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Winner of the
Lambda Literary Award,
Best Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Daughters Of An Emerald Dusk
Katherine V. Forrest
Publisher: Alyson Publications (April 2005)
ISBN-13: 978-1555838232
"Do I sense the writing of a third book in this
wonderful series? I sure hope so!"-She magazine on Daughters of an
Amber Noon
Late in the twenty-second century, 4,000 women escape
the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonize the planet of
Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of
a Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2000 novel, Daughters
of an Amber Noon, told the story of the women left behind on Earth.
Now she returns to Maternas at last. Fifty years have passed, and the
first generation born on Maternas has reached maturity. But their
vision of a perfect world is very different from the vision of the
founders of the Maternas colony.
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
Ever since Forrest's Daughters of a Coral Dawn (1984),
its fans have anticipated sequels to that lesbian sf novel set some
200 years from now. One finally arrived in Daughters of an Amber Noon
(2002), and this book continues the story. For newcomers and faded
memories, Forrest provides highlights of the backstory: the departure
of 4,144 members of the sisterhood Unity to make a home away from an
Earth ravaged by resource depletion and violence in the twenty-first
century, and the establishment of a colony in Death Valley by the
remaining 2,011 members. Now the heroines of Amber Noon journey by
space shuttle to the Unity colonists' new home on the planet Maternas
and reunite with their birth family for the first time in the six
years since the colonizers set out. The compelling tale unfolds via
first-person accounts in the journals of Minerva, Olympia, and Joss,
and includes piercingly poignant reunions, a wrenching leave-taking,
and a suspenseful return to the ultimate mother. Whitney Scott
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