The Dingilliad is a series of young adult science fiction

Science fiction

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 novels by the author David Gerrold

David Gerrold

Jerrold David Friedman , better known by his pen name David Gerrold, is an American science fiction author who started his career in 1966 while a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series Star Trek. He was invited to submit several premises, and the one...

. The trilogy is published under the title The Far Side of the Sky. It is also known as The Starsiders Trilogy, although The Dingilliad is the name given by the author. The latter refers to Dingillian, the surname of the family of main characters, and is a pun on the Iliad

Iliad

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

. The books are often compared to Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...

's juvenile novels.

The books in the series include: Jumping Off the Planet (2000), Bouncing Off the Moon (2001) and Leaping to the Stars (2002). A future fourth book has been mooted

Mootness

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 by the author.

Jumping off the Planet

It was originally written as a novella and was nominated for the Nebula award and the HOMer award. This novella was then expanded to a novel of the same title and won the Hal Clement (young adult) Golden Duck award

Golden Duck Awards

The Golden Duck Awards for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction have been given annually since 1992.-Categories:The categories are:* Picture Book* K- 5th Grade Reader* Middle Grades * Young Adult...

 and the Gaylactic Spectrum award

Gaylactic Spectrum Awards

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, and was also nominated for a Lambda award

Lambda Literary Award

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 for science fiction and a second HOMer award.