The Falling Woman
   Pat Murphy
  1993 TOR - A Tom Doherty Assoc Book NY USA
   ISBN: 0312854064 (Paperback Edition)


After a long & fruitful life as an archeaologist, Liz Butler remembers that dig, long ago in the ruins of a Mayan city, when the shade of a long-dead priestess toppled her into a pool of twilight Mayan magic.

This little adventure leapt off the best-seller shelf of a general store in a tiny town over a decade ago. One of those tourist racks, here this month & gone with the summer except that this one has some gristle, guts & a timely, riveting premise. Notwithstanding a fascinating heroine, hair-raising drama & suspenseful scenes.

The Falling Woman is a must-read for the serious anthropological science fiction collector. It speaks of a time when women were grubbing at the glass ceiling of one particular career choice & reaping its uncertain rewards; none of which was a charmed, suburban life.

A worthy piece of magic, replete with well-wrought details, an evocative sense of time-travel & a satisfying tale well told. Is it still in print? Yes! Has Pat Murphy written anything else? I don't know, do you?
(06/12/99)

Rebecca