- Science fiction, Fantasy fiction, Viruses, Future life
"In a future, tropical London, humans photosynthesize, organics have replaced electronics, viruses educate people, and very few live past forty. But Milena is resistant to the viruses. She's alone until she meets Rolfa, a huge, hirsute Genetically Engineered Polar Woman, and Milena realizes she might, just might, be able to find a place for herself after all."--Page 4 of cover.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and comic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Geoff Ryman
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 388
- Publisher
- Hyman, Distributed to the trade by Consortium, St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781931520287
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**Geoff Ryman** is a Canadian living in London. He has published eight novels and two volumes of his own short fiction. He has also co-edited a collection of Canadian science fiction and edited an anthology of collaborations between fiction authors and scientists. His stories and novels have won fourteen awards, most recently a 2012 Nebula for the novelette “What We Found.” — [Alien Sex](/books/OL37962706M/)
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