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Six Moon Dance

by Sheri S. Tepper

ISBN: 0380791986
ISBN-13: 9780380791989
Format: Paperback

Summary

The residents of Newholme-a matriarchal, largely agrarian planet-have several reason to be concerned. The planet's six moons will soon reach a rare alignment, which is fabled to bring disaster, and there is also an impending visit from the Questioner II, a high-tech machine which judges the relative merit of entire worlds and has the capacity to mete out severe punishment to those it finds flawed.

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"...[A] marvelously complex book, filled with humanity seen, and felt, at its best and its worst, and set alongside some fascinating alienness as well. Tepper knows how to stir the wit and wisdom of parable into a genuine page-turner of a narrative." -- Faren Miller

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1999
Size: 4.5 x 7 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 534

Publisher's Notes

It was many years ago that humans came and settled the world of Newholme-cruelly bending the planet to their will; setting down roots and raising up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess. But now the ground itself is shaking with ever-increasing violence. And the Great Questioner, official arbiter of the Council of Worlds, has come to this isolated orb to investigate rumors of a terrible secret that lies buried deep within Newholme's past - a past that is not dead, not completely. And it will fall to Mouche, a beautiful youth of uncommon cleverness and spirit, to save his imperiled home by discovering and embracing that which makes him unique among humans. For every living thing on newholme is doomed, unless Mouche can appease something dark and terrible that is coiled within...and surrender to the mysterious ecstatic revelry that results when the six moons join.

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