…But we’re still dialing in to BBSs and saving data on floppy disks, so the future is kind of a mixed bag. After I learned, I used my new skills to break into fifteen bulletin boards to leave the message “Aurora loves Albie.” I thought it would impress Albie. When they wanted me to take computer lessons, I did. Danziger gives us a vision of the future with moon colonies and civilian space travel… So, what is life like in 2057? Well, it’s a lot like 1986 only moreso.
Aurora and her family complete moon-pioneer training camp, and then she has to adjust to being one of the 500 colonists under the glass dome of Luna City, and then convinces the city council to let her mount a production of Our Town with her classmates, and maybe learns some valuable lessons about not being so mean to people who are not pretty or popular. So, when her parents announce that the whole family will be moving to the moon as pioneers in the new space colony, Aurora thinks that it’s, like, totally unfair! Her parents are dentists who work for the government and she has a bratty younger sister named Starr.
The Plot: It’s a one-joke premise: Valley Girl on the moon.įifteen year old Aurora Borealis Williams is a sophomore at Alan Shepard High, and a member of the most popular clique on campus, the Turnips, so-called because they “turn up” at all the most happening places. Paula Danziger is best remembered for The Cat Ate My Gym Suit, a bright and funny book about serious issues typical of the 1970s (terrible dads, fatness, inspiring teachers who insist upon being addressed as “Ms.”), so I was surprised by both how lightweight the premise of this one was and the fact I had never heard of it. In the year 2057, zits and cliques are still around, but people live in malls, take classes in ESP, and get detention from robots!
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