Friday
Friday is a secret courier and ardent lover. Employed by a man she only knows of as "Boss", she is given the most awkward and dangerous cases, which take her from New Zealand to Canada, and through the new States of America's disunion, all the way out into the stars and the new colony of Botany Bay. Thrust into one calamity after another, she uses her enhanced wits and very many skills to evade, seduce or even kill her way out of any sticky situation she finds herself in. For she is both superior and inferior to the average human. As an AP--artificial person--the best humanity has to offer has been written into Friday's DNA. Yet she is often treated like a second-class citizen--if she were ever able to claim citizenship. Her mother was the test tube and her father the knife, as the saying goes, so she has less rights than the biologically-born human, and no soul, according to the church.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Year
- 1982
- ISBN-13
- 9780450055492
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- Identity and personhoodGenetic engineeringFemale empowerment
Awards
- Hugo Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1983)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1983)
- Prometheus AwardShortlisted(1983)
- Nebula Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1982)
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- Stranger in a Strange Land
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- To Sail Beyond the Sunset
- Glory Road
- Have Space Suit — Will Travel
- For Us, the Living
- Stranger in a Strange Land [Expanded Edition]
- The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
- The Number of the Beast
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