2233 c349c584-8713-4316-b186-d348d48c1a43 Temporary Agency Rachel Pollack calibre (2.43.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1994-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 SUMMARY: When I was fourteen, a cousin of mine angered a Malignant One. It was a big case, a genuine scandal. Maybe you remember it. At the time, when it ended, I just wanted to forget about the whole thing. But a couple of years have passed and I guess maybe it's time to think about it again. Thus begins Ellen Pierson's story of how she helped her cousin Paul contend with the Malignant One running a temp agency in the office building where he worked. Ellen's story is a bright and moving tale set in the same fabulous, fantastic America as that of Rachel Pollack's award-winning Unquenchable Fire. Funny and frantic, poignant and powerful, Temporary Agency is an enduring fable from a writer whose work, in the words of Orson Scott Card, "like a river in flood, resists the well-channeled ways, cutting its own channel through the fictional terrain." Orbit http://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?34718 en Fantasy - General Novel Science Fiction Science Fiction - Anthologies Fiction - Fantasy Fiction Fantasy nebula award for best novel finalist General _isfdb Nomination of 1994 Tiptree Award for Gender-bending SF Nomination of 1995 Mythopoeic Award for Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Nominations Below Cutoff of 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novel