02245cam a2200385 i 4500 1164429899 TxAuBib 20150914120000.0 130814s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013029673 9780765332684 pbk. 076533268X pbk. (OCoLC)855909907 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO YDXCP BTCTA BDX DYJ IEP OCLCO OI6 ABG TxAuBib rda Walton, Jo, author. My real children / Jo Walton. First trade paperback edition. New York : Tor, 2015. 331 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know--what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War, those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles? 20150914. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Memory in old age Fiction. Parallel universes Fiction. Nuclear warfare Fiction. Uncertainty Fiction. Women Fiction. Alternative history (fiction.) Science fiction. TXKIP