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%T Shadow's Son
%A Shirley Meier
%A S. M. Stirling
%A Karen Wehrstein
%I Baen
%D November 1991
%O paperback, US$4.99
%P 442
%G ISBN 0-671-72091-0
All three of the Fifth Millennium authors come together in this book to give
us the strongest work set in that milieu since The Cage (RR#3). Part of this book overlaps in time with
Lion's Soul, but they're told not from Fourth Chevenga's point of
view, but from Megan Whitlock's rather more complicated one. The major
plotline turns on Megan's attempt to locate and rescue her son out of Arko,
but there's much more going on here. Especially don't miss the hilarious
scene in which Sh'kaira drags Chevenga off into the bushes...
%T Flameweaver
%A Margaret Ball
%I Baen
%D December 1991
%O paperback, US$4.99
%P 374
%G ISBN 0-671-72095-3
This charming, original fantasy has a setting unusual for the genre --- the
northwest frontier of the British Raj, around 1884. Tamai is a failed
sorceress in the hidden mountain kingdom of Gandhara. When the magic of
Gandhara proves no match for repeating rifles in the hands of the Tsar's
Cossacks, Tamai essays a perilous journey south through the mountains in
search of modern arms. The adventure story that follows blends elements of
high fantasy with Kipling's India -- and, in fact Kipling himself, then a
newspaper correspondent, plays no insignificant role in the action. This
is fun stuff, and I hope for more work as inventive from Ms. Ball.
%T Mother Lode
%A Zach Hughes
%I DAW
%D December 1991
%O paperback, US$
%P 208
%G ISBN 0-88677-497-7
Another competent but unexceptional space opera set in the same odd future as
The Book Of Rack The Healer and The Stork Factor.
When Erin Kenner musters out of the Exploration Service and heads home to a
long-awaited reunion with her father, she find he's died scant weeks
previously, leaving her very little outside of a battered Mule-class mining
ship and directions to a solar system outside known space. So she turns
asteroid miner. The plot thickens when she strikes more than gold in them
thar asteroids...
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