6.4 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Publication date July 25, 2006 Publisher HarperCollins Awards James Tiptree Jr. Award | 3.2/5 Goodreads Language English Originally published 25 July 2006 ISBN 978-0-06-088235-8 Genres Novel, Alternate history | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cover artist Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Pages 440 pp (first edition, hardcover) Similar Shelley Jackson books, James Tiptree Jr Award winners, Speculative fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Half Life is the 2006 debut novel of American writer and artist Shelley Jackson. The novel presupposes an alternate history in which the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins, who eventually become a minority subculture.
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Overview
The book tells the story of a disenchanted conjoined twin named Nora Olney who plots to have her twin murdered.
Reception
Half Life received mixed-to-positive reviews; Newsweek called it "brilliant and funny," and The New York Times, while praising Jackson's ambition as "truly glorious," added that "All this razzle-dazzle, all the allusions, [and] the narrative loop-de-loops [get] a bit busy." It won the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction and fantasy.
References
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