Windhaven
On stormy Windhaven, the descendants of long-ago stranded star-sailors live on widely separated islands. Lacking metals to sustain industrial technology, the inhabitants depend on flyers, humans with wings made from the original star sail, to bring news and carry messages, uniting far-flung communities. Maris, a land-bound female adopted into a flyer family, loves to fly. But when her stepbrother, Coll, turns thirteen, he as first-born stands to inherit the irreplaceable wings, even as he dream…
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- Full title :Windhaven / George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle.
Summary
On stormy Windhaven, the descendants of long-ago stranded star-sailors live on widely separated islands. Lacking metals to sustain industrial technology, the inhabitants depend on flyers, humans with wings made from the original star sail, to bring news and carry messages, uniting far-flung communities. Maris, a land-bound female adopted into a flyer family, loves to fly. But when her stepbrother, Coll, turns thirteen, he as first-born stands to inherit the irreplaceable wings, even as he dreams of being a traveling singer instead. When Maris tries to resolve both quandaries by stealing the wings, she challenges not only flyer law but the basic assumptions of Windhaven society. Establishing competitions to win wings and training academies for students from non-flyer families, and defending a "made" flyer accused of treason for stopping a war, Maris faces the lifelong consequences of talent come into conflict with privilege ...
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- Publication Date:2003, ©1981.
- Edition:Bantam Spectra mass market ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bantam Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003, ©1981.
Notes
Novel.
Cover art by Stephen Youll.
Maps by James Sinclair.
The Physical Object
- Description:400 pages : : map ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0553577905, 9780553577907
- oclc:on1046680765
- LC Classification:PS3563.A7242
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