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Amanda & The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer

Carol de Chellis Hill

Paperback | Pages: 115 pages

Rating: 3.8 | 168 Users | 21 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer (Norton Paperback Fiction)
ISBN:	0747514984 (ISBN13: 9780747514985)

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But Amanda had been born in a river of electrons. Where the river ended and the marsh began it was difficult to tell; where the tadpole ended and the frog began it was difficult to tell; where the Bible's "begats" ended and history began was difficult to tell Amanda was awash in history, science, and explanations; time had clicked on in her mind in a totally different orbit from Hotchkiss. Her eyes held prisms he had only dreamed of.

August is re-read month for me, and I re-read The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer which I first read in the 1980s. I had forgotten almost everything about this book except that I had really enjoyed it, but luckily someone posted a successful request for it on Name that book, or a similar board elsewhere. All I would have been able to write in a Name That Book post would have been "it was science fiction and the there was a woman scientist, and she had a cat. Not an ordinary cat, maybe magical or kind of Shrodingery". Although it was published in the mid-1980s, it seems to me to have much more of a 1970s vibe, having a psychedelic, hippy, environmentalist streak a mile wide.

This is an extremely odd book. I enjoyed the first part of the book, in which Amanda roller-skates around the NASA campus while preparing for the first manned trip to Mars, teaching occasional physics classes to high school students and worrying about her narcoleptic cat (whose name is Schrodinger), her romantic relationships, and why a Frankenstein's monster keeps appearing in her kitchen. The book becomes tediously quirky once Amanda and 342 are in space and interacting with Rastus and the Ooze, but from Chapter 68 onwards it gets a whole lot better. I really enjoyed the final few chapters of the book and realised why I liked it so much the first time I read it.

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Title	:	Amanda & The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer
Author	:	Carol de Chellis Hill
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 115 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1993 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.8 From 168 Users | 21 Reviews

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Need to re-read this one before I can rate. I remember liking the first part of the journey and then last third got a bit confusing. I also remember really liking the science.

The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, is a novel about Amanda Jaworski, "America's leading lady astronaut," who roller skates around the NASA complex, her cat Schroedinger, who draws pictures of her feet, and their adventures in outer space. The novel is based on the principles of particle physics. It's filled with awe and wonder at the universe and is funny and fascinating.

This book is very hard to put into words. It was certainly a good break from serious things I have been reading. I guess I'd have to say it was "fun" but with a very wild ride. To try to summarize the story would be impossible. My 3 favorite characters were Amanda, physicist, astronaut, and drop-dead gorgeous; her narcoleptic cat, Schrodinger; and 342, a chimpanzee trained for space who loves to steal fast cars and go on joy rides. I liked the first 2/3 of the book better; the last 1/3 turned

Possibly the most influential book in my life, I think this book was the turning point which directed my development in geek direction :). I am thankful for it, mind you. I read it first time as a teenager, and keep reading it every several years, just to make sure I still love it the same (I do). Sure it is weird to the bits, but in a very enjoyable way. It is an easy read, and yet manages to tackle equality, quantum physics, politics, art of resilience, love, good vs. evil, and dimensions

I really liked this, when I read it as a teenager. But now I could not get into it at all. It was very quirky and as such should have kept me interested. But I was just bored. Perhaps it was too off the wall. Or it was too introspective with too little actual story progression. I am not sure. It just did not seem to be moving.

The first half of this book, about female astronaut Amanda Jaworski and her proposed flight to Mars, involved the space program, strange phenomena and international intrigue, with a lot of quirky touches that made me want to read on. Unfortunately, the second half involved Amanda's adventures in interstellar and quantum-or-something reality as she tries to retrieve her cat, and the proceedings reminded me a lot more of Douglas Adams than Thomas Pynchon.

I read this as a teenager and loved it and its a book that I rethink of every now and then so I'm pleased to have finally remembered the whole title and I think I should read it again...