Shadow man

by Melissa Scott

1995

Notes

Science fiction novel of sexual identity; winner 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction/Fantasy

Description

Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. In the far future, human culture has developed five distinctive genders due to the effects of a drug easing sickness from faster-than-light travel. But on the planet Hara, where society is increasingly instability, caught between hard-liner traditions and the realities of life, only male and female genders are legal, and the "odd-bodied" population are forced to pass as one or the other. A classic science-fiction novel and winner of the Lambda Literary Award!.

Call number

F SCO

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Winner — Science Fiction/Fantasy — 1995)
Gaylactic Spectrum Award (Shortlist — Hall of Fame — 1999)
Otherwise Award (Long list — 1995)

Publication

New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 1995.

Physical description

320 p.; 22 cm
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