Temporary Agency

by Rachel Pollack

Overview

When Ellen was fourteen, her cousin, Paul, angered a Malignant One, and he turned to Ellen for help. And then, when things had started to get out of hand, when the usual spells and charms didn't work, and when the usual agencies didn't want to know, she contacted Alison Birkett, the lawyer who specialised in demonic possession and corruption in the Spiritual Development Agency. And Ellen's life was changed...


Temporary Agency is the follow-up to Rachel Pollack's acclaimed novel, Unquenchable Fire, winner of the 1988 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Set in the same strange America of Bright Beings, miracles and religious ritual, it is a fantasy of power and humour, love and pain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780575119444
Publisher:	Orion
Publication date:	07/25/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	317 KB

About the Author

Rachel Pollack (1945-2023)
Rachel Pollack was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. She is well known as a science fiction author, comic book writer and expert on divinatory tarot. She has been a great influence on the women's spirituality movement and on women's SF. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989 with Unquenchable Fire and the World Fantasy Award in 1997 with Godmother Night. She has also been shortlisted for the Nebula Award and for the James Tiptree, Jr Memorial Award twice.

For more information see www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pollack_rachel

Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) Rachel Pollack was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. She is well known as a science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot. She has been a great influence on the women's spirituality movement and on women's SF. Her novel Unquenchable Fire won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1989. She died in 2023.

Editorial Reviews

Set in the world of Pollack's "Unquenchable Fire" (1992) at some imminent but unspecified time, "Temporary Agency" is a commentary on current global politics and governance that combines magical realism, science fiction, and surrealism in a gripping drama of conspiracy at the highest levels of power. The two-part story of intrigue, double-crosses, and political deal making focuses on Ellen Pierson, just 14 when her beloved cousin, Paul, crosses paths with a Malignant One. Ellen has an adolescent crush on Alison Birkett, a superattorney specializing in demonic possession, and is overjoyed when Birkett herself takes on the case of "freeing and liberating" Paul from the erotic, will-destroying Black Dust 7, whose evil forces threaten Ellen and her family. Part two finds Ellen grown into an attractive, independent lesbian in her late 20s, confronting new and terrible manifestations of excessive power gone excessively corrupt as her path once again crosses Birkett's, this time as more than a client. A powerful, disturbing look at a future mirroring the more frightening aspects of today's political realities.

Whitney Scott