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June 2019
On Sale: May 21, 2019
224 pages
ISBN: 1984854208
EAN: 9781984854209
Kindle: B07MQQ6VMD
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Science Fiction
A rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twenty-second-century society where the winner takes all, a precursor to The Hunger Games by one of the genreโs first major female writersโwith an introduction by Naomi Alderman, New York Times bestselling author of The Power and Disobedience Philadelphia, 1918: Three friendsโbrave, confident Viola Trenmore, clever but shy Robert Drayton, and Violaโs strong and hot-tempered brother, Terryโdiscover a mysterious powder that transports them two hundred years into the future. The Philadelphia of 2118 is no longer a bustling metropolis but instead a completely isolated city recovering from an unknown disaster. Citizens are issued identification tags instead of having names, and society is split between a wealthy, powerful minority and a downtrodden lower class. The position of supreme authority is held by a woman, and once a year she oversees competitions to the death to determine who rules alongside her. When Viola, Terry, and Robert are forced to take part in these strange and deadly games, it will take their combined wits for them to escape this strange world and return home. Equal parts adventure and dystopia, The Heads of Cerberus is an unjustly forgotten work of early science fiction written by a trailblazing master of the genre. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.
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