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Modern Library
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 genre’s first major female writers—with an introduction
by Naomi Alderman, New York Times bestselling author
of The Power and Disobedience
Philadelphia, 1918: Three friends—brave, confident Viola
Trenmore, clever but shy Robert Drayton, and Viola’s strong
and hot-tempered brother, Terry—discover 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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