Queen City Jazz Tapa dura - 1994

In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Verity has been raised, an orphan, in a tiny Shaker revival community where all are forbidden contact with the Enlivened Cities. Yet as she grows up on the isolated farm, she is often drawn to the City of Dayton, abandoned nearby, and to its self-contained and still-functioning library. Her happy life is suddenly destroyed when the Shakers, in spite of their precautions, contract a nanotech plague that possesses them. Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot by a crazed elder.And so Verity, with her dog Cairo - and the body of Blaze wrapped in a nanotech cocoon - sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a place of legend, walled off from the rest of the world, where huge bio-engineered bees carry information through the streets and enormous nanotech flowers burst from the tops of strange buildings. It is the place where Blaze… Leer más

NY: TOR, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. VeryGood/VeryGood. 5.5"x8.5" 416 pgs. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Light soil spots inside boards. X-library w/graphics, unclipped DJ. In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Verity has been raised, an orphan, in a tiny Shaker revival community where all are forbidden contact with the Enlivened Cities. Yet as she grows up on the isolated farm, she is often drawn to the City of Dayton, abandoned nearby, and to its self-contained and still-functioning library. Her happy life is suddenly destroyed when the Shakers, in spite of their precautions, contract a nanotech plague that possesses them. Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot by a crazed elder. And so Verity, with her dog Cairo—and the body of Blaze wrapped in a nanotech cocoon—sets off on on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a… Leer más

Tor Books. Hardcover. 0312856784 HC/DJ First Edition 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Ex Library with usual markings. DJ has light wear - in Mylar taped to boards and has not been clipped - priced $23.95 . Fair.

Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tor Books, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tor Books, 1994. hardcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. Please note our copy has a plastic coating on the cover.

A postmodern speculative fiction on American contributions to the arts--jazz, comics, abstract expressionism, and literature--embodied by Verity's quest for her origin."An unforgettable vision of America transfigured by a new and utterly apocalyptic technology." -- William GIbson"In the hands of Kathleen Ann Goonan, the science of science fiction becomes something lyrical and vividly human, and the intricately imagined future she presents is thus rendered completely plausible and poignant in the extreme. Queen City Jazz is hands down the best first novel I've read in the genre in the past ten years." --Lucius ShepardThis impressive first novel by an experienced story writer combines hallucinogenic visions, historical personae and an original futuristic dystopia. Young Verity has been raised by a reconstructionist Shaker group that bases its religion on the American cult that banned sex and believed in ``simple'' virtues. The adolescent has strange powers and mysterious compulsions that cause her to… Leer más

Tor Books, 1994-11. Hardcover. Used: Good.