Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq'ssan Cycle

2005 Duchamp, L[inda] Timmel (b. 1950). Alanya to Alanya: Book One of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press. PSt

First volume of a five-volume series. In this volume, an alien feminist eutopia that hopes to save Earth from itself is set against a near future authoritarian dystopia. A non-violent anarchist eutopia, known as the Free Zone, develops in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and is threatened by internal divisions and external forces. Renegade: Book Two of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2006, describes a power struggle between two women, one representing the dystopia and one representing the eutopia. Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, shows three women with very different perspectives as they try to bring about the changes they want. In Blood in the Fruit: Book Four of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2007, the aliens return to see whether or not Earth should be quarantined. Stretto: Book Five of the Marq’ssan Cycle. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2008, stresses the utopian elements, basically feminist and liberal, but the various political struggles continue, and there is no clear resolution at the end. All five volumes were written in the 1980s. Female author.