Enchantress from the Stars

When I was a young teen I found this book in the early 70s, in the shipboard library on the USS Woodrow Wilson. I was utterly enthralled, and saved up until I could buy my own copy -- my very first hardback fiction purchase! I still have that volume, which introduced me to SF and probably got me whe......more

"Your feelings for a person who has come to mean something to you colors all your memories, so that you can't describe them effectively." —Elana, "Enchantress from the Stars", PP. 68-69 "If we don't approach this with warmth and compassion and faith in these people as human beings, we haven't a chan......more

I first read this book when I was in the sixth grade, and it changed my life. Not only was this the first science fiction story I'd ever read, it was my introduction to the idea that where you come from shapes how you see and interpret the world. The story is presented as an intersection of fairy tal......more

I really enjoyed this YA sci-fi book. It is definitely character driven, but the science parts were good too. It was actually more like anthropology, I’d say—Elena is a young woman on her first mission. She is trying to protect a youngling world (less developed) from colonization by a space-faring p......more