Watchstar

1984 Sargent, Pamela (b. 1948). Watchstar. New York: Pocket Books. PSt

First volume in a young adult trilogy followed by her Eye of the Comet. New York: Harper & Row, 1984; and Homesmind. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. This volume takes place in a future that has rejected technology or, to their way of thinking, outgrown it. People live in small villages, communicate only by telepathy, are telekinetic, and can fly. Those born without these abilities are killed. Each person must go through an individual rite of passage, and the protagonist is going through hers when she meets a boy who has descended to Earth from a comet in which he lives. He is from the without telepathic powers who were people left behind and fled Earth to live on comets in space. Eye of the Comet focuses on a young woman who is set the task by Homesmind, a cybernetic mind, of reconciling the two societies. Homesmind concludes with the conflict between the two worldviews and its impact on the various protagonists. Female author.