Title: "Coming of Age" story used as prequel
Product review: My children are aged 7-11, still to young to have discovered the wonders of science fiction. I am older, and am both a physicist, and an adherent of Gene Roddenberry's Prime Directive for dealing with alien cultures. Because of my background, I was predisposed to look for certain elements as I read the story to my kids. Instead, I was treated to a functional family operating in a completely disfunctional world. Laurie's father and his grandmother were unpredictably delightful in their realization of the situation and in their absurd actions. Minor characters such as the pilot, the policeman's wife, the member of the clergy, and the station policeman had much to say about today's society. The last third of the book was less exciting than their discovery of the Tripods or their first interactions with the Trippies, but may have been logically required as a prequel to the Trilogy.
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