Agent: Jennifer Carlson, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner.
This work, set in the birthplace of America, proclaims that democracy is tenuous, and its themes will be deeply resonant for those concerned by present-day politics. Viola is as logical as she is petite, and easily holds her own alongside the men as they explore weird Ulithia and interact with corrupt government officials. The capricious regime of 2118 uses murderous public competitions to keep the population subjugated, and the oppressed are forced to wear large yellow buttons though the text predates Nazi Germany by decades, modern readers will find those connotations inescapable. Then they’re sent 200 years into the future. After Drayton breaks open a crystal vial, the dust inside it propels the foursome to a strange limbo called Ulithia, where they meet dancing shadow people. Bennett), The woman who invented dark fantasy. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 19 and has been called 'the woman who invented dark fantasy.
Clever teen Viola Trenmore is hanging out in 1918 Philadelphia in the company of her brother, Terence Trenmore, a wealthy, burly Irishman his friend Robert Drayton, a lawyer and Arnold Bertram, a hapless burglar. The Heads of Cerberus is a dystopian science fiction novel by Francis Stevens (pseudonym for Gertrude B. Gertrude Barrows Bennett (18831948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. This rediscovered 1919 classic by Stevens (the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1884–1948, who arguably invented dark fantasy) is an intriguing and political time-travel adventure.
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