I'd like to recommend to you all a book that I've never read. I fully intend to, once I have the money. I haven't ever read anything by this author. However, she is being recommended by the single smartest woman I know. Her book also got a glowing blurb by the writer of Transmetropolitan. This should be totally sufficient to accept her genius.
The book is Catherynne M Valente's Palimpsest-
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