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In a future world whose people are clustered in domed cities, fifteen-year-old Ruth, who possesses great extrasensory powers and who has received troubling messages in her dreams from another center of civilization, accompanies a group to search for the source of the messages.Tags
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I read the first book in this series, Devil On My Back, years ago and I was blown away by it. it was a library book in high school and it stuck in my mind for years until a couple of years back when I bought a paperback off eBay. I was also delighted to learn of the sequel, so I got that book too.
Boy howdy, I was all keyed up to enjoy this book and... um. I think this book could have stood out well on its own, with all references/ties to Arc One cut out. Devil On My Back plays very little into this, with the main focus on an entire cast of different characters. Again, this would have worked nicely as a stand-alone story and I did enjoy some parts of it and the idea of the Web.
I found the meshing of the two stories to feel somewhat show more awkward/forced, and underwhelming. show less
Boy howdy, I was all keyed up to enjoy this book and... um. I think this book could have stood out well on its own, with all references/ties to Arc One cut out. Devil On My Back plays very little into this, with the main focus on an entire cast of different characters. Again, this would have worked nicely as a stand-alone story and I did enjoy some parts of it and the idea of the Web.
I found the meshing of the two stories to feel somewhat show more awkward/forced, and underwhelming. show less
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Author Information
39+ Works 2,852 Members
Monica Hughes was born in Liverpool, England on November 3, 1925. Before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service, she lived in Egypt as a child and went to school in Scotland. During World War II, she worked on breaking German codes. In 1952, she immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began working at Ottawa's National Research Council. She show more started writing survival stories and science fiction novels for young adults. Her works include the Isis trilogy and Hunter in the Dark. She won numerous awards including the Phoenix Award for literary merit. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. She died from a stroke on March 7, 2003 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Original title
- The Dream Catcher
- Original publication date
- 1986
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .H87364 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 81
- Popularity
- 390,639
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.97)
- Languages
- Danish, English, Finnish, Spanish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 10
