Capella's Golden Eyes

Year for Search
1980
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The novel begins with three teenagers experiencing conflict in a highly organized city with some on their life in a rural commune, which has elements of a flawed utopia from the point of view of the protagonist. Children grow up in a series of supervised dormitories doing farm work until they are twenty. The novel then follows the protagonist to a period of study in the city and his encounter with aliens who had also settled on the planet. The novel ends with contact with a dystopian Earth and no resolution of the issues involved with either Earth or the aliens.

Published Date

1980

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Place Published
London
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Full Text

1980 Evans, C[hristopher] D. (b. 1951). Capella’s Golden Eyes. London: Faber & Faber. MoU-St, PSt

The novel begins with three teenagers experiencing conflict in a highly organized city with some on their life in a rural commune, which has elements of a flawed utopia from the point of view of the protagonist. Children grow up in a series of supervised dormitories doing farm work until they are twenty. The novel then follows the protagonist to a period of study in the city and his encounter with aliens who had also settled on the planet. The novel ends with contact with a dystopian Earth and no resolution of the issues involved with either Earth or the aliens.

Author Note

Welsh author (b. 1951).

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