Book description
The James Tiptree Jr Award-winning novel. Change or die. These are the
only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly
virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever
altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has
lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep
- and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of
spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them
afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis,
anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. As she
risks death to uncover the women's biological secret, she finds that
she, too, is changing - and realizes that not only has she found a home
on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction. . . .
Nicola Griffith (1960 - ) Nicola Griffith is a British science fiction
author, editor and essayist. Griffith graduated from the Michigan State
University Clarion science fiction writing workshop in 1988, and has won
the Nebula, the James Tiptree, Jr, the World Fantasy and six Lambda
Literary Awards. Although born in Yorkshire, she now lives in Seattle,
in the USA.
