The Fresco
Benita Alvarez, a downtrodden Hispanic woman, is chosen by alien envoys to be the Intermediary in their bid to get humankind to join an interstellar federation of peaceable races who practise Neighbourliness and strive to live ethical and moral lives. But other alien races have their own plans for the verdant, over-populated planet and they have chosen their own contact: a down-and-dirty government Senator. They don't want mankind to join the Federation, though: they just want hunting rights of Earth — hunting rights on man.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harper Voyager
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN-13
- 9780575072886
- Genre
- Science FictionFiction
- Topics
- First contact with aliensDomestic abuse and empowermentEnvironmentalism and overpopulation
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2001)
Other awarded books from Sheri S. Tepper
- Beauty
- Gibbon's Decline and Fall
- Grass
- The Family Tree
- The Margarets
- The Waters Rising
- A Plague of Angels
- After Long Silence
- Jinian Star-Eye
- Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore
- Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse
- Raising the Stones
- Shadow's End
- Sideshow
- Singer from the Sea
- Six Moon Dance
- The Awakeners
- The Gate to Women's Country
- The Song of Mavin Manyshaped
- The Visitor
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