The YA book with cloned girls named Anna was called, I believe, Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames, and socked me hard in the 5th grade. See Amazon:
Good god, I'd entirely forgotten this book! Now I want to read it again.
There was a lot of talk in SF circles starting about 12 years or so ago about the "disappearance of the mid-list" and about how it was increasingly harder for even established writers like Spider Robinson to get books published.
Almost all of his stuff was out of print for awhile...back when I started reading him adn couldn't find any of it. And of course, once I'd managed to amass a collection after years of haunting used bookstores, THEN they reprinted all of it. (And I agree with those who think he went downhill)
so there is a bunch of Sutcliff at the library -- which is a good one to start with?
Did anyone else turn into a 10 year old while reading the previous discussion of Moorcock love?
Just me then.
Beth, there's no particular order to the Sutcliffs. I'd start with the stuff written earlier, though: she started writing for younger and younger readers towards the end of her life.
If you can, Beth, you might start with The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch and The Lantern Bearers, in that order. The books are related and certainly among the best. Others you could start with are Dawn Wind and The Mark of the Horse Lord.
Me, Wolfram, cause I don't know who that is...might as well be Seymour Butts.
I love Jilli's whitefonted idea a few posts back. I'm so curious to know Snape's whole story.
I don't think I've ever posted in this thread, but I'm hoping y'all can help me remember the title of some books I read as a kid. It was a story (or maybe a short series) about a brother and sister with some sort of mental powers. They were on their own, running away from someone, and were looking for their parents or their people. I think the title maybe had "Mountains" in it and it might have been made into a kids movie. I know this is really vague, but I can't remember any more except that I loved the story.
escape to witch mountain by Alexander Key
and there was an awful Disney movie "based" on the book "Escape to Witch Mountain." Tony and Tia, the psychic twins.
I never read the book and remember loving the movie. Something about the children's rooms they are given by the evil man has stayed with me as a vague memory and visual trigger. I should probably re-watch to figure it out.
