Sylvia Engdahl
Author, Editor (anthology) | Eugene, Oregon |
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Sylvia Engdahl is the author of nine science fiction novels, six of which are Young Adult novels that are also enjoyed by adults. The one for which she is best known, Enchantress from the Stars, was a Newbery Honor book, winner of the 1990 Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, and a finalist for the 2002 Book Sense.... more
Sylvia Engdahl is the author of nine science fiction novels, six of which are Young Adult novels that are also enjoyed by adults. The one for which she is best known, Enchantress from the Stars, was a Newbery Honor book, winner of the 1990 Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, and a finalist for the 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Rediscovery category. Her three latest novels, Stewards of the Flame, Promise of the Flame, and Defender of the Flame, which were independently published, are for adults. Recently, she has also published indie editions of some of her backlist titles and an updated and expanded edition of her nonfiction book The Planet-Girded Suns, first published in 1974 with the subtitle Man's View of Other Solar Systems and now subtitled The History of Human Thought About Extrasolar Worlds. She now works as a freelance editor of nonfiction anthologies for high schools.