LETHE

by Tricia Sullivan

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Victor Gollancz, 1995 . Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. SF novel. Eighty years after the Gene Wars almost destroy Earth, a researcher falls through an interstellar gate to a seemingly Edenic planet. The inhabitants are descendants of refugees from the Wars, whose price for this paradise is to undergo a violent transformation when they reach adulthood. The secret colony is also the key to

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