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Cover art: Rafal Olbinski
Awards: 1993 Arthur C. Clarke Award
Blurb: “THIS IS A TALE OF MY FAMILY FROM LONG AGO WHEN THE WORLD SEEMED TO BE BREAKING OPEN ...'
In 1600 in a Jewish ghetto in Prague a 'golem' is brought to life to protect the inhabitants from attack by mobs that rise periodically to ravage and murder.
In the 21st century the story continues ...
In North America, scientist Shira Shipman joins forces with Yod, the world's most sophisticated cyborg, to guard her freetown, Tikva - a fragile modern ghetto in a land of rigidly controlled environmental corporate domes - from a gang of deadly intruders ...
'A powerful, deeply felt parable about the individual versus the state' - Cosmopolitan
'Body of Glass is much more than science fiction. It's a touching love story (several, actually) and a gripping adventure tale ... her best novel yet' - St Louis Post Dispatch
*Outstanding ... I have not read a more disturbing or moving novel about an artificial intelligence since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... it elevates its author to the pantheon of haute SF alongside Doris Lessing and Ursula Le Guin' - Martin Mulligan in the Financial Times
'A triumph of the imagination ..: a rich, complex tale so unique and so compelling it is simply impossible to put down' - Alice Hoffman”
ISBN 0-14-015602-X