Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
Ammonite, Nicola Griffith
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Ammonite

Author: Nicola Griffith

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Unabridged: 13 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP.

The planet's deadly virus had killed most of the original colonists—and changed the rest irrevocably. Centuries after the colony had lost touch with the rest of humanity, the Company returned to exploit GP, and its forces found themselves fighting for their lives. Afraid of spreading the virus, the Company had left its remaining employees in place, afraid and isolated from the natives.

Then anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrived on GP, sent to test a new vaccine against the virus. As she risked death to uncover the natives' biological secret, she found that she, too, was changing, and realized that not only had she found a home on GP—she herself carried the seeds of its destruction . . .

About Nicola Griffith

Nicola Griffith is the multiple-award-winning author of several novels, including Hild, and a memoir. A native of Yorkshire, England-now a dual US/UK citizen-she is a onetime self-defense instructor who turned to writing full-time upon being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She lives with her wife, the writer Kelley Eskridge, in Seattle.


Reviews

Goodreads review by BJ

What a wonderful book! I’m having trouble collecting my thoughts on this one, so thought I’d let the author speak for herself. The following quotations are from a wise and funny interview Nicola Griffith gave shortly after the novel's release, back in the 90s: On the absence of men: “I do think the bo......more

Goodreads review by Bryn

I enjoyed this from first page to last, and it’s different enough for a five. I like its attitudes: for one, how it takes a spanner to our sacred biology. Here a virus enhances our senses and by accident grants us more control over the body. Bring it on. The story is of an anthropologist who learns......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

On my way to work through all the nominations for SF awards throughout the years, I finally ran into this little feminist speculative gem from the early '90s. Upon finishing it, I'm struck by a few notions that feel rather obvious to me but maybe aren't for angry feminists in the SF field before the......more