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The swordswoman / Jessica Amanda Salmonson ; illustrated by Wendy Adrian Schultz.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Salmonson, J. A.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salmonson, Jessica Amanda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imaginary places--Fiction.
- Imaginary places.
- Imaginary wars and battles--Fiction.
- Imaginary wars and battles.
- Good and evil--Fiction.
- Good and evil.
- Martial arts fiction.
- Extraterrestrial beings--Fiction.
- Extraterrestrial beings.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Book club edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Tor, 1982.
- Summary:
- Erin Wyler, a young Earth woman who's dreamt of living a hero's life is a loner, going in and out of institutions her whole life and never finding any amount of happiness except in studying martial arts. During a kendo match, she kills her opponent but his wounds reflect a metal blade, not the bamboo stick she was using. An obsessed paramedic discovers that both she and her opponent have had dreams about the same world, only from opposite points of view. Erin dreams of being the rebel who kills an evil tyrant; her opponent dreamed of being that tyrant. In that alternate world, however, Erin's alter-ego Merilia is the one killed so forces present in both worlds conspire to bring Erin to Endsworld to fulfill Merilia's destiny.
- Notes:
- A Tom Doherty Associates book.
- Jacket painting by Shelley Shapiro.
- First printing has gutter code "M21" on page 245, indicates a printing in May 1982
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket. Has gutter code.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 152051
- OCLC:
- 13962589
- Publisher Number:
- 04806 Science Fiction Book Club
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