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Mary Caraker
Books in Order: 6 titles
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Tales of the Lumipaikka
- Jan-1999
- / General Fiction
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In the space-faring future, it is always winter in thelumipaikka (snowland) of the planet Jaspre. Here, a colony of Finns have adopted ancient practices in order to survive. Old myths again have relevance as the artificial satellite, Argus, transfor...
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Women of the Kalevala
- Jan-1997
- / General Fiction
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Though the voices of women in th eKalevala are muted, their roles are important. Stolen brides, lonely lives on isolated farms-those voices clamor to be heard. Wives, sisters, and daughters have their own stories, often more poignant than those of th...
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The Faces of Ceti
- Mar-1991
- / Fantasy
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Teenage Maya and the other colonists on the planet Ceti try to resist being taken over by another hostile Earth colony on a neighboring world, while debating how to treat the native, possibly intelligent creatures called hlur....
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The Snows of Jaspre
- Mar-1989
- / Science Fiction
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Morgan Farraday, an administrator from Earth, becomes involved in the destiny of the planet Jaspre when her daughter Dee meets the charismatic Anders Ahlwen, whose followers receive psychic powers and a transcendent spiritual reality from the artific...
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Seven Worlds
- Sep-1986
- / Fantasy
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Though couched as a novel, really more like a sequence of connected short stories. Following the career of a teacher who seeks her work out among far flung colonies and alien planets, each chapter features a new world, with distinct cultures and pitf...