It's jang to be wild and sexy and reckless and teen-age.
It's jang to do daredevil tricks and even get killed a few times... you could always come alive again.
It's jang to change your body, to switch your sex, to do anything you want to keep up with the crowd.
But
there comes a time when you begin to think about serious things, to
want to do something valid. And that's when you find out there are
rules beyond the rules and that the world is something else than all
they'd taught you.
It's the brilliant author of THE BIRTHGRAVE in a strikingly different style and a startlingly different sf novel.
Tanith Lee (1947-2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). She also wrote under the pseudonym Esther Garber.
