The house gun - Nadine Gordimer sci-fi Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse

Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural—but now it’s really hitting close to home

unitary intelligences made up of millions of minds

Eve must look to her own self-sufficiency

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Faith's fragile sense of her identity is threatened

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