The Margarets
category: fantasy, author:Sheri S. Tepper
original copyright 2007,read in April 2011
Agamedes' opinion: 6 out of 10
According to the cover blurb, "Sheri Tepper weaves science fiction and fantasy superbly". Don't believe it. This is pure fantasy...Okay, the story is set on Earth of the future. With other planets also involved. Characters -- such as all the Margarets -- travel from one planet to another. Sorry, this does not make "science fiction".
The setting may be futuristic. The story is fantasy. Not that there's anything wrong with that. As long as you know.
One girl is split into seven separate people. How is this done? Possibly by cloning, then by a few years in an alternate reality. Or some other possibility... Yes, that's the depth of the explanation provided. How did they share memories to the point of splitting? How did they have a feeling of having been split if they were, in fact, cloned before birth? No explanation.
And no explanation is needed.
