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Heart of Gold (novel)

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2000 novel by Sharon Shinn This article is about the Sharon Shinn novel. For other novels with the same title, see Heart of Gold (disambiguation).
Heart of Gold
First edition cover
AuthorSharon Shinn
Cover artistJames Griffin
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published2000 Ace Books
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages341
ISBN0-441-00821-6
OCLC46764111
LC ClassCPB Box no. 1835 vol. 6

Heart of Gold is a science fiction novel by American writer Sharon Shinn, published in 2000. The story occurs on an unnamed world in an unnamed city where three races (indigo, gulden, and albino) live together. The books focuses on conflicts between the aristocratic, pastoral, and matriarchal Indigo and the clannish, technological, and patriarchal gulden, with little said about the third albino race.

The story follows Nolan Adelpho, an initially conventional indigo biochemist, and Kitrini Candachi, an indigo aristocrat raised among the gulden whose lover is an imprisoned gulden terrorist, as their lives are changed through their understanding of increasingly violent racial conflict around them.

Reception

Jackie Cassada in her review for Library Journal said that this novel "explores the complex struggles of decent people caught in a web of deceit and treachery as they discover the common ground that underlies superficial differences." Publishers Weekly was critical in their review saying that "this flimsy attempt at crossing romance with SF in an imaginary society that reverses customary gender roles results in a hybrid as sterile and ungainly as a mule."

References

  1. Cassada, Jackie (April 15, 2000). "Heart of Gold (Book review)". Library Journal. 125 (7): 126. ISSN 0363-0277.
  2. "forecasts: Fiction". Publishers Weekly. 247 (12): 75. March 20, 2000. ISSN 0000-0019.

External links

Novels by Sharon Shinn


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