Cat Scratch Fever [Cover Artist Signed]

Harper, Tara K.

ISBN 10: 0345380517 / ISBN 13: 9780345380517

Published by Del Ray / Ballantine, New York, 1994

Signed by Cover Artist Rowena [Morrill]. Rowena Morrill is an American artist known for her science-fiction and fantasy illustration, and is credited as one of the first female artists to impact paperback cover illustration. No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, age-toning is the only flaw to note. Appears unread; no spine crease. 7 inches tall; 366 [4] pages. The book is from the estate of Jeri Kandel of Sarasota, Florida. Jeri an aspiring Sci Fi/Horror author was active in the Florida West Coast Sci Fi Fantasy community. She was a "volunteer" for DragonCon in Atlanta and other Florida West Coast and Orlando events as an active member of ASFA where she acquired amazing autographs. Tsia had always dreamed of becoming a guide, connected to her world through a telepathic link to another lifeform. Finally, she underwent the transformative guide virus, hoping to create the gate she yearned for. But her body mutated into the forbidden form of felines, scouts of the planet's First Droppers, promised freedom from human control. Bound by Guide Guild laws and the First-Landing Pact, she was forbidden from interacting with them. However, capture, torture, and enslavement replaced her once-promising future. Now, Tsia's only chance for freedom rested on her gate and once she connected with the cats, there would be no turning back. Seller Inventory # 18802

Synopsis:

Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who had scouted the planet for the First Droppers and, in exchange, been promised their freedom forever from human domination. By laws of the Guide Guild and the First-Landing Pact, she could never call to the cats, never speak with them, never approach them. But then capture and imprisonment, torture and slavery took the place of an empty future. Suddenly Tsia's only hope lay with her gate--and once she had touched the cats, there would be no turning back...

From the Inside Flap: amed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who had scouted the planet for the First Droppers and, in exchange, been promised their freedom forever from human domination. By laws of the Guide Guild and the First-Landing Pact, she could never call to the cats, never speak with them, never approach them. But then capture and imprisonment, torture and slavery took the place of an empty future. Suddenly Tsia's only hope lay with her gate--and once she had touched the cats, there would be no turning back...

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cat Scratch Fever [Cover Artist Signed]
Publisher: Del Ray / Ballantine, New York
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Illustrated Wraps
Illustrator: Cover Art by Rowena.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: Fourth Printing.