The Lotus Caves

Paperback | 1 February 1972

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When Marty and Steve broke out of the moon Bubble, stole a crawler and went joy-riding beyond the legal limits, they knew they were in for trouble. But then the crawler crashed through the surface of the moon into an unknown and eerie world and they found themselves in a lot of trouble.

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Fantastic! Fleeing the claustrophobic artificiality of the Moon Bubble, fourteen-year-olds Marty and Steve illegally reconnoiter-the long-abandoned First Station and, following a clue in the journal of "never recovered" Andrew Thurgood, plunge their mechanical crawler into a fragrant, fertile warren of caves. Where the enveloping moss and branches, the moving, metamorphosizing leaves and under-growth are all part of one gigantic sentient Plant which has also provided, for the surviving Thurgood, a lush earth-like orchard and an orchestra tree programmed to play his favorite (now seventy-year-old) tunes. And the Plant will pamper them until, like the Odyssey's lotus-eaters, they'll relinquish all thoughts of escape. Marty's fight against euphoria, which involves arousing the lethargic, Plant-worshipping Thurgood, is quickly told - more quickly than the Lunarians-at-school episode at the beginning. Altogether it's far from the inexorable rigor of The White Mountains. . . "Whose dream is it?" the boys wonder at one point. "The one who's writting the book." (Kirkus Reviews)

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