Polymorph - Softcover

Westerfeld, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451456602 ISBN 13: 9780451456601

Publisher: Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

A woman gifted with the ability to change her race and gender is shocked to discover a fellow "polymorph" in the New York City of the future and even more astonished to learn of his plan for global domination. Original.

About this title

From the Author

This novel is about identity, power, and software.
My protagonist springs from the landscape of New York. She is a chameleon in a city textured with layers of graffitti, legacies of immigrant influences, overlapping strata of big money and extreme poverty. A place where only a polymorph makes sense. At first she lives in anonymity, freely crossing the tribal boundaries of class, race, and sexuality. But when she fleetingly encounters another polymorph, she realizes that a "tribe" of her own exists. The novel recounts her search for this invisible tribe, a quest that illuminates the tenuousness of social and sexual identity in an age of information technology. For more about the book, check out www.Penguin.com, which will have an interview with me, to be posted 11/24 or so. And here's a quote from author Melissa Scott that I think hits the nail on the head: "Cyberpunk with a literal twist, and an awareness of the interplay of class, race, and status that gives a new edge to the action."

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451456602
• ISBN 13: 9780451456601
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288