Map of Power
Tess Williams
Arrow Books, 1996, Australia
ISBN:0091833280
Three outsiders share a destiny... Proud Cheela is heart of the South Tribe, existing amid the stark beauty of Antarctica. She shares Mythmaker's visions of change, but Old Woman warns her that hunters fight change more than they fight death.
West Australian Morgan Welwyn is a heretic, exiled for his love of Dark Time mech 'n tech. He discovers a secret in an old observatory and makes the mistake of sharing it.
Kass is Sub-Commander of an abandoned biosphere orbiting the earth. Despite her fear of insanity, she carries out forbidden mind experiments. Experiments which cost her dearly.
Can this unlikely trio prevent their peoples repeating the devastating mistakes of the twenty-first century? Can they read the Map of Power?
A compelling and utterly plausible vision of the future from an extraordinary new writer.
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