Mindscape - Andrea Hairston

\nA science fiction tale of global warfare and the people who profit from it, Mindscape is Hairston's extraordinary debut novel, first published by a small press in 2006. \n \nNominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the Otherwise Award \n \nThe world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to end the internal wars. \n \nWhen the treaty's architect is assassinated, her protegee, Elleni, a talented renegade and one of the few able to negotiate the Barrier, is forced to take up her mantle. \n \nNow Elleni and a motley crew of allies risk their lives to make the treaty work. \n \nCan they repair their fractured world before the Barrier devours them completely?\n \n \nA science fiction tale of global warfare and the people who profit from it, Mindscape was Hairston's extraordinary debut novel, nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the Otherwise Award. \n \nThe world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined to thwart a potential treaty to end the internal wars. \n \nWhen the treaty's architect is assassinated, her protegee, Elleni, a talented renegade and one of the few able to negotiate the Barrier, is forced to take up her mantle. \n \nNow Elleni and a motley crew of allies risk their lives to make the treaty work. \n \nCan they repair their fractured world before the Barrier devours them completely?\n