- Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, gay, LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy, Lambda Literary Awards
Winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award, the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Hugo and Nebula Award nominee.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and meticulous.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Maureen F. McHugh
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Orbit, Tor, Brand: Tor Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812508925
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First sentence
“The foreman chatters in Meihua, the beautiful tongue, Singapore English.”
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