Moonfall

Moonfall Trilogy #1

by Heather Spears

Tasman is born into a world populated by two-headed bicephalic "twins" who share one body. Alone, she struggles for acceptance and becomes the unwitting key to the Earth's salvation, in a poetic and apocalyptic vision of the future where technology exists as a mere remnant of a destroyed world, conjoined twins are the norm and the orbit of the moon is decaying.

Genres: Science Fiction

239 pages, Paperback

First published January 14, 1991

About the author

Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She is divorced and has 4 children. She has lived in Denmark since 1962. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 5 novels. The Creative Eye (illustrated edition 2012), is the first of a series on visual perception. She has 3 books of drawings: Drawn from the Fire (1989) Massacre (1990); and Line by Line (2002). Drawings from the Newborn (1986), The Panum Poems (96) and Required Reading (2000) contain both poems and full-page drawings. Her latest collection of poetry is I can still draw (2008). She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specialising in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.

Reviews

[Lynda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting linguistic take on how people with two heads would handle talking about themselves. The post-holocaust scenario felt a little tired to me, personally. I found the style hard to sink into, as well. But I have the second book in the series and will read it, too.