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by Gwyneth Jones

ISBN: 0312863969
Author: Gwyneth Jones
Language: English
Publisher: Tor Books; 1st edition (November 15, 1997)
Pages: 288
Category: Science Fiction
Subcategory: Fantasy
Rating: 4.9
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Series: White Queen Trilogy (Book 1). Paperback: 320 pages. this novel of first contact creates an almost credible near future earth and avoids the cliche of vastly superior aliens swooping down to subjugate humanity and strip its resources. Instead, Jones' aliens live among humans for awhile, cloaking their existence, until a strange emotional relationship between Johnny Guglioli, a UFO chaser, and Agnes/Clevel, an alien residing in Africa, leads to their discovery.

At present Asaba had a small war, and a desertification problem, in the north. But basically it was busy creating wealth, by supposedly benign means.

Digital ISBN: 978-1-933500-68-3. At present Asaba had a small war, and a desertification problem, in the north.

I did not manage to finish the book prior to this one, Gwyneth Jones' White Queen

I did not manage to finish the book prior to this one, Gwyneth Jones' White Queen. I am slightly surprised that I finished this one, in that light, but the structure of this novel is definitely easier to cope with, and I think the plot is slightly more straightforward too. So in White Queen the aliens arrive and it turns out they've been living amongst for rather a long time.

Gwyneth Jones (born 14 February 1952) is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the name Ann Halam. White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie). China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1992). Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993).

The speaker was Katalamma Pillai: a young Woman of vigorous, athletic presence, dressed in a smartly tailored emerald green tunic and trousers.

The speaker was Katalamma Pillai: a young Woman of vigorous, athletic presence, dressed in a smartly tailored emerald green tunic and trousers binet in her mother’s office. Katalamma had brought the fugitive halfcaste home to her mother’s house: a pleasantly old-fashioned establishment in the green heart of Woman Town. Pillai was a distinguished Reformist lawyer.

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Items related to White Queen (White Queen Trilogy). The book won the 1991 James Tiptree Jr. Award. Jones, Gwyneth White Queen (White Queen Trilogy). ISBN 13: 9780312890131. White Queen (White Queen Trilogy). About the Author: Gwyneth Jones lives in Brighton with her husband and son. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for BOLD AS LOVE; CASTLES MADE OF SAND was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award.

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After 300 years, the alien Aleutians are preparing to leave Earth and a human conspiracy led by Misha Connelly and his companions at the Phoenix Cafe plot against them. North Wind Tor trade paper From the author of Flowerdust and Divine Endurance comes a sequel to White Queen, the winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for Best Novel of the Year.

Continues the story of Johnny and Braemar, whose exploits have become legendary and whose faster-than-light drive is desperately sought by different factions, including an alien who may be Johnny's daughter

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Fearlessdweller

This sequel to the award-winning "White Queen" takes place some years later on an earth torn by the Gender Wars or the Traditionalists versus the Reformers. Earth still accommodates the Aleutians, hermaphroditic aliens who have been lost in space aboard a huge ship-world for countless generations and have now made earth their home.

The Aleutians, whose absolute belief in reincarnation makes them immortal, at least in their own eyes, do not understand earthlings' concern with individual death, which gives them an amusingly skewed vision of war, pollution and disease.

Aleutians communicate almost telepathically through wanderers, bits of themselves which wander from one to another like lice, carrying information. Their technology is also life-based - tools created from their own cells - and they have no interest in earth technology or "dead" matter. They cannot comprehend, for instance, the earthlings attachment to the Himalayas, which the Aleutians would like to level in the interests of climate control.

The protagonists are Sidney Carton, a consciously literary fellow, who may or may not be the Aleutian ally he pretends to be, and Bella, the "isolate" Aleutian crippled among her/his own kind by a lack of wanderers and sought by all sides for reasons she does not understand. Rescued from human attack by Sidney, Bella discovers health and strength in adversity and a surprising talent for human virtual reality games.

The book's adventures through war-torn cities and cultural factions are at times confusing - Jones makes it purposely difficult to determine the sides, and their search for the secret human discovery of faster-than-light travel seems an afterthought - but Jones' vision of alien culture keeps its quirky allure, being both thought-provoking and humorous.

Fearlessrunner

Fascinating exploration of gender, self, difference and all facets of identity. This book is a sequel to "White Queen", but I don't think the order you read them in matters. Set on earth in a future of poverty, virtual reality and a "gender" war between traditionalists and reformists. Two hundred years of a limited alien presence on earth has not improved communications or relations - the humans think the aliens can read their minds - the aliens regard science and human technology as mysticism and magic and are equally paranoid. Their is a temporary ceasefire and a massacre of the aliens, and a disabled librarian survives with a human guide who may not be trustworthy....