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The following posts include (1) "footnotes" for The Doris Piserchia Website (link at left), (2) texts-in-process that will eventually appear there, (3) texts from other websites, and (we hope) (4) stimulating discussion threads. The picture to the left is the back cover of The Spinner (book club edition), depicting a citizen of Eastland "hanging out" while Ekler the cop and Rune the idiot-superman look on.


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Thanks to the folks who did the Wikipedia page on Doris Piserchia. (T. Anthony and Erechtheus if I'm reading the contribs page correctly.)

- tom moody 1-22-2007 2:33 am [link]



Some nice descriptions of Piserchia books by Der Trihs from the Straight Dope message board (scroll down):

Doomtime: Set in a far future Earth where the dominant life forms are a pair of mountain-tall sentient trees that have extended their roots over much of the planet. They hate each other, and are constantly trying to destroy one another. They can temporarily (or permanently) absorb creatures into themselves, including people; this process lets them read people's minds, and is pleasurable enough to be addictive, which is one way they control people.

Spaceling: The protaganist is an orphan girl who is a mute, a person who can see the Rings, which are drifting rings of light that are interdimensional gates to those who can see them. Anything or anyone that passes through is transformed into a new form. She, however, secretly has abilities that others don't. She can see many more Rings than others can, her forms are different than normal people's forms, and she can command the Rings to move as she desires. She ends up having to discover her truly odd origins, and deal with multiple conspiracies that want to help/hurt/use her.

- tom moody 1-22-2007 2:24 am [link]



Cover galleries updated: 1973 - 1978 and 1978 - 1983. Added the French and Dutch covers and changed the picture links so they make use of a new image-retrieval system here at Digital Media Tree, which should make them load faster.

- tom moody 8-30-2004 9:39 pm [link]



Piserchia French Spinner

Piserchia French Spinner Thumb

Book cover for French edition of The Spinner. ("L'homme-araignée": The Man-spider). Published by Fleuve Noir ("Black River") in 1985. The foreground figure, I'm guessing, is Rune, but it also appears to be a weird hybrid of Rune and the Spinner, with clawed, webbed feet and "spider markings" on his clothing. Also, what's with the futuristic weapon? And the woman behind him--is that the cognitively impaired girl Rune impregnates? She looks like a cross between an amazon warrior and a crusader.

- tom moody 8-28-2004 11:02 am [link]



Jade Van De Sterren - Dutch Star Rider thumbReee - Dutch Earthchild thumb

More new Doris Piserchia related pages on the Internet: a page listing works of hers that were translated into French (mostly short stories or serialized novels in Galaxy and the like--but not Earthchild or Star Rider, which we know were in French because we have covers), and a page on a German feminist sf site [update: this appears to be gone now], which links to our interview and main page here. Also, this isn't new, but there is also a page listing two books translated into Dutch: Jade Van De Sterren (Jade of the Stars?--Star Rider in the US) and Reee (Earthchild). Eventually I'll get the Dutch covers up in the cover gallery.

- tom moody 5-09-2004 8:06 am [link]