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Shelter

by Susan Palwick
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An ambitious near-future SF novel of climate change, artificial intelligence, and human feeling.
The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs of his own daughter.
Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And the great storms of a changing climate have made literal shelter imperative.
When a cutting-edge, high-tech house, designed by a genius with a unique connection to Meredith, overcomes its programming to give shelter to a homeless man in a storm, from its closets emerge the revelations of a past too painful to remember.
In the world of Susan Palwick's Shelter, perception is about to meet reality, and reality has mud all over it. The truth won't make you happy, but it may just make you whole.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Publisher: Tor Publishing Group Edition: 1

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  • Release date: June 12, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9781429959650
  • Release date: June 12, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9781429959650
  • File size: 656 KB
  • Release date: June 12, 2007
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Fiction Science Fiction

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English

An ambitious near-future SF novel of climate change, artificial intelligence, and human feeling.
The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs of his own daughter.
Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And the great storms of a changing climate have made literal shelter imperative.
When a cutting-edge, high-tech house, designed by a genius with a unique connection to Meredith, overcomes its programming to give shelter to a homeless man in a storm, from its closets emerge the revelations of a past too painful to remember.
In the world of Susan Palwick's Shelter, perception is about to meet reality, and reality has mud all over it. The truth won't make you happy, but it may just make you whole.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Fiction Science Fiction
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