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Beasts : Classic Science Fiction S. - John Crowley

Beasts

By: John Crowley

Paperback | 1 December 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Painter is a leo - part man, part lion - the result of one of man's genetic experiments, a powerful, beautiful, enigmatic creature deemed a 'failure' to be be hunted down. But Painter has two advantages in this world of small bickering nation states and political accommodation and compromise: his own strength and integrity, and the guile of Reynard, another of man's experiments, a subtle and potent intriguer, a king-maker...
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In a future America of retreating frontiers and fragmented authority, a small population of "leos" - legacy of a long ago genetic experiment - combine the mental and physical natures of man and lion. They fit no civilized expectations, but a few men see wholeness and beauty in their bare, nomadic, candidly predatory existence. The leo hero, Painter, is economically and convincingly imagined. Painter's relationship with a human mistress, a subsidiary plot involving falconry, and the criticism of easy ecological faith, are among the more impressive achievements of a spotty but genuinely original book. Crowley may well become one of our more important sf writers. (Kirkus Reviews)

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