Why isn Journey Between Worlds better known?
Because it was placed on the children’s science fiction shelf in libraries, when as someone once said to me, no science fiction enthusiast wants to read about a girl who doesn’t want to go to Mars! It was meant to go on the Young Adult romance shelf, and if any librarians are reading this, I wish you would go and move it there. The original edition of Journey is now outdated in minor ways that I fixed in the 2006 hardcover edition; details needed altering because of what has been learned about Mars; moreover, it contained assumptions and phrasing acceptable 30 years ago that now strike even me as sexist. Also, it appeals to a somewhat different audience than my other novels since it contains no element of fantasy or the paranormal, nor does it have an interstellar setting. However, the new edition received quite a bit of notice from romance reviewers (although because the publisher, over my protests, nevertheless marketed the paperback edition only as science fiction, it was rarely dis
