Sylvia Engdahl

• Apr-2022
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(This book is known in the UK as Heritage of the Star)Noren can see that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and Machines. It's wrong that only those few...

• Jun-2021
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Ardith Moran is elated by the prospect of contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, elated enough to stake her life on her conviction that they exist after the exploratory expedition's leaders turn back. The last thing she expects is to fall in lo...

• Jul-2016
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Book One: Stewards of the Flame
When burned-out starship captain Jesse Sanders is seized by a dictatorial medical regime and detained on the colony planet Undine, he has no idea that he is about to be plunged into a bewildering new life that will ...

• Jul-2016
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Book One: Defender of the Flame
Starship pilot Terry Radnor is elated to be among those chosen to defend the secret colony Maclairn against enemies who pose a threat to the spread of paranormal human mind powers. He commits himself wholly to the g...

• Oct-2014
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Starship captain Terry Steward, born Terry Radnor, is committed to spreading acceptance of psi powers and other advanced mind capabilities throughout the worlds of humankind. A strange turn of fate has enabled him to overcome terrorists who would hav...

• Apr-2013
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The books in this trilogy have been retitled to make plain that they are a separate and quite different story from Sylvia Engdahl's other novels with Flame in their titles, set centuries later, which can be read independently.Book One: PASSAGE TO DES...

• Apr-2013
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Starship pilot Terry Radnor is elated to be among those chosen to defend the secret colony Maclairn against enemies who pose a threat to the spread of paranormal human mind powers. He commits himself wholly to the goal of that world, not guessing how...

• Nov-2011
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This anthology of stories about the future, edited by Sylvia Engdahl, is intended for teens who don't ordinarily read science fiction rather than for SF fans, and is not meant to be an introduction to that genre. It focuses on the timeless aspects of...

• Sep-2009
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Three hundred people in a starship low on life support -- they must land fast, or they'll run out of air. Captain Jesse Sanders is their only pilot. How can he choose where to locate their colony with no chance to explore the raw new world? How can h...

• Sep-2007
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Crime is considered illness, untreated illness is crime; ambulance crews are the only police. Dead bodies stay on "life support" forever. Can anyone gain freedom?When burned-out starship captain Jesse Sanders is seized by a dictatorial medical regime...

• May-2006
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Eighteen-year-old Melinda Ashley never wanted to go to Mars. she had her life all planned out--marry ross and become a teacher. but when her estranged father convinces her to take an interplanetary vacation, she finds herself tempted to leave behind ...

• Mar-1981
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Noren has found faith in the Prophecy's fulfillment in the face of overwhelming odds. But the more he learns of the grim truth about his people's situation, the less possible it seems that their world can be changed. It will take more drastic steps t...

• 1973
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Once Noren gains admission to the mysterious City where technology is hidden, he is convinced that metal and Machines can be made available to everyone and that this will end the rule of the Scholars. But he soon learns that it's not as simple as he ...

• 1972
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(This book is known in the UK as Heritage of the Star.)Children of the Star trilogy, Book One. Noren can see that his world is not as it should be--it is wrong that only the Scholars, and their representatives the Technicians, can use metal tools and...

• 1971
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THE FATE OF TORIS RESTS IN ELANA'S HANDS.... Elana, newly graduated from the Federation Anthropological Service Academy, is sent immediately into danger on the planet Toris -- a Youngling world poised on the brink of nuclear war. She is ordered to me...

• Feb-1970
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Elana, a member of an interstellar civilization on a mission to a medieval planet, becomes the key to a dangerous plan to turn back an invasion. How can she help the Andrecians, who still believe in magic and superstition, without revealing her own a...