[maytai]

Hi, I'm new here. I'm a fantasy junkie. My favorite authors are Raymond Feist, Mercedes Lackey, Melanie Rawn & Janny Wurts.

I read a book years ago. I can't remember the author or the title. It SEEMS as though there were brother & sister who lived in a village(?) and could read minds. no one else did. somehow someone from another community far more advanced (they lived underground) "heard" them (via the mind) and in their flying(?) cars, went to retrieve them. that's all I remember. does this sound familiar to anyone at all? thanks.

[Jon Shannow]

It sounds alot like The Chrysalids by John Wyndham I don't remember anything about people living underground exept some outcasts who lived in caves but most of your other points fit.

In a post nuclear war humans are stuggling back from extinction one of the problems they face is mutation and they have developed a very strick religion to police every one anyone who is not the write colour or shape is killed or sterilized the hero of the story slowly come to relise that no one else can read minds (ecept a few of his friends) so he is different and so a hated mutant..

[Lady Fox]

The book you are describing sounds a lot like Children of Morrow by H.M. Hoover. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world (I think) where some scientists have established a underground settlement and are trying to save some remnants of technology and culture. The brother and sister are children of some of the survivors of the war and are living in a quasi-fuedal village that is the only type of civilization left. However, they are somewhat different from the rest of the village people and are discovered by the scientists and rescued. Does this sound like the book you are referring to?

[Vitriol]

Sounds like the Crysalids (particually the 'mind contact' with Sealand, and the flying vehicle that rescues them at the end). Still, the advanced civilisation lives across the sea, not underground, so perhaps it is Children of Morrow as Ladyfox suggests (I haven't read this, so I can't say which is more likely).

[This message has been edited by Vitriol (edited May 24, 2002).]

[maytai]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU It's Children of Morrow, and again, thank you!

[Lady Fox]

No problem Maytai. I did a search on Amazon to refresh my memory about this book and found that it is somewhat hard to come by, so if you are searching for a copy you might want to hit the used book stores. There are some available at Amazon, but not many.