The Song of the Earth

This book tells the story of a genetically engineered manual artist through interviews, correspondences, and journal entries. By manual artist, the author is differentiating from those who create digital art. The book includes black and white pictures as well as thirteen color plates of the artist's work. The art is interesting and evocative. The combination of words and art created an emotionally charged book that I could barely put down. Though not usually a genre fiction writer, Nissenon really captured a bleak future as well as a portrait of, well, an artist as a young man. This book won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2002 and was nominated for an Otherwise Award (formerly the James Tiptree, Jr. award)

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