This Star Shall Abide
| Title | This Star Shall Abide |
| Year for Search | 1972 |
| Authors | Engdahl, Sylvia [Louise](b. 1933) |
| Date Published | 1972 |
| Publisher | Atheneum |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Young adult highly structured, religious, authoritarian dystopia which turns out to be better than it initially seems. The society is led by Scholars, who keep knowledge to themselves, in the middle are the Technicians, who keep the machines running that make the planet inhabitable, and at the bottom are the villagers, who work the land. See also 1973 and 1981 Engdahl. |
| Additional Publishers | U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. Rev. in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 15-215 together with 1973 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21) and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). |
| Title Note | U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. |
| Illustration | Illus. Richard Cuffari |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-C, NLS, O, Public |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1933). |
| Full Text | 1972 Engdahl, Sylvia Louise (b. 1933). This Star Shall Abide. Illus. Richard Cuffari. New York: Atheneum. U.K. ed. as Heritage of the Star. London: Victor Gollancz, 1973. Rev. in Children of the Star (Atlanta, GA: Meisha Merlin, 2000), 15-215 together with 1973 and 1981 Engdahl, with an “Afterword” to the Collection (719-21) and “Sylvia Engdahl Biography” ([723-24]). MoU-C, NLS, O, Public Young adult highly structured, religious, authoritarian dystopia which turns out to be better than it initially seems. The society is led by Scholars, who keep knowledge to themselves, in the middle are the Technicians, who keep the machines running that make the planet inhabitable, and at the bottom are the villagers, who work the land. See also 1973 and 1981 Engdahl. Female author. |
