This has been recommended by many teens across the country. I hadn't read any of the recs, so I was surprised to find that it was a thriller with a science fiction setting. While the story was fine, definitely a European style of storytelling, I was disappointed. I thought science fiction might have fiinally landed with the current generation of teens and to find out that science was just the stage, well, I am still waiting for science fiction to make a big splash.
Harstad certainly had the right storyline to interest teens. So, I wonder if he had told it a different way would it have been popular? He could have explored deeper characters each with a love of science in some way. Instead he just killed off characters and created suspense.
What is the science fiction that will capture this generation the way space travel and robots dragged the minds of so many in the 1970s?
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