About the Author

Molly Gloss has won the Whiting Writer's Award and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She has also been a PEN / Faulkner Award Finalist. Her other books include Wild Life and The Jump-Off Creek.

Reviews

"Carefully conceived and deeply affecting." --The New York Times"The Dazzle of Day is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. The Dazzle of Day allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly." --San Jose Mercury News"This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination." --Ursula K. Le Guin

Carefully conceived and deeply affecting. "The New York Times" "The Dazzle of Day "is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. "The Dazzle of Day" allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly. "San Jose Mercury News" This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination. "Ursula K. Le Guin""

"Carefully conceived and deeply affecting."--"The New York Times"

""The Dazzle of Day "is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. "The Dazzle of Day" allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly."--"San Jose Mercury News"

"This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination."--Ursula K. Le Guin

"Carefully conceived and deeply affecting." --The New York Times"The Dazzle of Day is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. The Dazzle of Day allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly." --San Jose Mercury News"This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination." --Ursula K. Le Guin

Carefully conceived and deeply affecting. "The New York Times" "The Dazzle of Day "is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. "The Dazzle of Day" allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly. "San Jose Mercury News" This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination. "Ursula K. Le Guin""

"Carefully conceived and deeply affecting."--"The New York Times"

""The Dazzle of Day "is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. "The Dazzle of Day" allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly."--"San Jose Mercury News"

"This miraculous fusion of meticulous 'hard' science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology created a vast, bleak, beautiful vision of the human figure--a triumph of the imagination."--Ursula K. Le Guin

Nearly 10 years ago, Gloss published a critically acclaimed mainstream novel about American pioneer life in the 1890s, The Jump-Off Creek. For her equally fine second novel, she ventures into SF and the future, writing of interstellar pioneers who leave a ravaged Earth to spend generations in space seeking a new home. The voyagers are Quakers‘more often female than male‘with a predominantly Latin American culture, and they speak Esperanto. Their space-ark's environment is maintained by Green agriculture, and their new world, when at last they reach it, turns out to be chilly, marginally fertile and subject to earthquakes. Gloss skillfully evokes a family saga in relatively few pages, investing her story with an abundance of detail, expressed in rich language, that brings people and places, crops and crises, to life. This is a novel of ideas, in the utopian tradition, but every idea finds its way to the reader through one or more characters. Intelligent and entertaining, it demonstrates why Gloss was a recent winner of a Whiting Writer's Award. (June)