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Hardfought Study Guide

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by Greg Bear
About 13 pages (3,866 words)
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Setting

The action takes place on two spaceships in the Medusa nebula and in flashbacks to Earth where the first Prufax lived when she was not fighting in the war against the Senexi. The human spaceship, huge enough to contain a park and numerous people, is a world-in-miniature where information is rigorously controlled. Prufax, like all "Glovers," is denied any information not directly related to her task of killing the enemy; even her entertainment is restricted to depictions of violence and heroic glovers.

Her love life is rigorously regulated, with unseen "overs" choosing who she may or may not have as friends or lovers, and her emotional development, sexual responsiveness, and ability to conceive are controlled with equal severity. Her body, as controlled from without as her mind, is without explanation manipulated to serve the ends.....

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Hardfought from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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