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Nekropolis [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Maureen McHugh
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 Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things. Yet nothing there is as remarkable and disturbing to her as the harni, Akhmim. A perfect replica of a man, this intelligent, machine-bred creature unsettles Hariba with its beauty, its naive, inappropriate te... more info>> (Published: 2004)
Category: Science Fiction
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Interview: On Any Given Day [MultiFormat]
by Maureen McHugh
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The following interview was conducted with Emma Chicheck. In the summer of 2018, a fifteen year old student came into a health clinic in the suburban town of Charlotte, outside Cleveland, Ohio with a sexually transmitted version of a proto-virus called pv414, which had recently been identified as a result of contaminated batches of genetic material associated with the telemerase therapy used in rejuvenation. In the near future, seventy year olds can be made to seem to be twenty again, but at wha... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 6360 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
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Mothers & Other Monsters [MultiFormat]
by Maureen McHugh
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In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist Maureen F. McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations., A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother; A teenager is interviewed about her peer group's attitudes toward sex and baby boomers; A m... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Words: 90757 - Reading Time: 259-363 min.
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Presence [MultiFormat]
by Maureen McHugh
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Mila's once competent husband Gus is disappearing into Alzheimer's before her eyes. An expensive experimental technology may offer hope. (Published: 2002) Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 9837 - Reading Time: 28-39 min.
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