Orbital Resonance (Meme Wars) - Softcover

Barnes, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812532384 ISBN 13: 9780812532388

Publisher: Tor Books, 1992

Synopsis

Melpomene Murray's concerns are those of any teenager: homework, friends, dates. But Melpomene lives on the Flying Dutchman, an asteroid colony located thousands of miles from an Earth almost destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She and her spaceborn classmates are humanity's last hope, and Mel's just starting to realize how heavy a responsibility that is. Her parents and teachers have trained her from birth to lead mankind into the future.

What they never realized is that Melpomene might have plans of her own...

About this title

About the Author:

John Barnes is the award-winning author of Orbital Romance, A Million Open Doors, Mother of Storms, Earth Made of Glass, The Merchants of Souls, Candle, and many other novels. With Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, he wrote the novels Encounter with Tiber and The Return. He lives in Colorado.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Worthy whack at a near-future coming-of-age novel, set aboard an asteroid shuttling between Earth and Mars in the year 2025; from the author of Sin of Origin (1988) and The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky (1986). Melpomene Murray, 13, lives within the hollowed-out, cargo- carrying asteroid Flying Dutchman and studies hard for her upcoming Full Adulthood exams. Like her classmates, she cares little that the earth, what with climatic changes, a super-AIDS epidemic, and economic collapse, is in desperate trouble; her concerns are more prosaic--school, games, friends, boys. Only gradually does Melpomene realize, from hints dropped by her teachers and her psychologist father, that she and her classmates have been psychologically manipulated from birth to want to help save the human race. Problem is, her father--one of the masterminds behind the plan--admits that the teenagers have already surpassed their conditioning to develop their own uniquely caring and cooperative community. So, the new plan is simply to stand back, allowing sane, healthy, precocious Melpomene and her fellows to grow into their novel civilization and discover their own roles within it. Involving, well-balanced YA fare, with just enough complexity and insight to attract a wider audience. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0812532384
• ISBN 13: 9780812532388
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 245