I only read Woman on the Edge of Time because I twice saw it favourably compared with Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed, but I enjoyed it so much that I have since read most of Marge Piercy's other novels...

Stand aside William Gibson and Bruce Sterling! Body of Glass is a combination of future history and cyberpunk that is a match for Neuromancer in excitement and breadth of vision, but it is also a far greater novel...

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December 20, 1999 WRITERS ON WRITING Life of Prose and Poetry -- an Inspiring Combination By MARGE PIERCY henever I face an audience with at least minimal familiarity with my work, there are two questions always asked: Why do you write both fiction and poetry What's the difference between writing poetry and fiction I have various glib answers I whip out of my failing brain. I mention that ...