- Paperback: 397 pages
- Publisher: Collins (8 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0586216901
- ISBN-13: 978-0586216903
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 994,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Marghe Taishan comes to Grenchstom's Planet - Jeep - in the hope of solving a biological puzzle. A mystery virus has killed all the male settlers and many of the women. Marghe has been immunized - but will she fall victim to the virus?
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A LETHAL VIRUS: A BIOLOGICAL ENIGMA
MARGHE: Xenobiologist and linguist, must return to the Company she fears if she is to use her skills for the last time to solve the biological puzzle of the planet Jeep – a mystery with deadly and far reaching implications.
DANNER: Security commander of Jeep, thrust into position by the virus that pervades the planet – the same virus that may imprison her on Jeep forever.
JEEP: Out of the diversity of its people and culture comes a mad Messiah, sweeping down from the icy north in a storm of violence that threatens to overwhelm Marghe, Danner and the peoples of Jeep.
“A wonderful science fiction novel, with a host of weird and outlandish developments that are nonetheless convincing and compelling – Nicola Griffith really puts you in the action, and you quickly find yourself believing it all, living it all”
TIM POWERS
“Read Nicola Griffith’s book – and keep an eye out for her name in the future”
VONDA N. McINTYRE
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Anthropological science fiction,
By Mikko Saari (Tampere, Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ammonite (Paperback)
Ammonite reminds me a lot of Sheri Tepper and Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a tale of Marghe, an anthropologist sent to work on the Company-owned planet Jeep. Jeep is inhabited by group of Company forces, the original colonists and a deadly virus that kills all men and quite a few women as well. There's no proven vaccine, either.
Marghe sets out to understand the world and the people who live in it. The mysteries of the virus and the colonists (if they're all women, where do the babies come from?) offer a tempting challenge to an anthropologist, despite the resistance from the Company commander. It's a good story. It's well written, beautiful as the planet it describes. Marghe's journey is packed with action, adventure, romance and exploration. For those seeking lesbian themes or strong female characters in science fiction, this is a must-read book, and I'd recommend Ammonite to anybody who likes science fiction with sociological or anthropological leanings.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Slow burning speculative fiction,
By Tracey Shellito "Tracey" (Lancashire, U K) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ammonite (Paperback)
Griffith's first novel is a tour de force science fiction tale of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances forced to become something new (and possibly better) and how they deal with that. Only peripherally a lesbian story, it has the familiar first contact, visiting alien planets and exploration of the same any Star Trek fan would expect while at the same time digging so much deeper beneath the surface of what make pioneers and what makes people tick and just how far we will all go to survive or salve our pride.
A thoughtful near perfect first novel, it richly deserves the accolades and awards lavished upon it. It also helps to redress the dearth of women science fiction or speculative fiction writers. More, please.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting SF,
By amazon@concretecow.fsnet.co.uk (Milton Keynes, Bucks) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ammonite (Mass Market Paperback)
This was quite an interesting book set on an alien world. In many ways it is a standard mystery thriller. Can Marghe solve the mystery and find a cure to the virus that may imprison her on the planet for the rest of her life.
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