I have often had this book recommended to me as a small classic of YA sf in the subcategories of post-apocalyptic, psychic kids, and Australian. It was written in 1987, when there wasn't quite such a glut of psychic kid and post-apocalyptic YA as accumulated later on. But it was still unimpressive
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But one of the problems with the book is that she's way too powerful to be so downtrodden.
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That's what I figured. In fairness to Carmody, I think it's a fairly common problem to give characters superpowers without really thinking about all the consequences, particularly in superhero comics (anyone else remember Molecule Man in Secret Wars?). It's still sloppy.
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---L.
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