A Double Shadow

by Frederick Turner

A TERRAFORMED PLANETMan had kindled Mars an extra sun, had brought ice and frozen air from the rings of Saturn, had given a dead world life. But thousands of years on the terraformed planet had changed man, too. These proud warriors, winged and armed for the status-war that will shape their planets destiny, are human but no longer of Earth...

Genres: Science Fiction

252 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1978

About the author

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Frederick Turner was born in Northamptonshire, England, in 1943. After spending several years in central Africa, where his parents, the anthropologists Victor W. and Edith L. B. Turner, were conducting field research, Frederick Turner was educated at the University of Oxford (1962-67), where he obtained the degrees of B.A., M.A., and B.Litt. (equivalent to a PhD) in English Language and Literature. He was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1977.
He is presently Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. From 1978-82 he was editor of The Kenyon Review.

Reviews

[Mike]

A novel about a novel. Mars Terraformer pioneer writes a novel about a future terraformed Mars. There is not one character that is worth caring about or even likeable. A real piece o' junk.

[Justin Howe]

A lost classic of New Wave SF? Fans of Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Samuel Delaney, and M. John Harrison will enjoy this.

[Clay]

The "literature" from the speculative fiction phase of the 70's has not aged well.