THE BIRD SHAMAN
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JUDITH MOFFETT
HOLY GROUND TRILOGY, BOOK III
Occupation of Earth is now in its 27th year, and relations between humanity and the dictatorial Hefn have never seemed shakier. The aliens mission is to save the planet from its human abusers; and the Baby Ban imposed by mass hypnosis has made Earth a cleaner, wilder, less crowded place. But the Ban has now lasted so long, and provoked such hatred, that when a spark is struck the situation explodes into worldwide riots on one side and retaliatory mindwipings on the other. Years of effort by the eco-spiritual Gaians, who mediate between humans and Hefn, have been destroyed.
While the Gaians regroup and brainstorm frantically in an atmosphere of doubt and danger, one obsessed Hefn and one young woman begin a radical experiment. Pam Pruitt has discovered a growing ability to acquire information by non-rational means. Childhood suffering has empowered her, in a way once understood by hunting and gathering peoples — an understanding lost with that lost lifeway — to communicate with mysterious forces through strong dreaming: to function as a shaman on behalf of her community, the human race.
Buy all 3 books for an even larger discount!
Also from Judith Moffett:
The Ragged World
Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream
Holy Ground Trilogy (all 3 books)
- July, 2026 978-1-958880-40-1
- trade paperback, 6 x 9
- Pre-order copies below; Other venues for ebook & print copies forthcoming.
- Buy all 3 books for $48!
HOLY GROUND TRILOGY, BOOK III
Occupation of Earth is now in its 27th year, and relations between humanity and the dictatorial Hefn have never seemed shakier. The aliens mission is to save the planet from its human abusers; and the Baby Ban imposed by mass hypnosis has made Earth a cleaner, wilder, less crowded place. But the Ban has now lasted so long, and provoked such hatred, that when a spark is struck the situation explodes into worldwide riots on one side and retaliatory mindwipings on the other. Years of effort by the eco-spiritual Gaians, who mediate between humans and Hefn, have been destroyed.
While the Gaians regroup and brainstorm frantically in an atmosphere of doubt and danger, one obsessed Hefn and one young woman begin a radical experiment. Pam Pruitt has discovered a growing ability to acquire information by non-rational means. Childhood suffering has empowered her, in a way once understood by hunting and gathering peoples — an understanding lost with that lost lifeway — to communicate with mysterious forces through strong dreaming: to function as a shaman on behalf of her community, the human race.
Buy all 3 books for an even larger discount!
Also from Judith Moffett:
The Ragged World
Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream
Holy Ground Trilogy (all 3 books)
“In The Bird Shaman, a kidnapping and a dream (or “dream”?) start things moving and lead to sensational results. Unlike most works of SF or science-fantasy on this scale, it continues to portray [its] people in very human terms, with major characters who don't become avatars, demigods, or even heroes with a capital H . . . Moffett provokes you to think and feel.”
— Locus
“Readers who enjoyed The Ragged World and Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream when they first appeared, will find The Bird Shaman equally compelling. Moffett’s books will also be of interest to readers of Octavia Butler, Sheri Tepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joan Slonczewsk and other writers with a strong environmental bent . . . Adult readers will find the world of Judith Moffett’s Hefn enormously rewarding.”
— The New York Review of Science Fiction
“By choosing controversial subjects and then treating them to generic solutions as experienced through the lives of fully-modulated characters, Moffett shows a mature sense of balance, and an active engagement with sf as an exploratory mode . . . it is to be hoped that Holy Ground, now that it is complete, becomes a central text for the times.”
— John Clute, editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"A fine novel and a powerful end to [this] big trilogy . . . I liked the whole end of the macro-plot with the bears and the wild creatures coming back as part of their life cycle. It put a whole new livelihood of interpretation on what the HefnGafr 'stand for' in our psychic story."
— Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
— Locus
“Readers who enjoyed The Ragged World and Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream when they first appeared, will find The Bird Shaman equally compelling. Moffett’s books will also be of interest to readers of Octavia Butler, Sheri Tepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joan Slonczewsk and other writers with a strong environmental bent . . . Adult readers will find the world of Judith Moffett’s Hefn enormously rewarding.”
— The New York Review of Science Fiction
“By choosing controversial subjects and then treating them to generic solutions as experienced through the lives of fully-modulated characters, Moffett shows a mature sense of balance, and an active engagement with sf as an exploratory mode . . . it is to be hoped that Holy Ground, now that it is complete, becomes a central text for the times.”
— John Clute, editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"A fine novel and a powerful end to [this] big trilogy . . . I liked the whole end of the macro-plot with the bears and the wild creatures coming back as part of their life cycle. It put a whole new livelihood of interpretation on what the HefnGafr 'stand for' in our psychic story."
— Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future
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