SOLVED. Girl on spaceship [s]

[Emily]

The main character is a teenage girl who has a disorder/is handicapped, and therefore she can't travel to a new planet. In this world, people have move from Earth and to another planet, everyone except the handicapped (?). But somehow she still manages to get on a shaceship. I only read the blurb of this book a long time ago, so I'm not really sure if everything I wrote is right, but if ANYTHING at all sounds familiar, please be so nice and link me to the book! :)

[bookel]

When did you read the blurb? First or second half of which decade? Or do you associate it with a specific year? Was it a new or older book?

[Emily]

I read the blurb a couple of months ago, and the book can't have been that old. It was written at least after 2005.

[Scott]

This was published in 1999 but might be it:
This Alien Shore

[Melanti]

The Rowan perhaps?

The Talents are a group of people that use their telekinetic powers to transport other people from place to place, but they can't use that method of transportation themselves.

Some editions talk about the inability to travel more than others... I know my edition from back in the '90's talked about it some.

[Serendi]

I hadn't thought about the Tower and the Hive series (where The Rowan is from). The Rowan is a telekinetic/telepath who uses generators to increase her reach, as do a bunch of others, and they ship stuff/people to planets on other stars, but they believe they can't shift themselves. (view spoiler)[It turns out they were all trained by an old woman with an inner ear disorder who convinced all her students they couldn't teleport themselves either; the Rowan does at one point put herself in a small spacecraft to get around the planet blocking the way. (hide spoiler)] The series started with a short story (romance theme) that I have in one of Anne McCaffrey's anthologies. It grew a lot.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

BOY, did it grow a lot. I remember reading that collection of short stories too Serendi. I think it might have been in To ride Pegasus.

[Serendi]

I just dug it out: it's in Get Off the Unicorn. "Lady in the Tower", copyright 1959, and in the intro McCaffrey calls it "the story I prefer to acknowledge as my first." Impressive debut!

Which may or may not have anything to do with the OP's quest....

[Ann aka Iftcan]

Anne may "say" that she prefers to acknowledge that as her first, but her "real" first (or at least her first sale) was Restoree. I was at one of the last Dragoncons that Anne attended, and she mentioned it in kind of a throw away way, that that "little piece of nothing" was her first published work, even if no one there had probably heard of it. (Er, I not only had heard of it, I was desperately clutching my first edition copy to my chest since I wanted it autographed.) I also told her that she was my second favourite author. She wanted to know who my favourite was, and I told her Andre Norton, and she said, "Ok, I don't mind being second to her"

Again, nothing to do with the OP, but when we are talking about the greats. . .

[Serendi]

The short story was her first sale. Restoree was her first novel sale, 1967 apparently. Liked it, thought I still had it but if so it's in hiding. And it's annoying when authors diss their perfectly reasonable early work. Grump.

[Ann aka Iftcan]

I know what you mean Serendi. The early work is STILL good, even if you've gotten better as the years roll along. And I actually really LIKED that story. A kind of "plain Jane" gets to be the star of the show. That didn't happen real often in books of that time period. Either the female lead was beautiful, intelligent, rich, etc. AND she wanted to find her Prince Charming, but she didn't actually Do a lot. And, as the "Plain Jane" of my family, I liked having a heroine that I could look up to.

[Emily]

I don't think that's it!

[Valerie]

Sounds kind of like Earth Girl to me except about the part where she gets in a spaceship. There is a spaceship though. Everything else sounds pretty similar. The fact that she is "handicapped" and that people can portal to different worlds except the handicapped.

[Emily]

That's the one! Thanks! :)

[Valerie]

You're welcome.