Journal Entry 1 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Friday, September 01, 2006

Publishers Weekly
Sure to enhance Tepper's growing reputation, this imaginative novel is set in man's distant future among a number of human cultures inhabiting a distant solar system. On the recently colonized agricultural world of Hobbs Land, the aborigines and their god have died, leaving a few temples and villages. The children of the matriarchal Settlement One, including teenagers Jeopardy Wilm and his cousin and sweetheart, Saturday, begin to act strangely; they restore an old temple and place a new god inside. As quarrelsomeness and strife disappear, clear thinking prevails and worship of the new god spreads to other settlements, the fanatic, patriarchal prophets of Voorstod on the planet Ahabar seek to impose their brutal, slave-owning society on the whole system. For propaganda, they try to lure back from Hobbs Land famous singer Maire Girat, Jeopardy's grandmother, who had fled Voorstod years before. 

Journal Entry 2 by karendawn from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Saturday, March 01, 2008

It's been a while since I've read a Tepper book, and it took me a good long while to get through this one. Not because there is anything wrong with Tepper but because her books are very dense. There's a lot to shift through and it's not a fast read. That being said, I didn't really care for the story or characters that much. But the ideas that were presented through the story really made me think a lot about religion especially but also quite appropriately the idea of the hero's journey (since that's what I'm teaching this semester) as presented through the character of Sam. So it was a worthwhile read for the thinking that it caused in me. 

Journal Entry 3 by karendawn at on Saturday, March 01, 2008

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Journal Entry 4 by elsi from Sanger, Texas USA on Saturday, March 08, 2008

Arrived today from Karen. I'm looking forward to reading this, as I've read almost everything else Tepper has written.