The Silent City [Paperback]

Elisabeth Vonarburg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 27, 2002

Built as a refuge from a war-ravaged world outside, THE SILENT CITY is the final stronghold of science and knowledge. A self-perpetuating technology maintains the City in which only a handful of humans survive, despite rejuvenation treatments and cybernetics. Into this doomed world Elisa is born, child of her father's obsession with creating a human form with the ability to self-heal. Elisa devotes herself to her father's cause...until she begins to see the truth about the City and its occupants. Rebelling against her father/lover, Elisa discovers her unique gift for changing herself and the world around her. But time is running out. The human race is threatened by a virus that prevents the conception of male babies -- and women bear the blame. Elisa must determine her future...and the future of humanity.

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"...maturity too seldom encountered in Sci-fi: a metamorphic journey into disturbing possibilities of gender, social order and genetic science..." --William Gibson

"Informed with a maturity of feeling too seldom encountered in science fiction: a metamorphic journey into disturbing possibilities of gender, social order and genetic science..." - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer - --William Gibson

About the Author

Elisabeth Vonarburg lives in Chicoutimi, Quebec. She has published numerous SF stories and has worked tirelessly to encourage the genre in Canada. She has attended many SF conventions in Canada, the United States and Europe, and organized international conventions of SF writers. She has received various prizes for her work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Tesseract Books; 1 edition (November 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0888782772
• ISBN-13: 978-0888782779
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,843,881 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Among the most dystopian of futures..., April 4, 2000

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This review is from: The Silent City (Mass Market Paperback)

Vornarburg paints a bleak picture of the future where humanity is divided into those who have locked themselves in the City and those who crudely survive outside it. Humanity is dying on both sides of the City walls. An aging scientist in the City creates a young girl with very special powers to rejuvenate humanity. But is she the salvation of the city or of the barbarians outside...

Vornarburg creates a very dark mood without the fancy glitz of high tech. (Think Neuromancer without the fancy cyberspace cowboys jacking in and out. The mood feels more like PKDick than WGibson.) This book is more an intense drama and almost devoid of any real action. Nevertheless, the concepts are very intriguing.