Windhaven
The islands of Windhaven, a forgotten planetary outpost, are held together by the flyers who travel between the various communities. Birth dictates who looks on in envy and who actually flies. Maris defies this law, borrows wings and takes to the air with an ability previously unheard of - her...
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The islands of Windhaven, a forgotten planetary outpost, are held together by the flyers who travel between the various communities. Birth dictates who looks on in envy and who actually flies. Maris defies this law, borrows wings and takes to the air with an ability previously unheard of - her struggle to hold onto her wings will change Windhaven for ever ...
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ISBN:
9780450046667 (0450046664)
Edition language: English
No-recomendado por Lau Me propongo leer de principio a fin libros considerados "malos". Mi intención es encontrar al menos UNA cualidad buena en ellos y reseñarlos objetivamente siguiendo 20 puntos a desarrollar brevemente. (Los puntos varían según el género del que se trate.)Si tienen ganas de No-r...
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I was a little disappointed by this book toward the middle, but it came together as it went along and I was pretty satisfied by the end. It's set on a world called Windhaven that is largely ocean, with widely-scattered islands. Long ago settled by star-farers from Earth, its remote pockets of popu...
Marvelous Excellent and Beautiful. It makes me nostalgic for the 80's when the longer short fiction forms in the Speculative Fiction mileu were written by a bevy of top drawer talent- Zelazny,McCaffrey, Ellison and Wolfe (Among many others), who were turning out magnificent Novellas and novelettes a...
A classic from the 70s, memorable for its wonderful depiction of the joys of flying, I mean with wings, like an eagle. The written version of the flight training segment of the movie Avatar. 30+ years after, the memories are fading but overall it was a good read.
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