Publication

1997-04-15 - Orb Books

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100312860986
  • ISBN-139780312860981
  • Goodreads836964
  • LibraryThing23052
  • OCLC Control Number36935091
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  • Better World Books9780312860981
  • Open LibraryOL9497254M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3563.C3687 C48 1997
  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3563.C3687 C48 1992

Description

Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a postrevolution America, moving from the hyperurbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an agricultural commune on Mars. The overlapping lives of cyberkite fliers, lonely colonists, illicit neural-pressball players, and organic engineers blend into a powerful, taut story of a young man's journey of discovery. This is a macroscopic world of microscopic intensity, one of the most brilliant visions of modern SF.

First Sentence

The foreman chatters in Meihua, the beautiful tongue, Singapore English.

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