L. Timmel Duchamp

Marq'ssan Cycle

1 - Alanya to Alanya (Mar-2005)
2 - Renegade (Apr-2006)
3 - Tsunami (Jan-2007)
4 - Blood in the Fruit (Dec-2007)
5 - Stretto (Jul-2008)

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  Love's Body: Dancing in Time
  

  • Aug-2004
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  Love’s Body, Dancing in Time offers five love stories by the critically acclaimed L. Timmel Duchamp, stories only she could tell. Carnal and queer, intricate and involved, they range from the heart-breaking Sturgeon Award finalist "Dance at the Edg...

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  Alanya to Alanya
  

  • Mar-2005
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  Marq'ssan Cycle - 1
  

  Seattle, February 2076. The Marq ssan bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world, and Professor Kay Zeldin joins Robert Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making rather than wri...

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  Renegade
  

  • Apr-2006
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  Marq'ssan Cycle - 2
  

  Renegade, the second of the five-novel Marq ssan Cycle, opens in August 2077 as the Pacific Northwest Free Zone, having survived the first year of its existence, faces both internal and external challenges. The US s Security Services has deployed a p...

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  Tsunami
  

  • Jan-2007
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  Marq'ssan Cycle - 3
  

  Tsunami, the gripping third volume of the five-novel Marq ssan Cycle, opens in early 2086, immediately after the signing of the Madrid Accords at the conclusion of the Global War. Many countries, including the US, have been devastated by war, and...

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  The Wiscon Chronicles: Volume 1
  

  • Aug-2007
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  L. Timmel Duchamp has assembled a collage of diverse materials to document the thirtieth anniversary of WisCon, which was a grand reunion of most of the convention's previous Guests of Honor. These include the transcript of Samuel R. Delany's intervi...

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  Blood in the Fruit
  

  • Dec-2007
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  Marq'ssan Cycle - 4
  

  Blood in the Fruit, the hard-hitting fourth volume of the five-novel Marq ssan Cycle, focuses sharp, analytical attention on human rights issues. The novel opens in October 2086. After ten years absence, the Marq ssan Fleet returns to Earth to determ...

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  Stretto
  

  • Jul-2008
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  Marq'ssan Cycle - 5
  

  Stretto, the grand finale of the Marq'ssan Cycle, weaves together the major threads of the Marq'ssan story and encourages readers, as Joan Haran says, ''to write beyond the ending.'' The novel, like the series as a whole, inquires ''Whose world is it...

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  Never at Home
  

  • May-2012
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  Never At Home is L. Timmel Duchamp's second collection. It includes stories previously published in the acclaimed Bending the Landscape and Paraspheres series and in Asimov's SF, as well as one hundred pages of previously unpublished work, all of the...

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  Missing Links and Secret Histories
  

  • Jun-2013
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  Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth century narrators, “Dear Reader,” really was? About Nancy Drew’s mother? Or what the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic “Fall of the House of Usher” wa...

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  The Waterdancer's World
  

  • Oct-2016
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  Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries, adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and daughter of the general commandi...

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  Chercher La Femme
  

  • Aug-2018
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  They named the planet La Femme and called it a paradise and refused to leave it. Now Julia 9561 is heading up the mission to retrieve the errant crew and establish meaningful Contact with the inhabitants. Are the inhabitants really all female, as the...

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  Quinn's Deal
  

  • Jan-2022
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  In the dog-eat-dog, deal-or-die future, desperate laborer Quinn makes the deal of a lifetime -- but is it enough?...

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  The Gift
  

  • Feb-2023
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  Florentine would flee the art planet Blue Downs with her gorgeous new lover, for a universe where Alain needn't pay a profound price to perform music--but obstacles to a happy union may prove more complex and subtle than Florentine can imagine...or o...

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