WATCHSTAR.
New York: Pocket Books, [1980]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Paperback original. The author's author's fourth book, a YA novel, first of a trilogy. "The heroines of the Watchstar trilogy ... live on a far future Earth inhabited by technologically primitive villagers who possess telepathic and telekinetic powers. Daiya, Lydee, and Anra question the conservative world views of their culture and seek to discover the secrets of their world and of the Comet Dwellers, the descendants of humans who long ago left Earth. The fate of the planet is in the hands of these young visionaries." - Thomas J. Morrissey, Watson and Schellinger (editors), Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, third edition, p. 690. [Reference: Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 402]. A fine copy, unread. (30353). Item #30353
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