A science fiction tale of global warfare and the people who profit from it, Mindscape was Hairston's extraordinary debut novel, nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the Otherwise Award.
The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to end the internal wars.
When the treaty's architect is assassinated, her protegee, Elleni, a talented renegade and one of the few able to negotiate the Barrier, is forced to take up her mantle.
Now Elleni and a motley crew of allies risk their lives to make the treaty work.
Can they repair their fractured world before the Barrier devours them completely?
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Interest Age: From 18 years
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
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Height: 214 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
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978-1-250-80876-9 (9781250808769)
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Andrea Hairston ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since. She is a novelist, poet, playwright, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. She is the author of Mindscape, a Carl Brandon Award winner and finalist for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise Awards; Archangels of Funk, shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction; Will Do Magic for Small Change, a New York Times Editor's pick and finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Otherwise Awards; Redwood and Wildfire, a Washington Post Best Book of 2022, Otherwise and Carl Brandon Award winner; and Master of Poisons on the Kirkus Reviews 2020 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Andrea bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light and breath, and the occasional shooting star.
