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false <![CDATA[The Margarets]]> 89582 7 The Margarets marks the long-awaited return of one of the most respected authors in the sf community; a writer who has earned accolades and the admiration of every true aficionado of bold, brilliant, risk-taking speculative fiction. Sheri S. Tepper dazzles yet again with a powerful tale of ingenious survival and strange destiny. The only human child living in a human work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little Margaret Bain has devised a system for keeping the suffocating demons of boredom and loneliness at bay: She invents six imaginary companions, each an extension of her own personality, to play with. When the unproductive Phobos project is shut down, and after Margaret is forced to return to Earth with her parents, the child's other selves are lost to her. But they are not gone. Left behind, each one flourishes—refining its own persona, acquiring its own history—before ultimately dispersing to far-flung destinations throughout the universe. On a near-barren homeworld denuded by thoughtless-ness and chemistry, Margaret grows to adulthood and marries, despite the seemingly utter hopelessness of humanity's future. The Earth is so impoverished that its inhabitants must import water and other basic necessities of life—trading the only viable product the planet has left to offer . . . slaves. The time will come when Margaret must leave this world as well, expelled as part of a desperate survival plan millennia in the making—an astonishing scheme that will require her to gather together the many Margarets who are now scattered throughout the galaxy. The creator of the Margarets must now bring all her selves home . . . or watch her race perish. 822876 2007 The Margarets total:240|5:57|4:98|3:62|2:18|1:5| 240 904 372 55 3 2 false false Sun Dec 28 10:23:18 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 15:37:06 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:23:18 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 12:52:15 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 11:40:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 08:57:41 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 09:07:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 19:42:51 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 19:45:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false true Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 20:38:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 20:59:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 19:21:08 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 23:21:14 -0800 2009
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There's a review here that won't spoil you in advance unless you read it at the same time as you're reading the book. One asp...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 14 08:10:13 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 15 14:00:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 27 19:44:54 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 12:46:00 -0700 2008 Margaret is the only child on Phobo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 15:56:58 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 14:33:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 17 13:43:55 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 23 16:01:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 19:14:45 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 19:35:16 -0800 2008
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Margaret is a queen, a simple farmwife, a spy, a slave, a seer, a soldier and a herbalist. She has s...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 19:27:12 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 19:30:25 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:32:51 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 15:34:43 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89582