Heart of Gold (novel)

Heart of Gold is a science fiction novel by American writer Sharon Shinn, published in 2000. The story occurs on an unnamed world in an unnamed city where three races (indigo, gulden, and albino) live together. The books focuses on conflicts between the aristocratic, pastoral, and matriarchal Indigo and the clannish, technological, and patriarchal gulden, with little said about the third albino race.

Heart of Gold
First edition cover
AuthorSharon Shinn
Cover artistJames Griffin
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Published2000 Ace Books
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages341
ISBN0-441-00821-6
OCLC46764111
LC ClassCPB Box no. 1835 vol. 6

The story follows Nolan Adelpho, an initially conventional indigo biochemist, and Kitrini Candachi, an indigo aristocrat raised among the gulden whose lover is an imprisoned gulden terrorist, as their lives are changed through their understanding of increasingly violent racial conflict around them.

Reception

Jackie Cassada in her review for Library Journal said that this novel "explores the complex struggles of decent people caught in a web of deceit and treachery as they discover the common ground that underlies superficial differences."[1] Publishers Weekly was critical in their review saying that "this flimsy attempt at crossing romance with SF in an imaginary society that reverses customary gender roles results in a hybrid as sterile and ungainly as a mule."[2]

gollark: Notably, systematized ways to do loans and such, and any real notion of a company.
gollark: A stock market is the shiniest piece of financial technology people think of, but there are many simpler ones SC simply doesn't have.
gollark: Or to sell them.
gollark: Since they are just brand names for a player or a group of players in a partnership, it would not really make sense to buy stocks.
gollark: They don't have accounting.

References
  1. Cassada, Jackie (April 15, 2000). "Heart of Gold (Book review)". Library Journal. 125 (7): 126. ISSN 0363-0277.
  2. "forecasts: Fiction". Publishers Weekly. 247 (12): 75. March 20, 2000. ISSN 0000-0019.


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