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dustydigger
Posted 2016-05-21 5:56 AM (#13599 - in reply to #13118)
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Location: UK		For 1981 I read G.R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle's Windhaven is a pleasant enough little tale about the descendants of a crashed spaceship on a stormy almost completely sea covered planet. Sea travel is hazardous and slow, and the people on the small islands of the archipelagos have lost all technology over the centuries All there is left is the almost indestructable material of the ships solar wing. This was converted to single person glider rigs, and over the centuries these fliers have been the only way of contact between the islands. But things have deteriorated,the fliers lord it over the non fliers, and keep their privileges to themselves. Till Maris comes along and changes society by challenging the old regime, with greater consequences than she ever intended.

Interesting world building, but rather uninspired characters. it also suffers from being patched together from 3 novellasof varying length and focus.Pleasant but not much more to it as far as I was concerned.
For 1982 I'll be reading Michael Bishop's No Enemy But Time,and for 1983 C J Cherryh's 40,000 in Gehenna.Will try to get both of them for June,to try to catch up with the schedule!

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