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A Paradigm of Earthby Dorsey, Candas Jane
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Book DescriptionNew York, New York, U.S.A.: Tor Books, 2002. This is a science fiction parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with misfits and political outcasts - in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: An alien child. Publisher's Weekly said of this book: "Dorsey has produced a powerful character study filled with color and highly emotive language. . . .Morgan's development from a depressed, hollow shell of a person to someone who can both love and be loved is detailed with impressive skill. Those interested in gender and feminism, as well as fans of thoughtful, emotion-centered SF, have a treat in store." 366 pages including acknowledgments. The front cover has a crease on it.. ISBN: 0312877978. First Trade Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FICTION SCIENCE EMOTIONS ALIEN CHILD. Book summaryAfter the death of her parents, social worker Morgan Shelby inherits a mansion in Canada. Soon after moving there, she turns the massive home into a boarding house taking in an ever changing stream of bizarre guests. The strangest one, though, comes in the form of an androgynous alien that Morgan has been contracted by the government to help acclimatize to life on Earth.Media Reviews"Angst, aliens, death, politics, sexuality, experience, and the elusive nature of the soul, all come together in a whole which transcends its parts, to reveal the complexity and strangeness of a world which its inhabitants tend to take for granted. And this places A PARADIGM OF EARTH in one of science fiction's best traditions: providing a means of understanding the ongoing mystery of ourselves." -- Faren Miller, Locus First LineEvery day Morgan moved among the living gargoyles. Asam was seven. He had come for a new face. The surgeon would break his skull in half a hundred ways, would put him back together in a shape his mother, thank goodness, wouldn't recognize. His mother had lived with and loved that face everyone else feared. Now it was Morgan's turn, Morgan held him in her arms, rocked him in the rocking chair. Publisher NotesIn a not-too-distant future dominated by political and social conservatism, a household of politcal outcasts in a midwestern Canadian city is turned upside down by the arrival of a humanoid alien infant whose coming is marked by fierce government surveillance. By the author of Black Wine. Reprint. Other Recommended Books
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