Orbital Resonance
Book 1 of The Century Next Door
Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Nomination of 1991 Tiptree Award for Gender-bending SF Novel Preliminary Nominees of 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novel _isfdb james tiptree jr award finalist nebula award for best novel finalist
Publisher: Tor
Published: Dec 2, 1991
Description:
From the 1991 Nebula Award nominee who "may well be the new writer on whom the mantle of Robert Heinlein falls" (Poul Anderson). Young Melpomene Murray lives on an asteroid colony, thousands of miles from an Earth nearly destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She has been trained since birth to lead mankind into the future. But Melpomene has plans of her own . . .