The Jupiter Possums
Published on 3. May 2026
Book
Hardback
116 pages
979-8-2958-9371-1 (ISBN)
Description
On the first anniversary of her husband's freak death by lightning, Tabitha Barker sits in her quiet East Anaheim backyard, drowning her loneliness in red wine. A sudden, spectacular meteor shower lights up the 1985 California sky, signaling a bizarre global event that transforms common possums into four-foot-tall, bipedal, intelligent beings. Among them is Juniper, a possum Tabitha befriended, who has been inhabited by both a soul from Jupiter and the lingering ghost of her late husband. As the world grapples with this surreal alien contact, Tabitha finds herself falling in love with the creature who wears her husband's flannel shirts and shares his memories of 80s sci-fi movies. Their domestic bliss is threatened by a society on the brink of collapse and a neighbor, Augusta Crabwise, who views the evolution as a demonic infestation that must be stopped! From Marsena Shane, the author of The Martian Coal Miner, comes The Jupiter Possums, Book Three of her Romantic Planets science fiction romance series for all ages, and it is wild!
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-2958-9371-1 (9798295893711)
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A Southern California girl from the Garden Grove suburbs who began her obsession with creative writing as a student in her elementary school circa 1970s, Marsena Shane began her literary career as soon as she graduated high school and gained her first job, a local book store clerk, before a women's fitness tutor introduced her to a New York publisher at Critic's Choice Paperbacks who published her first novella in mass market paperback, Sweet Dreams, Lady Moon. She became both a ghost writer and a work-for-hire, publishing her own series of fitness self-help books soon after, starting with Great Legs in Six Weeks (1988) which became The Easy Way to Great Legs, the '90s heart health book Your Heart Belongs to You, as well as Nancy: A Reagan Biography (formerly Nancy: Biography of the First Lady). Her works of fiction include June Park, The Martian Coal Miner, and The Jupiter Possums, all part of her Romantic Planets science fiction/romance series. Currently, Ms. Shane now lives in Northern California with her many beloved cats, a canary, resident wild possums, and a bearded dragon. She is also working on further stories for Romantic Planets.