light green and/or gray (in the Spanish edition in which I read it, so I guess that doesn't help at all). The authors had names in English and I think they were from the US (it also makes sense taking into account that's where the action happens and that there is a tribe of Native Americans portrayed as the "heroes"/"liberators".

I'm also sure I'm not getting confused and mixing two plots from different books or something into one, I just can't... can't remember the name of the book at all, but if I could remember the name of the characters...
The Native American all had names like Three Arrows, Wolf Claw, Blind Owl, etc, so I don't have hopes of remember those. But the people from the bubble-city, particularly the girl and her father, had names that were so weird that I'm sure if I could remember one of them I could find the book via Google pretty easily... The father was named something like Chrysanthemum (but that wasn't it, I just remember it was something like a cientific name of a flower, and it was long. The daughter was the same, but it was short and more femenine).

Sorry for my bad english and thank you very much for all your efforts helping me :)

[Cheryl]

Your communication is wonderful.

Your description sounded familiar, so I used the 'search discussion posts' in this group for 'bubble' and also for 'dome' and got lots of results. Maybe you'd like to look through those and see if any of those queries, or the suggestions generated for them, sound familiar to you.

[Ayshe]

I found a review for this book: The Girl Who Slipped Through Time
It doesn't sound like a complete match, but the girl's name is Paramecia?

[Mateo]

Ayshe: Thanks, but that's not it.
Cheryl: Thank you for your words. I have been using during these days the function you suggested, but I have found nothing yet.

There's the possibility that the bubbled cities weren't floating per se, but instead atop some king of pillars or structure, I don't know... :(

[Shanna_redwind]

I haven't read it so I'm not sure if it fits or not, but Mother Grimm has a city under a bubble in it.

[Crystal]

I think I've read this. I wish I could remember more of it, the flower names sound so very familiar. There was a kind of conspiracy to keep the bubble civilization from learning about the surface being fine to live on. And there was a group who knew and took trips to the surface for research. And also condemned people to the surface to be rid of them. I could be thinking of a different book, as I remember that the girl was maybe one of the natives who was smuggled into the bubble cities and has to carefully mind her thoughts and actions. I will definitely be watching this thread!!! I'll try and remember more of it as well.

-edit
sorry, I was actually thinking of Brave New World

doubt that's the one you're talking about. definitely makes me want to read it again tho lol

[Mateo]

It's neither of those (I have actually read Brave New World :) ) but thank you anyway. I still don't give up on finding this! haha

[Mateo]

I've just been looking for months on Google and other pages I've come across, using and combining tags like dystopia, science fiction, native american, natives, tribe, supercomputer, pollution, sealed city/ies, floating city/ies, dome city/ies, but to no avail =(
Maybe it was such an unknown book that there is no trace of it on the Internet?

[Kris]

You might be interested in this list of flying/floating cities:
http://www.readinasinglesitting.com/b...

[Mateo]

Thanks for the link! I checked the list but the book I search isn't there. I think it's older than the Internet, but maybe it's way older than I thought.

[Kris]

Ah, nothing escapes the Internet. :)

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Kris, I beg to differ. Plenty of things have escaped the internet... SO FAR.

We're working on it. ;)

[Kagama-the Literaturevixen]

Justanotherbiblophile wrote: "Kris, I beg to differ. Plenty of things have escaped the internet... SO FAR.

We're working on it. ;)"

ALL MUST BECOME PART OF THE INTERNET

rofl

[Deborah]

Bump!

I'm dying to know what the name of this book is.

[Mateo]

Hey! Today I somehow managed to remember two names from characters of the book! (thank god for that drowzy limbo of breakfast time in a weekend day, when your brain goes to unexpected directions).
The father of the protagonist girl, the scientist, was named Cyclamen.
There was also a secondary character from the city named Rhododendron. He had a little antagonistic role during the first half of the book, if I remember correctly. Basically he represented the view of "We should never get out of the city, the outside world is dangerous and deadly".

Once I remembered that, I checked them on the Internet. Remember how I told you the city characters of this book had names of flowers? Well, it seems they actually had names of plant genera.

So now I'm taking a look at all these names one by one: http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/-/-/
I'm confindent that if I see the name of the main character, I'll recognize it :)

[Mateo]

I think I got the name of the main girl guys, I'm almost sure she was named Prímula in my Spanish edition (which is Primrose in English), and was abbreviated almost all the time to Prim anyways.

Now I just hope that putting words like "sci fi", "book", "prim", "primrose", "cyclamen", "pollution", "native american" in Google will eventually lead me somewhere haha

[Sally]

Have you tried doing a tag mash on Library Thing? I've had good luck with that. I think you're going to get a flood of Hunger Games results with the name Prim haha. I hope this is found though:)

[Ayshe]

I searched in Spanish and found this: Cheyenes 6112
Now, I don't know much Spanish, but some things (Google translation) seem to match: "Reseda y su padre Ciclamen", for example?

[Mateo]

YESSSS, thank you so much! :D

[Ayshe]

I'm so glad :) From my experience posting here trigger some memories and names especially are useful.
I believe you now have to change the topic title and the thread's folder to the proper solved one.