Take back plenty

484 pages

English language

Published Feb. 12, 1992 by Avon Books.

ISBN:
978-0-380-76395-5
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OCLC Number:
25065511

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3 stars (2 reviews)

It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha Jute isn't partying. She is in hiding from the law, penniless and about to lose her livelihood and her best friend, the space barge "Alice Liddell". Then, the intriguing Marco Metz offers her some money to take him to Plenty, and then the adventure begins.

Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction novel of the year and the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel of the year--the only book ever to win both prestigious British awards. (from Goodreads.com)

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2 stars

I just found it a mess, really. A host if unlikeable characters in a universe where things only seem to exist for plot convenience rather than making a coherent background. The main character has no real agency, just rolling from crisis to crisis while people explain the plot to her (well, whatever the plot is at that time, it changes without rhyme or reason) and the most interesting events seem to have happened in the background. No idea why this ended up in a Masterworks collection.

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  • English Science fiction