Growing Up Weightless
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| Book: | Growing Up Weightless |
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| Author: | John M. Ford |
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| Publisher: | Bantam Dell Pub Group |
Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey to Farside. Their passage into the expanse of perpetual night will change them in ways they never could have predicted… and bring Matt to the destiny he has yearned for.
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Reviews
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It’s not that Matt Ronay, the protagonist of this novel, is weightless; it’s just that he lives on the Moon, and he has the ability to flow gracefully through the low gravity. There’s a figurative weightless to the story as well, that of Ronay’s life and decisions he faces growing up as an adolescent in lunar society. Ronay, a brilliant youth, takes a trip to distant city, acts in theater and dreams of flight to far-off worlds. His father, a leader in lunar politics, doesn’t always understand, though he may have had some of the same yearnings as his son. This imaginative novel won the 1994 Philip K. Dick Award.
