Take Back Plenty (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Colin Greenland
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—interplanetary romance
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: Various locations in the solar system
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Circuses or carnivals, Artificial intelligence
- Locales: Solar system
The Plot
As Carnival time on Mars approaches, Tabitha Jute, owner of the space barge Alice Liddell, is penniless and in trouble with the law. In need of a large amount of money in order to pay a fine, she faces the possibility of Alice Liddell, her beloved if rather rickety ship, being impounded.
Jute meets the mysterious Marco Metz, a performer. Metz needs to get to Plenty, an asteroid with a bad reputation, in order to join his cabaret troupe—or so he claims. He offers Jute a sum of money sufficient to get her out of trouble, so, reluctantly, she agrees...
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