A rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twenty-second-century society where the winner takes all, written by the genre’s first major female writer and predating The Hunger Games by nearly a century.
Philadelphia, 1918: Three friends--clever but shy Robert Drayton, the strong and hot-tempered Terry Trenmore, and Terry’s brave, confident, and determined sister, Viola--discover a mysterious amulet that transports them two hundred years into the future. Philadelphia is no longer a bustling metropolis but instead a completely isolated city recovering from an unnamed disaster. Citizens are issued with identification tags instead of names, and society is split between a wealthy upper class and a down-trodden lower class. The position of supreme authority is held by a woman, and once a year she oversees competitions to the death to determine who will rule alongside her. Forced to take part in these strange and deadly games, it will take the combined wits of Robert, Terry, and Viola to escape this strange world and return home.
Equal parts dystopia and adventure, The Heads of Cerberus is an unjustly forgotten work of early science fiction, written by a trailblazing master of the genre.
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