Vigilant

By
James Alan Gardner

Avon Books, for the Science Fiction Book Club
New York
1999

[8], 374 p.; 21.5 cm. (8.5 inches). Black paper with gilt-stamped spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket. Blind-embossed stamp of former owner on front free endpaper. Dust jacket in Brodart Plasti-Kleer Just-A-Fold Book Jacket Cover
Science Fiction Book Club

"Back in 2427, Faye Smallwood was a country doctor's daughter on planet Demoth - smart, blonde, 15 and full of herself. Then the plague struck, leaving humans untouched but killing their neighbors, the Ooloms - arboreal humanoids with chameleon-like skin and glider membranes. One minute they's be soaring through the sky, the next crash-landing on rooftops, paralyzed. That's how Faye met Proctor Zillif" [from the dust jacket].
James Alan Gardner (b. 1955), Ontario, Canada-born and raised, earned bachelor and master's degrees in applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo and is a graduate of the Clarion West Fiction Writers Workshop. An educator and technical writer, but above all, a masterful Science Fiction writer of short stories and novels, he has won Grand Prize in the Writers of the Future contest in 1989 for a short story, and two Aurora Awards, and was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards.

ISBN: 0739401572

Book is in Near Fine Condition: as noted, former owner's blind-embossed handstamp on the half title page; otherwise, the pages are bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Plus Condition: light wear both ends of the spine.

Excellent Science Fiction

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