The Liminal People: A Novel (The Liminal People, 1) - Softcover

Jama-Everett, Ayize

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193152033X ISBN 13: 9781931520331

Publisher: Small Beer Press, 2012

Synopsis

Taggert can heal and hurt with just a touch. When an ex calls for help, he risks the wrath of his enigmatic master to try and save her daughter.
But when Taggert realizes the daughter has more power than even he can imagine, he has to wrestle with the very nature of his skills, not to mention unmanned and uncreated gods, in order keep the girl safe. In the end, Taggert will have to use more than his power, he has to delve into his heart and soul to survive.
The Liminal People is a fast-paced science fiction thriller with shades of the Matrix or Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs novels don’t worry, you haven’t read this before: this is something all new.

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About the Author

Ayize Jama-Everett: Ayize Jama-Everett was born in 1974 and raised in Harlem, New York. Since then he has traveled extensively in Northern Africa, New Hampshire, and Northern California. He holds a Master's in Clinical Psychology and a Master's in Divinity. He teaches religion and psychology at Starr King School for the Ministry when he's not working as a school therapist at the College Preparatory School. When not educating, studying, or beating himself up for not writing enough, he's usually enjoying aged rums and practicing his aim.

Review

“Ayize Jama-Everett has brewed a voodoo cauldron of Sci-Fi, Romance, Crime, and Superhero Comic, to provide us with a true gestalt of understanding, offering us both a new definition of “family” and a world view on the universality of human conduct. The Liminal People―as obviously intended―will draw different reactions from different readers. But none of them will stop reading until its cataclysmic ending.”
―Andrew Vachss

“Ayize’s imagination will mess with yours, and the world won’t ever look quite the same again.”
―Nalo Hopkinson

“The Liminal People has the pleasures of classic sf while being astonishingly contemporary and savvy.”
―Maureen F. McHugh

“Fast and sleek and powerful―a skillful and unique mix of supernatural adventure and lived-in, persuasive, often moving noir.”
―Felix Gilman, author of The Half-Made World

Ayize Jama-Everett has brewed a voodoo cauldron of Sci-Fi, Romance, Crime, and Superhero Comic, to provide us with a true gestalt of understanding, offering us both a new definition of family” and a world view on the universality of human conduct. The Liminal People as obviously intended will draw different reactions from different readers. But none of them will stop reading until its cataclysmic ending.”
Andrew Vachss

Ayize’s imagination will mess with yours, and the world won’t ever look quite the same again.”
Nalo Hopkinson

The Liminal People has the pleasures of classic sf while being astonishingly contemporary and savvy.”
Maureen F. McHugh

Fast and sleek and powerful a skillful and unique mix of supernatural adventure and lived-in, persuasive, often moving noir.”
Felix Gilman, author of The Half-Made World

About this edition

• Publisher: Small Beer Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 193152033X
• ISBN 13: 9781931520331
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204