The Cassini Division
Ken MacLeod
The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~6.4 hr
Mission Child
by Maureen F. McHugh (1998)
About this book
A stunning and provocative spiritual odyssey reminiscent of the best work of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin, MISSION CHILD is a powerful fable, a stirring adventure, and a profoundly moving portrait of a lost woman in search of an identity as she walks the narrow fault line dividing female and male, child and adult, dark reality and illuminated dream.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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