ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) (12/17/85)
I'm looking for the title of a book I read years ago back in the Pasadena public library (ah, the good ol'days); was about a group of kids living in a computer-run community underground and their discovery of people living on the surface. All the underground people were bald (I think the surface dwellers still had head hair), transportation was similar to slidewalks. I particularly recall the protagonist of the story dialing up a drink at supper by requesting "Hot, sweet, and red." Send mail please. Thanks, Ellen -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?" "I read it in a book," said Alice. - - - - - - - - - - - - - tektronix!reed!ellen
josh@ism70.UUCP (12/20/85)
The name of that was The City Underground, but the authors name slipped from my memory years back...I read the book when I was nine....and I actually went back to the Public Library on Montana Ave. in Santa Monica to find it, but alas! it was gone. If anyone knows where it can be found, I'd like t,o reread it out of sheer curiosity. The main character was a teenage boy and he meets a girl with red hair. I first read a portion of the story out of my English textbook when I was in elementary school, and that with an Arthur C. Clarke story was what I guess first hooked me on sci-fi. I do remember that title, and the author was female, of that I'm about 99% sure about. Hope this is of help to you....
jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa (12/22/85)
From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa The book that Ms. Eades is looking for, about an underground society that discovers some surface dwellers, might possibly be either _Half_Past_Human_ or _The_Godwhale_, both by T. J. Bass. There are a number of similarities between these books and what she describes; the surface people have hair and the undergrounders are bald; the undergrounders, while not children, are child-sized; and the ordering of food by temperature, flavor, and color. However, I would definitely not classify these as children's books. There is a lot of detailed and sometimes nauseating discussion of physiology, some explicit sex, and some fairly heavy philosophy. Not easy reading, but quite good if you can get into it. If Ellen could get into it when she was a kid, she must have been quite a kid! --- Jef