Maureen F. McHugh

Nekropolis

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Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself jessed, the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things. Yet nothing there is as remarkable and disturbing to her as the harni, Akhmim. A perfect replica of a man, this intelligent, machine-bred creature unsettles Hariba with its beauty, its naive, inappropriate tenderness . . . and with prying, unanswerable questions, like Why are you sad? And slowly, revulsion metamorphoses into acceptance, and then into somethi… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-182877-5
EAN: 9780061828775
Produktnummer: 29228689
Verlag: Harpercollins E-Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Maureen F. McHugh is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Mission Child, China Mountain Zhang -- which was a New York Times Notable Book, nominated for both a Hugo and a Nebula Award, and winner of the Locus Readers' Poll for Best First Novel, a James Tiptree Award, and a Lambda Award -- and Half the Day is Night. She received the Hugo for her short story The Lincoln Train, and other stories have appeared in several publications and anthologies, including in the highly regarded collection Starlight 1. Ms. McHugh lives in Ohio with her husband and stepson.