Novel where a girl cares for psychic children, maybe set on a starship

The name of the pictureThe name of the pictureThe name of the pictureClash Royale CLAN TAG#URR8PPP





.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty margin-bottom:0;







up vote
6
down vote

favorite












I can't recall the name of a novel where a young human woman takes care of a group of children who may have psychic powers but the government does not know what their abilities are or when they will manifest. When the woman identifies that a child has an ability she notifies the authorities who take the child away, most like to be dissected for experimentation.



After the first child with an ability is taken away the young woman decides to protect the rest of the children. Most of the children display abilities. The book may be set on a starship due to some of the references.



When the young women goes out to socialize she wears a dress of twigs and leaves as she does not have a full body tattoo which is the current vogue.



There was an alien, a green being that may have been like a pet. The book itself had a green cover, and may have the word "green" in the title.










share|improve this question









New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.



















  • Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
    – Jenayah
    4 hours ago







  • 2




    General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
    – Underverse
    4 hours ago










  • @user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
    – Jenayah
    3 hours ago










  • @user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
    – Underverse
    3 hours ago
















up vote
6
down vote

favorite












I can't recall the name of a novel where a young human woman takes care of a group of children who may have psychic powers but the government does not know what their abilities are or when they will manifest. When the woman identifies that a child has an ability she notifies the authorities who take the child away, most like to be dissected for experimentation.



After the first child with an ability is taken away the young woman decides to protect the rest of the children. Most of the children display abilities. The book may be set on a starship due to some of the references.



When the young women goes out to socialize she wears a dress of twigs and leaves as she does not have a full body tattoo which is the current vogue.



There was an alien, a green being that may have been like a pet. The book itself had a green cover, and may have the word "green" in the title.










share|improve this question









New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.



















  • Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
    – Jenayah
    4 hours ago







  • 2




    General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
    – Underverse
    4 hours ago










  • @user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
    – Jenayah
    3 hours ago










  • @user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
    – Underverse
    3 hours ago












up vote
6
down vote

favorite









up vote
6
down vote

favorite











I can't recall the name of a novel where a young human woman takes care of a group of children who may have psychic powers but the government does not know what their abilities are or when they will manifest. When the woman identifies that a child has an ability she notifies the authorities who take the child away, most like to be dissected for experimentation.



After the first child with an ability is taken away the young woman decides to protect the rest of the children. Most of the children display abilities. The book may be set on a starship due to some of the references.



When the young women goes out to socialize she wears a dress of twigs and leaves as she does not have a full body tattoo which is the current vogue.



There was an alien, a green being that may have been like a pet. The book itself had a green cover, and may have the word "green" in the title.










share|improve this question









New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.











I can't recall the name of a novel where a young human woman takes care of a group of children who may have psychic powers but the government does not know what their abilities are or when they will manifest. When the woman identifies that a child has an ability she notifies the authorities who take the child away, most like to be dissected for experimentation.



After the first child with an ability is taken away the young woman decides to protect the rest of the children. Most of the children display abilities. The book may be set on a starship due to some of the references.



When the young women goes out to socialize she wears a dress of twigs and leaves as she does not have a full body tattoo which is the current vogue.



There was an alien, a green being that may have been like a pet. The book itself had a green cover, and may have the word "green" in the title.







story-identification novel






share|improve this question









New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.











share|improve this question









New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.









share|improve this question




share|improve this question








edited 1 hour ago









TheLethalCarrot

35.9k15195237




35.9k15195237






New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.









asked 4 hours ago









Underverse

1316




1316




New contributor




Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.





New contributor





Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.






Underverse is a new contributor to this site. Take care in asking for clarification, commenting, and answering.
Check out our Code of Conduct.











  • Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
    – Jenayah
    4 hours ago







  • 2




    General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
    – Underverse
    4 hours ago










  • @user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
    – Jenayah
    3 hours ago










  • @user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
    – Underverse
    3 hours ago
















  • Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
    – Jenayah
    4 hours ago







  • 2




    General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
    – Underverse
    4 hours ago










  • @user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
    – Jenayah
    3 hours ago










  • @user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
    – Underverse
    3 hours ago















Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
– Jenayah
4 hours ago





Hi there! Roughly when did you read this? Also, you mentioned "references" to a starship - are those general memories or do you remember something more specific than that? Could you edit them in?
– Jenayah
4 hours ago





2




2




General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
– Underverse
4 hours ago




General references, and specifically that the society was closed off or indoors. It also referenced using 'tubes' to get around the place. From what I can remember it has the feel of people living in a generation ship. Due to this being read in the early 90s my memory isn't so clear on this part
– Underverse
4 hours ago












@user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
– Jenayah
3 hours ago




@user14111 hmmmm... That may be my fault. Original title did read "novel green alien girl" but it may have been a missing comma rather than an adjective (what I thought). Indeed though, let's wait for OP to have the last call.
– Jenayah
3 hours ago












@user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
– Underverse
3 hours ago




@user141111 It should have referred to the "green alien" - my bad for lack of clarity in the title originally. I've taken it out.
– Underverse
3 hours ago










1 Answer
1






active

oldest

votes

















up vote
5
down vote













Perhaps Green Is for Galanx, a 1980 novel by Josephine Rector Stone. The cover has quite a bit of green in it.



Excerpt from a review by Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1980, available at the Internet Archive:




Willy's World is a self-contained, artificial satellite that has been
wandering around the universe for several generations (shades of
Space: 1999 and Lost in Space!). It is a despotism that's not all that
benevolent, and a group of mutant children with psi powers and
their guardian, Ilona, fear that the children will be killed in order
to analyze their talents for adaptation to android mentalities. When
the chance comes, the group, accompanied by the shape-changing
Galanx which they've more or less adopted as a pet, escapes to a
new planet. There they must cope with the strangeness of a natural
world, and escape the inevitable pursuit.







share|improve this answer




















    Your Answer








    StackExchange.ready(function()
    var channelOptions =
    tags: "".split(" "),
    id: "186"
    ;
    initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

    StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function()
    // Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
    if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled)
    StackExchange.using("snippets", function()
    createEditor();
    );

    else
    createEditor();

    );

    function createEditor()
    StackExchange.prepareEditor(
    heartbeatType: 'answer',
    convertImagesToLinks: false,
    noModals: true,
    showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
    reputationToPostImages: null,
    bindNavPrevention: true,
    postfix: "",
    imageUploader:
    brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
    contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
    allowUrls: true
    ,
    noCode: true, onDemand: true,
    discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
    ,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
    );



    );






    Underverse is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.









     

    draft saved


    draft discarded


















    StackExchange.ready(
    function ()
    StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f198267%2fnovel-where-a-girl-cares-for-psychic-children-maybe-set-on-a-starship%23new-answer', 'question_page');

    );

    Post as a guest






























    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes








    1 Answer
    1






    active

    oldest

    votes









    active

    oldest

    votes






    active

    oldest

    votes








    up vote
    5
    down vote













    Perhaps Green Is for Galanx, a 1980 novel by Josephine Rector Stone. The cover has quite a bit of green in it.



    Excerpt from a review by Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1980, available at the Internet Archive:




    Willy's World is a self-contained, artificial satellite that has been
    wandering around the universe for several generations (shades of
    Space: 1999 and Lost in Space!). It is a despotism that's not all that
    benevolent, and a group of mutant children with psi powers and
    their guardian, Ilona, fear that the children will be killed in order
    to analyze their talents for adaptation to android mentalities. When
    the chance comes, the group, accompanied by the shape-changing
    Galanx which they've more or less adopted as a pet, escapes to a
    new planet. There they must cope with the strangeness of a natural
    world, and escape the inevitable pursuit.







    share|improve this answer
























      up vote
      5
      down vote













      Perhaps Green Is for Galanx, a 1980 novel by Josephine Rector Stone. The cover has quite a bit of green in it.



      Excerpt from a review by Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1980, available at the Internet Archive:




      Willy's World is a self-contained, artificial satellite that has been
      wandering around the universe for several generations (shades of
      Space: 1999 and Lost in Space!). It is a despotism that's not all that
      benevolent, and a group of mutant children with psi powers and
      their guardian, Ilona, fear that the children will be killed in order
      to analyze their talents for adaptation to android mentalities. When
      the chance comes, the group, accompanied by the shape-changing
      Galanx which they've more or less adopted as a pet, escapes to a
      new planet. There they must cope with the strangeness of a natural
      world, and escape the inevitable pursuit.







      share|improve this answer






















        up vote
        5
        down vote










        up vote
        5
        down vote









        Perhaps Green Is for Galanx, a 1980 novel by Josephine Rector Stone. The cover has quite a bit of green in it.



        Excerpt from a review by Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1980, available at the Internet Archive:




        Willy's World is a self-contained, artificial satellite that has been
        wandering around the universe for several generations (shades of
        Space: 1999 and Lost in Space!). It is a despotism that's not all that
        benevolent, and a group of mutant children with psi powers and
        their guardian, Ilona, fear that the children will be killed in order
        to analyze their talents for adaptation to android mentalities. When
        the chance comes, the group, accompanied by the shape-changing
        Galanx which they've more or less adopted as a pet, escapes to a
        new planet. There they must cope with the strangeness of a natural
        world, and escape the inevitable pursuit.







        share|improve this answer












        Perhaps Green Is for Galanx, a 1980 novel by Josephine Rector Stone. The cover has quite a bit of green in it.



        Excerpt from a review by Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1980, available at the Internet Archive:




        Willy's World is a self-contained, artificial satellite that has been
        wandering around the universe for several generations (shades of
        Space: 1999 and Lost in Space!). It is a despotism that's not all that
        benevolent, and a group of mutant children with psi powers and
        their guardian, Ilona, fear that the children will be killed in order
        to analyze their talents for adaptation to android mentalities. When
        the chance comes, the group, accompanied by the shape-changing
        Galanx which they've more or less adopted as a pet, escapes to a
        new planet. There they must cope with the strangeness of a natural
        world, and escape the inevitable pursuit.








        share|improve this answer












        share|improve this answer



        share|improve this answer










        answered 3 hours ago









        user14111

        96.1k6376483




        96.1k6376483




















            Underverse is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.









             

            draft saved


            draft discarded


















            Underverse is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.












            Underverse is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.











            Underverse is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.













             


            draft saved


            draft discarded














            StackExchange.ready(
            function ()
            StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fscifi.stackexchange.com%2fquestions%2f198267%2fnovel-where-a-girl-cares-for-psychic-children-maybe-set-on-a-starship%23new-answer', 'question_page');

            );

            Post as a guest













































































            Comments

            Popular posts from this blog

            What does second last employer means? [closed]

            Installing NextGIS Connect into QGIS 3?

            One-line joke