The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy (May 1988)
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Overview: An archaeologist with a strange power risks death to unlock the secret of the Mayans
When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows. A famous scientist with a reputation for eccentricity, she carries a strange secret. Where others see nothing but dirt and bones and fragments of pottery, Elizabeth sees shades of the men and women who walked this ground thousands of years before. She can speak to the past—and the past is beginning to speak back.
As Elizabeth communes with ghosts, the daughter she abandoned flies to Mexico hoping for a reunion. She finds a mother embroiled in the supernatural, on a quest for the true reason for the Mayans’ disappearance. To dig up the truth, the archaeologist who talks to the dead must learn a far more difficult skill: speaking to her daughter.
Winner of the 1988 Nebula Award.
Genre: Fiction, Literary Fantasy
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Requirements: ePUB Reader | 400 Kb
Overview: An archaeologist with a strange power risks death to unlock the secret of the Mayans
When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows. A famous scientist with a reputation for eccentricity, she carries a strange secret. Where others see nothing but dirt and bones and fragments of pottery, Elizabeth sees shades of the men and women who walked this ground thousands of years before. She can speak to the past—and the past is beginning to speak back.
As Elizabeth communes with ghosts, the daughter she abandoned flies to Mexico hoping for a reunion. She finds a mother embroiled in the supernatural, on a quest for the true reason for the Mayans’ disappearance. To dig up the truth, the archaeologist who talks to the dead must learn a far more difficult skill: speaking to her daughter.
Winner of the 1988 Nebula Award.
Genre: Fiction, Literary Fantasy
"A wonderful and literate exploration of the dark moment when myth and science meet." ~Samuel R. Delany
"Murphy’s sharp behavioural observation, her rich Mayan background, and the revolving door of fantasy and reality honourably recall the novels of Margaret Atwood." ~Publishers Weekly
"The Falling Woman is among those few novels that all readers should enjoy, could enjoy, but for genre readers especially it qualifies easily as a must-read. In fact, the novel was the toast of the town - well, the field - when published originally ~25 years ago. I just now re-read it, and the novel remains as vibrant today as it did then. Enjoy this phenomenally excellent story." ~ephemeral
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