Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Geary, Patricia
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(1951- ) US writer and academic whose first novel, Living in Ether (1982; cut 1987), wittily portrays Southern California as a land all but coextensive with the Afterlife (the narrator, a professional medium, receives tantalizing communications from her dead brother), whose residents employ yoga, psychics and martial-arts training to deal with otherworldly complications. Strange Toys (1987), which won the Philip K Dick Award, is more overtly a fantasy; the complex plot involves Voodoo, incantations and malevolent sorcery. [GF]
Patricia Carol Geary
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