Driven by her own curiosity, Lixia, an earthborn anthropologist, follows a female outcast called Nia across a strange and perilous world. Reprint.
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An expedition sets out from an ecologically ruined Earth to find a planet suitable for human exploration in this excellent, anthropologically oriented SF tale.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A wonderful anthropological first-contact novel. Highly recommended,
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This review is from: In the Light of Sigma Draconis (A Woman of the Iron People, Part 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
[NOTE: this is volume one of the two-volume mmpb reprint, but it's
really just one novel. So be sure you buy both if you get this edition!] There's always some trepidation when one begins to re-read a fondly-remembered book. Will it hold up? Will it be as good as I remember? Happily, Ms. Arnason's wonderful prose soon caught me once again in her spell.... Lixia, the viewpoint character, is a Hawaiian anthropologist from an Earth still recovering from the excesses of the 20th century. She's nerving herself up to enter her first alien village at Sigma Draconis -- 'There was no point in sneaking around. If they caught me spying, I'd be in real trouble. The best thing was to walk right in. The technique hadn't worked in New Jersey, of course. The people there had tried to sacrifice me to their god, the Destroyer of Cities...' Nia, a woman of the Iron People, is a smith and a pervert - she once loved a man. Her neighbors drove her from their village in disgrace. Now she has a smithy near a village of the Copper People -- the village Lixia had come to study. Lixia's first contact doesn't go well -- she is driven out. Nia takes her in, befriends her, and they become travel companions. The next village they visit is kinder: "This person without fur is amazing. She knows nothing about anything. But she is willing to listen, and she doesn't interrupt." Lixia and Nia are joined by Dexter Seawarrior, Ph.D., an Angeleno aborigine. His people prize mellowness and truth; Dexter is devious and ambitious. He left his tribe, went to school, and is now a tenured professor at Berkeley.... The book is filled with complicated people, some of them human,muddling through life. "When a shamaness of an alien village, having handled for the moment the problem of an alien intruder, walks away complaining aloud, 'Why do these things always happen to me?' the reader knows she's in trustworthy hands. High marks." -- Suzy McKee Charnas -- plus more nice cover blurbs from P. Sargent, Ch. Platt, MJ Engh, John Sladek, Gw. Jones & UK Le Guin. They liked it, I liked it, and you will too. Note: Amazon's main page for this novel is at A Woman of the Iron People Happy reading! Peter D. Tillman Review first published in 2000 at Infinity-plus
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