Awakeners
Sheri S. Tepper. Orb Books, $23.99 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-312-89022-3
This volume unites two futuristic chronicles, Northshore and Southshore , by the author of A Plague of Angels . (July)
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Reviewed on: 07/18/1994
Genre: Fiction
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