Tasman is born into a world populated by two-headed bicephalic "twins" who share one body. Alone, she struggles for acceptance and becomes the unwitting key to the Earth’s salvation, in a poetic and apocalyptic vision of the future where technology exists as a mere remnant of a destroyed world, conjoined twins are the norm and the orbit of the moon is decaying.
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"I will read a story this good on any pretext or none at all: prose as polished and beautiful as fine poetry, characters absolutely unlike anyone you ever knew but unmistakably real and alive." - Spider Robinson -
"One of the most unique writers I’ve ever read... Spears writes beautifully and has constructed a richly developed society." - Fred Cleaver, The Denver Post -
"I have no hesitation placing Spears next to Le Guin, one of the most literate ... of science fiction writers." - The Edmonton Journal -
"One of the most unique writers I’ve ever read... Spears writes beautifully and has constructed a richly developed society." - Fred Cleaver, The Denver Post -
"I have no hesitation placing Spears next to Le Guin, one of the most literate ... of science fiction writers." - The Edmonton Journal -
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Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art, and the University of Copenhagen. As an artist she has held over 75 solo exhibitions and has illustrated numerous books and articles. As an author she has published 7 collections of poetry as well as the Moonfall Trilogy (which is comprised of Moonfall, The Children of Atwar and The Taming).
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Enraptured by Moonfall,
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Heather Spears is a very complicated and disturbing writer, artist and human being. Her "other" career (as an artist) has often been to draw sketches of children in situations of great trauma such as at birth or with facial deformities or the Palestinian children of the Intifada ... maimed, wounded and hospitalized, often fatally. Moonfall is not exactly a book. It is a genre of its own, part poetry, part dream, part science fiction, part prayer ... this small book, first of a trilogy, is an intuitive comment about the direction in which the world is heading. As such it is a remarkable testimony to Spears' com/passionate belief in the ability of humans to care for one another above all else. This is also the book's eloquent message, healing and teaching. Every person in the story except one is a conjoined twin. The characters reveal an empathy and connection with one another which is quite extraordinary, although most fear and reject Tasman, the singleton. Spears' language is metaphor. One almost feels as if one is thinking or feeling the book rather than reading it. But really, to experience Moonfall is to transport yourself to a place beyond words. I highly recommend this book. I found it enrapturing.
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Contains some nice weirdness and thoughts.,
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An unusually creative and strangely unsettling book, Moonfall takes place in a world populated entirely by conjoined twins except for the main character. Spears's perspective of such a sociaty is interesting and the writing is very clear and well done. Although not classic science-fiction, Moonfall is enjoyable and worth reading.
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