by George R.R. Martin, Lisa Tuttle
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.
Didn't hit my wow factor, but the story is well told and has an interesting consideration of how and why traditions are broken, and what the possible repercussions, or follow-up adjustments might be. Solid story and characters with a vividly created world of star travelers whose generations had to a...