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The future of Mars is hotly debated among the scientists, guides, and crew of a mission to the planet, all of whom approach the issue from a number of different political and moral positions. Jamie Waterman, a Navajo and the nominal director of the mission, finds himself caught among these individual conflicts, the cumulative effects of which threaten not only the success of the mission, but the future of the planet itself.
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Phedre is the discarded daughter of a courtesan. Courtesans are highly valued professionals in the land of Terre d'Ange, a country in which the holiest commandment is, Love as thou wilt. But Phedre is flawed goods, her perfection marred by a red mote in one of her eyes. Or so she thinks until a disgraced nobleman, Anafiel Delaunay, has the wit to realize that that mote is the divine mark of an anguisette--someone who takes pleasure in physical pain. He trains her both as a courtesan and a spy, setting her on the path to an amazing destiny.
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An eternal battle between those with alien-corrupted genes and those without comes to a head when individuals on both sides vie to become the new leader who will take control of the Pattern and set its future course.
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As they weave through, reference, and illuminate each other, these lengthy stories comprise a startlingly original novel. They tap into different time periods (from the 19th to the 22nd centuries), locations (the Chatham Islands, London, California, a future dystopia in what was once Korea) and genres (noir, sci-fi, diaries, dialect narrative). Divided into two sets of tales, the book first progresses toward a central, futuristic story of tenuous survivors in a new Iron Age, then moves back again through the worlds of the first section, culminating--as it began--in the diary entries of a man in the South Seas in 1850. All together, as they comment on the passing of time and the human desire for some kind of redemption, the narratives tell a powerful, complex, and completely gripping story. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.
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