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Fool's Run
Fool's Run
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Seven years ago, Terra Viridian obeyed a vision and killed 1,500 innocent people. She was sentenced to the Underworld prison. Now, a new age band, led by a psychic pianist and a masked woman called the Queen of Hearts, arrives at the prison to perform. And Terra's vision is moving closer, changing all their lives forever.
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ISBN-13: 9780445205185
ISBN-10: 0445205180
Publication Date: 2/1/1988
Pages: 244
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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From back cover:
Terra Viridian is a young woman who obeyed a vision, took a laser assault rifle, and turned fifteen hundred innocent people into light. She was captured, convicted, and sentenced to the orbital prison callet the Underworld. Forever.
Seven years later a bar-band pianist named The Magician suddenly plays Bach while a riot burns around him. The Queen of Hearts, a drifter who hides her life beneath a golden mask, steps enigmatically from the shadows.
Underworld prison administrator Jase Klyos unexpectedly lets a concert bring sound to his silent, sterile hell. And behind her mad eyes, the vision of a psychotic killer . . . changes.
The thing that Terra Viridian saw is coming, growing, watching---and it must be set free.
Patricia McKillip has also written the well-known RIDDLE MASTER OF HED series; also OD MAGIC, THE WINTER ROSE, THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, and other fantasy novels.
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I came across this book in my school library and decided, "Hey, I have the time, why not?"
I wasn't expecting to spend the next three days with my face buried in it. It's not like it has some huge, epic plot-line with a super surprise ending (in fact, the ending was somewhat sudden and left me with a lot of questions), but I think it was McKillip's imagery and characterization that really got me.

If you really like sci-fi but you don't want something long and complicated like the "Ender's" series, I really suggest reading this. I read it over 4 months ago but I haven't been able to find another book quite as enthralling since.


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