Category Archives: 1980s

118E: Woman Out Jogging is Kidnapped to Another World Where Everyone Has Tawny Colored Eyes

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I think this book stumper may be one of the harder ones. I’ve been trying to help my friend find this one and we’ve gone ALL over the Internet to every single site that does this sort of thing and NO ONE has the slightest idea of what the book is. SO, if you guys can figure it out we’d both be eternally grateful!! 🙂

 What is Remembered About it:
the name of the planet translated to “Tawny” if I remember. that was also the colour of the eyes of all natives there. the woman who was transported
to the planet had different coloured eyes.
I remember that she became a “priestess’ due to the fact she had more than
one child with her husband back on Earth. as well as due to her transport.
she had special abilities. abilities these males in a bad area wanted to
stop. because they wanted the natives to stop breeding.

1) Available in 80s or 90s in SF/Fantasy
(2) The author is definitely a woman
(3) It is *not* part of a series – it is a stand alone book
(4) I have a vague recollection of the word “Karin” or “Kirin” or “Kyrin”
or something like that in the title or possibly the name of the main
character or the planet. But, searches on these words have been fruitless.
(5) The opening of the book is set in “modern” times – i.e. 20th century.
(6) The main character is a 30-something year old woman who is out jogging
and gets transported to another world through a vortex. She finds herself
as a pseudo servant on this planet. Character ‘falls’ for overlord of
manor. The book sounds like a corny sci-fi romance, but it is not a
‘bodice
ripper’. [I recall a scene in a horse paddock where the
‘overseer/overlord’
is trying to capture her. She is still wearing her jogging shoes and she
is
able to evade him because her running skills are superior to the other
captives. Another scene I remember takes place in a sauna. Another woman
reaches out and touches the main character’s c-section scar. A spark leaps
between them and the other woman is able to get pregnant. In another scene
she is back on a starship and finds out that she was kidnapped illegally
and that there is no way for her to get back to earth as too much time has
now passed there and her family is long gone

(7) The book is NOT part of the “Gor” series by John Norman. Again, not a bodice ripper!

 

103L: Girl Pretends to be a Giant

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This was a favorite book of mine when I was very little at the Travelers Rest, South Carolina library between 1987-1990 (age 4-7). It was a small picture book, I believe with fairly simple illustrations on white pages. The little girl pretends she is a giant (or thinks she is a giant?). She goes through various scenarios showing this. The only page I remember clearly is when she is eating trees for her broccoli.

102W: Intergalactic Airport

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A children’s book (early 90s/late 80s?). Comes with tape. A boy enters an abandoned house (w/ little sister?); it’s really an intergalactic airport for aliens. Aliens are friendly; one that’s green with multiple eyes buys him a multi-flavored milkshake.

102M: Bear with Bionic Shoes

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I’m looking for a children’s book early 1980s (or possibly very late 70s).  The main character was a young bear who had bionic shoes – Bruce the Bionic Bear?  He looked like one of the Berenstain bears, but I can’t seem to track him down that way.  When he put his shoes on, he could leap across streams and there was a big rainbow illustrated somewhere in it too.

102F: Miniature World of creatures with sci-fi technology

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1980s children’s picture book I loved as a boy. It had wonderful, intricate illustrations of a miniature world (possibly in a tree?), where little humanoid creatures lived. I’m fairly certain there were certain sci-fi elements to it, and possibly some conflict between differently-colored factions. The illustrations included cutaways of tunnels and little cities etc. There may also have been bears with technology (rocket suits?), but that might be mixing up with another book. I’d love for someone to help – I’m a children’s book illustrator now and this was an early influence and inspiration for me.

Thank you!