![]() ![]() ![]() In her world brains and psyches can be re-programmed in hours, bodies cloned and copyrighted and human capabilities enhanced by instant 'wetware' programming. ***In the sprawling space civilizations of the future, where humans live in hollowed-out asteroids, tunnelled comets and other artificial habitats, Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark awakes in the Medical centre in the body of another woman. Now Vacuum Flowers - vivid, fast-paced and tremendous fun - confirms Michael Swanwick as a writer of dazzling inventiveness. ![]() ![]() Then his first novel, In the Drift, was published as a prestigious Ace Special to resounding praise. ***'Michael Swanwick burst onto the science fiction scene in the early 1980s with stories that immediately started appearing on Nebula and Hugo ballots for the best of the year. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrapper bright. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £10.95. Dark grey front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. (First published in New York, USA by Arbour House in 1987). First impression of the first UK edition. ![]()
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