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Shadow Man (Paragons of Queer Speculative Fiction)
Melissa Scott
Shadow Man (Paragons of Queer Speculative Fiction)
Melissa Scott
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. Warreven Stiller, a lawyer and an intersexed person, is an advocate for those who have violated Haran taboos. When Hara regains contact with the Concord worlds, Warreven finds a larger role in breaking the long-standing role society has forced on ''him,'' but the search for personal identity becomes a battleground of political intrigue and cultural clash.
Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay/Lesbian Science Fiction, Shadow Man remains one of the more important modern, speculative novels ever published in the field of gender- and sexual identity.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 25, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9781590212424 |
Publishers | Lethe Press |
Pages | 312 |
Dimensions | 225 × 18 × 150 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |