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Chen Xi _erena_i_hen — "Andra" was originally published in 1971, and adapted as an 8 part TV series in Australia in 1976. The book was apparently intended as mainstream SF, not YA SF, though I suspect for today's readers its ideal audience would be early teens. The voice of the story is almost naive, and the science shaky, with several side-trips into what might be classed as magic realism. I read the book several times when I was a teen, and remembered it as a bittersweet tale, engrossing without being a book that one loves absolutely. On an adult reading, it is a very strange tale. A young, below-average intelligence woman receives a head injury in a post-nuclear world where life is rigidly controlled, stratified by IQ, homogenised so that everyone is blue-eyed, blonde-haired, and oh so obedient. At 60, all but the high tier IQ's are euthanised, as are all people with any disability, including blindness. The highest of high IQ's have their brains transplanted into younger bodies, and there is at least one character who is 300 years old. All this is accepted with little sign of unrest, as the whole of society is rigidly brainwashed from birth, and anyone who shows too much resistance is mind-wiped into compliance. Andra, the region of her sight damaged, becomes the subject of an experimental operation - a slice of a brain in storage is spliced into hers - and if the operation does not succeed in restoring her sight she will die even if she survives. The section of brain which is transplanted is from a high-IQ boy who died in 1987 (before the nuclear war and a rather unlikely 2000 years before). (view spoiler) I enjoyed re-reading this book, but doubt I would have liked it originally if I hadn't been in my early teens when I first read it. Andra comes across as child-like and (at least socially) idiotic, for all her charm. It's a quixotic, somewhat illogical story about the desire for freedom and invokes a piquant sense of longing, and loss. But I doubt it would work at all for today's audience.

Kk Jean jeankk — How do you justify Mitchell's fall from grace? I haven't read Thousand Autumns yet, but who writes _two_ good novels then starts to suck? You write one novel then crash, okay, plenty of people have done that. A bunch? Yeah, plenty of people sell out. Did John Galt show up and go hey David Mitchell, "you're really close to writing a novel in the 21st century that is actually good, it will change the well established fact that books are going to be terrible now--time to shrug," and David Mitchell was like hey this other David Mitchell guy is funny he can carry this name like Atlas carries the planet. Seriously though. This guy blew his political capital, blew his mandate, faster than I can believe. I'll give Thousand Autumns a shot but this was really offensively bad. As Andrew would say, bilDUNGsroman indeed.