Maureen F. McHugh
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Maureen F. McHugh
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…
Maureen F. McHugh
Young Janna has lived her fourteen years on the icy northern plains of a world that has forgotten its history. Now the arrival of Earthers—descendants of the humans who first settled the planet many centuries before—has violently upset the fragile balance of a developing civilization. The offworlders’ advanced technologies and cruel indifference to local life have brought despair and destruction to janna’s home, robbing her of family, husband, child, and self. Haunted by a dead past—mysteriously altered by the gift of three alien artifacts—Janna must now redefine…
