Hardcover first edition, first printing. Very fine (unread) copy in very fine dustjacket. First Edition stated on copyright with "1" present in complete number line. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library. A clean, straight copy without price-clipping. Intrigue in a near-future where ecological disaster looms just around the corner. "[P]owerful prose poem on issues that are already with us, but that other writers deem too mundane for this kind of quiet, character-based SF." Locus - June 1995. Award History: 1996 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel; 1995 Lambda Award Winner for Best SF/Gay Novel (tied with Shadow Man by Melissa Scott).