Summer of Love - Softcover

Mason, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553373307 ISBN 13: 9780553373301

Publisher: Spectra, 1994

Synopsis

A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book.
The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, bikers,dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger. The Summer of Love.
San Francisco is the Summer of Love, where runaway flower children flock to join the hip elite and squares cruise the streets to view the human zoo.
Lost in these strange and wondrous days, teenager Susan Bell, alias Starbright, has run away from the straight suburbs of Cleveland to find her troubled best friend. Her path will cross with Chiron Cat's Eye in Draco, a strange and beautiful young man who has journeyed farther than she could ever imagine.
With the help of Ruby A. Maverick, a wise, feisty half-black, half-white hip merchant, Susan and Chi discover a love that spans five centuries. But can they save the world from demons threatening to destroy all space and time?
From the author of The Garden of Abracadabra and The Gilded Age (A New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Celestial Girl (A LilyModjeska Mystery), One Day in the Life of Alexa, and Strange Ladies: 7 Stories..

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About the Author

Lisa Mason has published ten novels, including Summer of Love, a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book and Philip K. Dick Award Finalist, The Gilded Age, a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book, a collection of previously published short fiction, StrangeLadies: 7 Stories, and thirty-three stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Mason's Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios. Her latest novel is One Day in the Life of Alexa.

From Booklist

In Mason's second novel, the media's recent love affair with the 1960s finally reaches its fictional apotheosis with an admiring backward look from 500 years hence. Chiron Cat's Eye in Draco is a twenty-fifth-century San Franciscan sent back to the 1967 Summer of Love to uncover the source of an anomalous information gap in his era's archives. Armed with high-tech sunscreen and other assorted protections against twentieth-century toxins, Chiron must locate and study a teenage runaway nicknamed Starbright, who may or may not be the axis for a series of inevitable historic events. Although trying to obey strict tenets of noninvolvement, Chiron slowly finds himself sympathizing with Starbright and the causes of her day, thereby risking not only his mission but the fate of his own time line. Mason faithfully re-creates the frenzied flavor of the 1960s Haight-Ashbury scene while skillfully delineating believable and engaging characters. A unique blend of nostalgia and wry speculative fiction. Carl Hays

Edition details

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0553373307
• ISBN 13: 9780553373301
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384