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Arthur C. Clarke Award Best Book (nominee)
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel (nominee)
Earth is in crisis, virtually destroyed by overpopulation, and mankind is teethering on the edge. ISTO - the Interstellar Trade Organization - had demanded man's extinction, for a living planet is more important than any race upon it, and was about to start 'reducing' mankind when Earthgov agreed its demands, to sell 90 per cent of Earth's inhabitants into bondage to alien races. When Margaret is six, she imagines herself as a spy, a healer, a queen, a warrior, even a boy, to amuse herself; when she is nine, and 12, and 20, at crisis points in her life, she feels like parts of her have split off - like the Margaret who decided to follow her lover to Tercis and the Margaret who said no. So now, as well as Margaret, she is Wilvia, learning to be a queen on B'yurngrad, and Ongamar, a spy on Cantardene, and Gretamara, a healer on Chottem, and even Naumi, a boy on Thairy, and she is many other Margarets besides. And all these Margarets hold the key to mankind's survival, if only they can survive and come together again as one Margaret, with all their different powers intact . . .
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
Praise for this book
"Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative narrative." - Ursula K Le Guin
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Used availability for Sheri S Tepper's The Margarets
Hardback Editions
January 2008 : UK Hardback
May 2007 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
March 2009 : UK Paperback
June 2008 : USA Mass Market Paperback
January 2008 : UK Paperback
Kindle Editions
September 2011 : Australia, UK Kindle edition
October 2009 : USA, Canada Kindle edition