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Jan 1, 2001 · Despite what the title likely conjures up for you, McHugh’s Nekropolis is the story of a romance, with parallels to many classic romances. Hariba, a futuristic Cinderella, serves as an indentured servant in Morocco a couple hundred years from now.
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Nov 12, 2002 · Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things.
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Sep 1, 2001 · NEKROPOLIS. by Maureen F. McHugh ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 2001. Beautifully rendered, but banal and thin despite the distracting multiple first-person narrators. McHugh raises some... bookshelf. shop now. Medium-future love story from the author of Mission Child (1998), etc.
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Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever...
Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "jessed," the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things.
And there is no safe haven for a rebel servant and a runaway A.I. -- not even within the shunned, technology-barren bowels of the city of the dead.Hugo Award winner Maureen F. McHugh has...