Synopses & Reviews
Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy
Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat household. In the near future, when political and social conservatism dominate society, Morgan inherits a big, century-old mansion in a prairie city and moves there to rebuild her life. She fills the house with sexual misfits and political outcasts, in a sense, orphans like herself. But the final tenant is one she never could have imagined: an alien child.
Review
"As brilliant as William Gibson, as complex as Gene Wolfe, with a humanity and passion all her own, Candas Jane Dorsey isn't just a comer, she's a winner."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
“This tale of growth and discovery by the author of Black Wine pays tribute to such SF classics as Robert Heinleins Stranger in a Strange Land and the philosophical novels of Theodore Sturgeon.” -Library Journal
“Of the aliens outside Earths atmosphere, all any of us can do is guess. Of the aliens among us, we can do far more than we have to understand and accept. Authors have made an attempt at bridging that gap; few have done it as perceptively and deftly as Candas Jane Dorsey has in this ground-breaking novel. . . . Readers will get the best portrayal of bisexuals ever to come to print. Certainly, it is a landmark in the literary treatment of this group. . . . A fresh look at the nature of what may be out there and those that are already among us? Its a huge task to ask of a novel or a novelist, but A Paradigm of Earth pulls it off in a dazzling, entrancing fashion. And, somehow, Dorsey gives off the impression that it is all so easy. Isnt that a definition of genius?”—SFSite.com
Synopsis
Candas Jane Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a household of political outcasts in a midwestern Canadian city. In this not too distant future, political and social conservatism has come to dominate society. That a dozen or more humanoid alien infants have been brought to Earth to be given into the care of major Earth governments is stunning yet distant news -- until one comes to live in the house, with all the attendant government surveillance.
About the Author
Candas Jane Dorsey lives in Edmonton, Alberta.