![]() I enjoyed Burn Bright, not only because of the storyline but because the heroine grows. And one question everybody on Ixion asks sooner or later is: what happens when you get too old? Unable to stand it any more, Retra flees to Ixion herself, to find her brother. When Retra’s brother, Joel, runs away to Ixion, island of teenage pleasure, where young people party all night (there is no day there), Retra’s family is punished. That doesn’t mean she loves swimming but that she lives in a sealed enclave, one whose lifestyle would make the Puritans look like hippies. ![]() The heroine of Burn Bright, Retra, is a Seal. With her first young adult novel, Burn Bright (Random House Australia) she has entered my territory and it is very, very good. In the end, my YA novel got 60,000 words in and froze and Marianne became a well-known and highly respected author of, first cyberpunk, then space-based SF for adults. When we first met, at a writers’ workshop at Aussiecon 3, she had submitted 4000 words of adult cyberpunk and I had submitted the same amount of YA fantasy. ![]() ![]() Marianne De Pierres and I have a history. ![]()
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