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From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa
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Subject: Re: Title Wanted - Kids' Book
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Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 06:37:42 EST
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From: jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa

The book that Ms. Eades is looking for, about an underground society
that discovers some surface dwellers, might possibly be either
_Half_Past_Human_ or _The_Godwhale_, both by T. J. Bass.  There are
a number of similarities between these books and what she describes;
the surface people have hair and the undergrounders are bald; the
undergrounders, while not children, are child-sized; and the ordering
of food by temperature, flavor, and color.

However, I would definitely not classify these as children's books.
There is a lot of detailed and sometimes nauseating discussion of
physiology, some explicit sex, and some fairly heavy philosophy.
Not easy reading, but quite good if you can get into it.  If Ellen
could get into it when she was a kid, she must have been quite a
kid!
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 Jef