[Sca-librarians] Fwd: SF title & author

[Lisa Tyson]

Hi, 

Reference pop quiz... Can anyone identify this author/title
based on the plotline as described? 

This person posted to SCA East but no one seems to recognize
the story. I've asked if the person was a child when they read the
book (juvenile title?) so it can be anchored in time a bit more easily. 

Bryn Millar

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		Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:05:29 AM
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From:		Lisa Tyson
Subject:	SF title & author
To:		souriete at yahoo.com

Hi, 

Your posting could be better answered by a professional librarian
at a public library. They answer these kinds of questions daily 
and may have good resources to draw upon to track down 
your book.  Your local public or academic library probably has
an online service to which you can email the description. 

Of course, you might get lucky on the sca-east list and someone
may know.. 

If you find the title and author though, please do share.. <smile!>

Bryn Millar 
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kristine Elliott <souriete at yahoo.com>
Subject: [EK] OT: Looking for name and author of SF book
To: sca-east at indra.com


I hope the members of this list and the moderator will forgive me an
OT posting when the list is slow, but I am looking for the name and
author of a science fiction book I read about 30 years ago and I
figure we have enough SF and Fantasy readers that I'll probably find
the answer here quicker than anywhere else. To keep OT posting to a
minimum, please reply to me off list.

I remember some of the plot: a man goes forward in time to a future
era where mankind has so advanced that they don't have to do any work
and as a result they don't have any lines on their hands. I think
they lived underground and were mostly concerned with aesthetics. A
few rebellious younger members of the society study the past,
particularly engines and machinery and one of these shoots some kind
of artist (poet?) during the artist's show, which causes major
problems in the society because murder is so unusual in their
society. The narrator is staying with a family and is in love with
the daughter of the family. Sometime after the shooting, she runs
away and becomes the mistress of the military leader of a renegade
band of humans that are trying to return to a more primative and
natural human life. I think the narrator tries to be an envoy between
the "normal" society and the renegades and meets up again with the
girl. I don't remember what happens after that, but that should be
more than enough plot for someone to identify the book if they have
read it.

Thanks,

Triste