The Bones of Time
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Publisher Description
This is the first E-book edition of a now classic SF novel. The first print edition appeared in 1996.
PLOT:
Set in Hawaii and the Far East, The Bones of Time revolves around the secret of the preserved bones of the greatest of the old Hawaiian kings, Kamehameha.
Goonan interweaves two story lines. Cen, a mathematician who falls in love with Princess Kaiulani, the last Hawaiian princess, works desperately to join her by solving the riddle of time travel; and Lynn, a young woman who rescues the only surviving clone of Kamehameha.
Praise for THE BONES OF TIME:
."Time travel, Kamehameha's clone and electric Tibet are all conjoined in this marvelous novel. With THE BONES OF TIME, Kathleen Ann Goonan clearly establishes herself as the best writer to enter the field in the 1990's."
- Lucious Sheppard.
"This is science fiction being the best it can possibly be."
- Karen Joy Fowler
". . . a satisfying and richly speculative novel"
- Publisher's Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Goonan, who immediately established herself as a major SF author with Queen City Jazz (1994), again melds an original variety of elements into a satisfying and richly speculative novel. In near-future Hawaii, the corporation Interspace is exploiting the local Asian population as cheap labor and as subjects for experimental biological nanotechnology. Meanwhile, the rival Homeland Movement seeks to use technology for its own, nationalistic purposes. Interrelated narratives depict the adventures of Lynn Oshima--a geneticist who rescues a clone of King Kamehameha, who united the Hawaiian people hundreds of years earlier--and of Cen Kalakaua, a young man of royal Hawaiian blood whose vision of Princess Kaiulani, heir to the Hawaiian throne, drives him to explore the mysteries of both time and space. In vivid prose, Goonan combines well-knit plotting, exotic settings (from Victorian England to a future Dalai Lama's Himalayan retreat), believable characters and extrapolations concerning science and consciousness that will revive even the jaded SF reader's sense of wonder.
