✦ LIBER ✦

The Heads of Cerberus

✍ Scribed by Francis Stevens; Naomi Alderman

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group;The Modern Library
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 293 KB
Edition: Modern Library trade paperback edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1984854410

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twenty-second-century society where the winner takes all, a precursor to The Hunger Games by one of the genre's first major female writers--with an introduction by Naomi Alderman, New York Times bestselling author of The Power and _Disobedience
_
Philadelphia, 1918: Three friends--brave, confident Viola Trenmore, clever but shy Robert Drayton, and Viola's strong and hot-tempered brother, Terry--discover a mysterious powder that transports them two hundred years into the future. The Philadelphia of 2118 is no longer a bustling metropolis but instead a completely isolated city recovering from an unknown disaster. Citizens are issued identification tags instead of having names, and society is split between a wealthy, powerful minority and a downtrodden lower class. The position of supreme authority is held by a woman, and once a year she oversees competitions to the...

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The Heads of Cerberus

✍ Francis Stevens 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Aegitas 🌐 English ⚖ 118 KB 👁 1 views

*The Heads of Cerberus* is a science fiction novel by American writer Francis Stevens. It was first published in book form in 1952 by Polaris Press in an edition of 1,563 copies. It was the first book published by Polaris Press. The novel was originally serialized in the pulp magazine *The Thrill Bo

The Heads of Cerberus

✍ Naomi Alderman; Francis Stevens 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Random House Publishing Group; The Modern Library 🌐 en-US ⚖ 293 KB

Philadelphia, 1918: Three friends--brave, confident Viola Trenmore, clever but shy Robert Drayton, and Viola's strong and hot-tempered brother, Terry--discover a mysterious powder that transports them two hundred years into the future. The Philadelphia of 2118 is no longer a bustling metropolis but

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

✍ Gene Wolfe 📂 Fiction 📅 1972 🏛 Orb Books;Tom Doherty Associates Book 🌐 English ⚖ 189 KB

Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's *The Fifth Head of Cerberus* is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers. Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in an et

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

✍ Gene Wolfe 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 185 KB

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

✍ Gene Wolfe 📂 Fiction 📅 1972 🏛 ePubLibre 🌐 English ⚖ 181 KB

On the twin colony planets of Saintes Anne and Croix, civilization is a mix of the archaic and the futuristic, with slavery and advanced science co-existing. Were the shapeshifting alien inhabitants of Sainte Anne exterminated by the colonists, or did they kill the humans and adopt their identity?

The Fifth Head of Cerberus

✍ Gene Wolfe 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Tom Doherty Associates 🌐 English ⚖ 168 KB

Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Gene Wolfe's _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ is a universally acknowledged masterpiece of science fiction by one of the field's most brilliant writers. Far out from Earth, two sister planets, Saint Anne and Saint Croix, circle each other in a