Lucky's Harvest: The First Book of Mana [Hardcover]

Ian Watson (Author)

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Publication Date: September 16, 1993

The first of two volumes of a science-fiction novel based on Norse fantasy, by the author of "Stalin's Teardrops". Lucky Sariola, a female spaceship-pilot with Finnish ancestry, stumbles on a strange asteroid in which dwells an alien with the power to move it through space.

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Ian Watson was born in 1943. He lectured in Tanzania and Tokyo and taught Future Studies at Birmingham Polytechnic. He began publishing sf with 'Roof Garden Under Saturn' for New Worlds in 1969 but it was with the publication of The Embedding in 1973 that he really established himself as a writer of rare po --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz (September 16, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0575054239
• ISBN-13: 978-0575054233
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,268,034 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, September 2, 2007

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This review is from: Lucky's Harvest: The First Book of Mana (Mana, Vol 1) (Paperback)

The setting for this book is on another planet, and the happenings are
derived from the Finnish epic, the Kalevela. Not as straightforward an
adventure as Julian May, for example, this leans more to the surreal
side of things.

Lucky was a starship pilot, ends up on an alien planet, and now it
seems she has been practically deified, and wields great power and
influence over others.