ix241@sdcc6.UUCP (ix241) (11/02/84)
_Emergence_ by David R. Palmer I finally got a chance to find out what happened to Candida. She was introduced in a novella in Analog. There was a followup story almost a year later. David Palmer's novel has those two connected stories as the first two chapters of the novel. That is about 1/6 of the novel. It is very much worth buying. I bought it yesterday afternoon and finished it in one sitting. I will reread probably this weekend. It is an after-the-holocast-with-the-New-Man novel but very well done. Candida (Candy,of course) is a new person and survives. She is eleven. That's all the spoiler I will give. Palmer uses a type of shorthand prose that is quite short on articles, conjunctions and prepositions. It is understandable. Candida's narrative is funny and serious. READ IT! John Testa UCSD Chemistry sdcsvax!sdcc6!ix241
ishizaki@saturn.UUCP (Audrey Ishizaki) (11/05/84)
I, too, read _Emergence_ by David Palmer in both Analog and in the recently released novel form. I liked it, on the whole, but thought that the protagonist, Candy Smith-Foster, like Jean Auel's (_Clan of the Cave Bear_, _The Valley of Horses_) character Ayla, was a bit Too Remarkable. It's worth reading, but I felt the promise of the first chapter (which was presented as a novella in Analog) was not lived up to. Audrey Ishizaki HPlabs Palo Alto, Ca ...ucbvax!hplabs!ishizaki