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Description edit
Morrow explores the difficulties facing God's twentieth-century offspring, complete with virgin birth. Julie Katz is a New Jersey girl--the miracle child of a celibate Jewish recluse whose sperm sample, donated to an Atlantic City baby bank, spontaneously gestates.
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First Sentence edit
On the first day of September, 1974, a child was born to Murray Jacob Katz, a celibate Jewish recluse living across the bay from Atlantic City, New Jersey, an island metropolis then famous for its hotels, its boardwalk, its Miss America Pageant, and its seminal role in the invention of Monopoly.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 36 of 40 in SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by Memory, and followed by Doomsday Book.
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Morrow (Author)
Awards edit
- Nebula (Finalist, 1990: Best Novel)
- World Fantasy Award (1991: Best Novel)
- Locus Fantasy Award (Finalist, 1991, Nominee)
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (Finalist, 1991, Finalist)
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (Finalist, 1991, #3)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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