Books by Pamela Sargent and Complete Book Reviews
Pamela Sargent, Tor, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1428-4
Returning to the world of Home, which humans colonized in 1983's Earthseed and where they split into two cultures in 2007's Farseed, Sargent continues exploring the nature of violence and rivalry. The farmers along the great lake and river lead low-t
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Pamela Sargent, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-100107-1
As in previous years, this excellent 1993 collection of Nebula Award winners covers a broad range of styles, treatments and subjects. Selected SF authors, in short essays, bemoan the state of the genre, yet these stories and novellas (and even a...
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Pamela Sargent, Author Harvest Books $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-100108-8
For her third and final Nebula Award anthology, covering the 1995 awards, Sargent (who won the 1992 Nebula for Best Novelette) offers both less and more than the title implies. The Best Novel winner isn't here, understandably, but neither are all...
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Pamela Sargent, Author Eos $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-105027-5
Nebula and Locus award-winner Sargent's latest novel completes her masterful SF trilogy (Venus of Shadows and Venus of Dreams) about terraforming the planet Venus. Thanks to the advanced technology of the Habbers (humans who long ago left Earth...
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Pamela Sargent, Author HarperCollins Publishers $13.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-06-025202-1
On Nita's 15th birthday, her alien guardian Llipel reveals the story of her birth. Llipel and her companion, Llare, landed on Earth and discovered the Institute, a place founded before the last series of wars had killed off the human population....
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Pamela Sargent, Author Random House Value Publishing $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-55834-8
This unusual romance novel takes a fresh look at a familiar science fiction setting. In a post-nuclear future, women live in walled cities, controlling all technology. Men, considered incapable of complex intellectual functions, worship females as...
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Pamela Sargent, Author Crown Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57364-8
The ruthless 13th-century warrior Genghis Khan, who built a vast empire in his drive for world conquest, is the subject of this workmanlike historical novel, a panorama of warfare, intrigue, sex and betrayal. In Sargent's ( The Shore of Women )...
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Pamela Sargent, Author, Pamela Sargent, Editor Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-15-100113-2
The 30th Nebula Award collection, while a respectable ""year's best"" and report on the genre, somehow fails to strike sparks. Editor Sargent includes a lot: all the short-fiction winners and nominated short stories; a section of the winning novel,...
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Pamela Sargent, Author, Pamela Sargent, Introduction by Harvest Books $17 (324p) ISBN 978-0-15-600119-9
As in previous years, this excellent 1993 collection of Nebula Award winners covers a broad range of styles, treatments and subjects. Selected SF authors, in short essays, bemoan the state of the genre, yet these stories and novellas (and even a...
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Pamela Sargent, Author, James Morrow, JR., Introduction by . Golden Gryphon $25.95 (345p) ISBN 978-1-930846-29-6
Editor Terry Carr once rejected two of Sargent's early stories, saying that her talent for characterization deserved better plots. In the 30-odd years since, Sargent has found some. Included are some of her best older tales: from the 1970s, "
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