End of Fame (Discovery) - Softcover
No one was more revered by the Kanalist movement than the fugitive playwright and actor, Evan Larkspur. Now the Column dictators decide that Larkspur -- or the actor Larkspur is currently pretending to be -- will be the perfect spy for them to send against none other than . . . Evan Larkspur. On the decadent waterworld Venezia, Larkspur the spy auditions for and wins the leading role in the play of Larkspur the pretender. And as the spy plays his parts, onstage and off, he begins to wonder which is truly the leader returned and which the deluded imposter. For there can only be one Evan Larkspur . . . or can there?
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Once in a while an editor finds a book that's fun to read for the first time, fun to read for the second time, fun to edit, and fun to work on in all the other ways that editors have to work on books. This was one of those books for me.
Ex-media darling, fugitive, and vanished playwright Evan Larkspur gets forced into spying for his enemies, the Column--who of course don't know who he is. (Unfortunately, neither does he--is he Larkspur, or a deluded amnesiac?)
His target? None other than Evan Larkspur, recently returned, it seems, from a years-long space survey gone wrong. Larkspur the Imposter is putting on a new play on the waterworld Venezia. Larkspur the spy auditions for the play...and snags the leading, autobiographical role. Things get more complicated from there, especially for poor Evan L., who has quite a few conflicts--within and without--to wrap up before the final curtain comes down.
I loved the intellectual complication and literary references of this book--not something you usually find in SF. As an editor and as a reader, I wish this duo would write more books!
--Ellen Key Harris, Editor, Del Rey Books
Ex-media darling, fugitive, and vanished playwright Evan Larkspur gets forced into spying for his enemies, the Column--who of course don't know who he is. (Unfortunately, neither does he--is he Larkspur, or a deluded amnesiac?)
His target? None other than Evan Larkspur, recently returned, it seems, from a years-long space survey gone wrong. Larkspur the Imposter is putting on a new play on the waterworld Venezia. Larkspur the spy auditions for the play...and snags the leading, autobiographical role. Things get more complicated from there, especially for poor Evan L., who has quite a few conflicts--within and without--to wrap up before the final curtain comes down.
I loved the intellectual complication and literary references of this book--not something you usually find in SF. As an editor and as a reader, I wish this duo would write more books!
--Ellen Key Harris, Editor, Del Rey Books
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- PublisherDel Rey
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0345378393
- ISBN 13 9780345378392
- BindingPaperback
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