- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Firebird; Reissue edition (4 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0142500372
- ISBN-13: 978-0142500378
- Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.1 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,276,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Three civilizations from different planets in widely varying stages of development clash in what could be either a mutually disastrous or beneficial encounter.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Do fairy tales have a grain of truth? Enchantress from the Stars examines this question with a thrilling adventure about the meeting of three different cultures. In the book, Elana, the heroine must try to save one race of people from being colonised by another without revealing that she is in fact from an evolutionally superior race of people. It is a great read for all ages, but will particularly appeal to year 7 and above.
It is the type of book that stays with you after you finish reading. You find yourself wondering all sorts of questions about colonisation, space travel, and the meaning of progress. Is magic real or simply something that we do not yet understand?
If you like Diane Wynne Jones, Philip Pullman's Dark Materials or Wiliam Nicholson's The Wind on Fire books, you will like this book. If you like magic, space travel, the thought of other civilisations beyond Earth, then you will like this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was expecting to read some kind of Star Wars but I was surprised. Begin with the idea based from the much-talked-about alien, Ms. Engdahl turned it into a concept that what if the ancient things, such as magic, dragon, wizards, witch, beyond our capability to understand, was things from another planet, another world, with civilization higher than ours?
This book really made me think and even helped me in someway to add to my understanding about human, life and alien. A deep thoughtful science fiction story about human civilization evolution.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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As a child I read Sylvia Engdahl's "Heritage of the Star" (published as "The Star Shall Abide" in the USA). This was one of my most memorable reads ever, and earlier this year I was glad to find her sequels to the books and to read them through. I also discovered this nook which received some awards and was republished in 2001.
Having read the other books earlier this year, it was quite clear that this story exists in the same world as the others. It is in no way a sequel to "Heritage of the Star", but the galactic anthropological service is a key theme in the last book of that trilogy. The themes and ideas are all very similar.
The idea of a clash of civilisations at different stages of development is an intelligent and interesting one, and this book explores those themes well. The author explicitly states that the book is not allegorical for our times, but readers will see similarities with the story of "avatar" and thus with the clash of civilisations when Europeans came to the Americas (particularly the USA).
There are a few problems with this book though in my opinion. One is that having so recently read the other trilogy by this author, I was surprised and perhaps a little disappointed that it did not have more originality in setting. Add to this the galactic federation, and the multiple humanoid looking races, and this is a story that appears to be a product of the Star Trek age in which it was conceived. But that does not really detract from the ideas conveyed or the quality of the story.
Having read the other books earlier this year, it was quite clear that this story exists in the same world as the others. It is in no way a sequel to "Heritage of the Star", but the galactic anthropological service is a key theme in the last book of that trilogy. The themes and ideas are all very similar.
The idea of a clash of civilisations at different stages of development is an intelligent and interesting one, and this book explores those themes well. The author explicitly states that the book is not allegorical for our times, but readers will see similarities with the story of "avatar" and thus with the clash of civilisations when Europeans came to the Americas (particularly the USA).
There are a few problems with this book though in my opinion. One is that having so recently read the other trilogy by this author, I was surprised and perhaps a little disappointed that it did not have more originality in setting. Add to this the galactic federation, and the multiple humanoid looking races, and this is a story that appears to be a product of the Star Trek age in which it was conceived. But that does not really detract from the ideas conveyed or the quality of the story.
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