NOVEL BY VALERIE NIEMAN COLANDER

NEENA GATHERING (Pageant Books, July 1988, pb, 270 pgs.)

     Lead SF title in debut of the short-lived Pageant line
(Crown Publishers).  Now out-of-print.  Set in West Virginia, near
future, following biochemical warfare and sectional division. 
Coming-of-age story.  

     ``Unlike many postholocaust stories that offer Huck Finns 
wandering the wasteland, this charming, unpretentious novel
delves into a different form of the pastoral, modeling itself on
Thoreauvian attention to a person's place and moral actions in the
spheres of nature, society, intellect and the like.'' 

                           -- Publishers Weekly

For information, please send SASE or email to: 

        Valerie Nieman Colander
        P.O. Box 1614
        Fairmont, W.Va. 26554

        CIS 70322,1441