Book description
The Gene Wars have turned Earth into a blighted wasteland. Mile-long
airships patrol the skies, exacting crippling tribute from the scattered
ground communities. Threatened by mutant vegetation and predatory
creatures, forced to the brink of starvation by the Sky Lords, Minerva -
a former feminist utopia - has had enough.
Its rebellion is swiftly crushed and Jan Dorvin, a Minervan warrior, is
winched aboard a Sky Lord; towards a fate worse than death. For as a
ground dweller and slave - but above all, as a woman - she is now
regarded as the lowest form of humanity and is consigned to a life spent
serving the sexual appetites of male slaves.
But no Minervan could be kept slave for very long... John Brosnan
(1947 - 2005)
John Raymond Brosnan was born in Perth, Australia, in 1947 but lived in
London for all his adult life. He wrote most of the film entries in the
first edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, and his
influential books on the movies, include the seminal The Horror People
, Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction
and The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film
, as well as a number of acclaimed fantasy and SF novels. He died in
2005.
