Mother of Plenty - Softcover

Greenland, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380787768 ISBN 13: 9780380787760

Publisher: Avon Books, 1998

Synopsis

Captain Tabitha Jute is past the point of no return. Stripped of her command and her dignity, she has lost control of the huge alien starship called Plenty, and forefeited the devotion of the myriad lifeforms traveling with her in its dingy caverns and labyrinthine corridors. Now they all lie captive beneath the glowering red twin stars of Capella, awaiting the pleasure of the parasitic Guardinas.

For the Guardians, who once gave Plenty to humanity, are now scheming with high-tech tyrants called the Seraphim. And Captain Jute and her followers are caught in the middle of a terrifying experiment in which the human race is the raw material. Her only option is to risk it all on one last headlong flight into the heart of a dying star system in a desperate attempt to uncover the final secrets of the Capellans.

And as the Guardians will soon learn, Tabitha Jute doesnt want mauch . . .she only wants Plenty.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

MOTHER OF PLENTY

Tabitha Jute has matured. Near-death experiences do that to you.

When she stole the gargantuan starship Plenty she had no idea what it would come to mean – an entire alien world on her shoulders, civilisations to protect from ravages of war. Now, however, the cosmic tides have turned. Friends she once held dear are holding her captive beneath the bloated stars of Capella. As new war looms she’s become surplus to requirement.

It’s not all gloom, though. She’s been reunited with her best friend Alice, the virtual persona of her long-lost ship. And they won’t give in without a fight. Tabitha plans to hurl herself into the dying star system, risk everything to learn the final secrets of the mysterious Capellans.

For if life is no longer a game, there are no longer any rules to play by. And, mature or not, Tabitha Jute likes it that way...

Praise for the Tabitha Jute trilogy:

“One of the most compulsive space spectaculars in years”
THE TIMES

“Cyberspace opera at its sparkling best”
NEW SCIENTIST

“High-octane interstellar swashbuckling”
TIME OUT

“A heroine so real she even keeps tampons in her handbag”
THE FACE

About the Author:

Award winning Colin Greenland was born in Dover in 1954 and wrote his first book, about a fire-engine that laid an egg, at the age of five. Since then he has written The Hour of the Thin Ox, which the Guardian said ‘could be a classic’; and its successor, Other Voices, written to a soundtrack of the Cure, Dead Can Dance, New Order and the Cocteau Twins, which was hailed as ‘a short, sharp and moving tale with an acrid and lingering aftertaste.’ Guardian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380787768
• ISBN 13: 9780380787760
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 480