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June 2007
On Sale: June 1, 2007
528 pages
ISBN: 0061170658
EAN: 9780061170652
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Science Fiction
The Margarets marks the long-awaited return of
one of the most respected authors in the sf community; a
writer who has earned accolades and the admiration of
every true aficionado of bold, brilliant, risk-taking
speculative fiction. Sheri S. Tepper dazzles yet again
with a powerful tale of ingenious survival and strange
destiny. The only human child living in a human
work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little
Margaret Bain has devised a system for keeping the
suffocating demons of boredom and loneliness at bay: She
invents six imaginary companions, each an extension of her
own personality, to play with. When the unproductive
Phobos project is shut down, and after Margaret is forced
to return to Earth with her parents, the child's other
selves are lost to her. But they are not gone. Left
behind, each one flourishes—refining its own persona,
acquiring its own history—before ultimately dispersing to
far-flung destinations throughout the universe.
On a near-barren homeworld denuded by thoughtless-ness and
chemistry, Margaret grows to adulthood and marries,
despite the seemingly utter hopelessness of humanity's
future. The Earth is so impoverished that its inhabitants
must import water and other basic necessities of life—
trading the only viable product the planet has left to
offer . . . slaves. The time will come
when Margaret must leave this world as well, expelled as
part of a desperate survival plan millennia in the making—
an astonishing scheme that will require her to gather
together the many Margarets who are now scattered
throughout the galaxy. The creator of the
Margarets must now bring all her selves home . . . or
watch her race perish.
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