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Windhaven [Paperback]

George R.R. Martin , Lisa Tuttle
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Praise for Windhaven:

"A powerful flight of the imagination ... wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence."—Roger Zelazny

"Told with a true storyteller's voice: clear, singing, persuasive, and wonderfully moving. They have made a mythic land and peopled it with unforgettable characters. It is a book for adults and children who have dreamed of flying with their own wings, and for story listeners of all ages for whom dreams are as potent as realities. A truly wonderful book."—Jane Yolen

"It's a romance. It's science fantasy. It's beautiful."—A.E. van Vogt

"The pace never slackens, shifting easily from moments of almost unbearable tension to others of sheer poetry and exhilaration. Martin and Tuttle make wonderful professional music together."
-- Fort Worth Star-Telegram


For George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones:

"Grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant."-- Robert Jordan

"A grand feast and pageant: George R. R. Martin has unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world."-- Chicago Sun-Times

A Clash of Kings:

"Destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written."-- The Denver Post

"Rivals T. H. White's The Once and Future King."-- The Des Moines Register

For Lisa Tuttle's The Pillow Friend:

"A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire."-- Neil Gaiman

"Stunning. This novel shows us that what we hide from ourselves, and what we make up, may be more real than reality itself."-- Library Journal

Lost Futures:

"Lisa Tuttle's best fiction is like a slow settling of vast planes of thought and emotion -- luminous, quiet, wry and often bitter. The edges almost always admit other worlds, sometimes horrific, whose full import may be revealed, fully and skillfully, in a single, telling line."-- Kathleen Ann Goonan, The New York Review of Science Fiction

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“Told with a true storyteller’s voice: clear, singing, persuasive, and wonderfully moving . . . a truly wonderful book.”—Jane Yolen
 
From #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and acclaimed author Lisa Tuttle comes a timeless tale that brilliantly renders the struggle between the ironbound world of tradition and a rebellious soul seeking to prove the power of a dream.
 
Among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, romantic figures who cross treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms, to bring news, gossip, songs, and stories to a waiting populace. Maris of Amberly, a fisherman’s daughter, wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. So she challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen by merit rather than inheritance. But even after winning that bitter battle, Maris finds that her troubles are only beginning. Now a revolution threatens to destroy the world she fought so hard to join—and force her to make the ultimate sacrifice.
 
“Martin and Tuttle make wonderful professional music together . . . shifting easily from moments of almost unbearable tension to others of sheer poetry and exhilaration.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
 
“A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.”—Roger Zelazny
 
“It’s romance. It’s science fiction. It’s beautiful.”—A. E. van Vogt
 
“I didn’t mean to stay up all night to finish Windhaven, but I had to!”—Anne McCaffrey


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4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad! Feb 20 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book was nice change of pace for me. It wasn't too long and the characters were fairly entertaining. Wasn't engrossing or thought provoking just an entertaining short novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful fantasy!!! Dec 3 2003
By A Customer
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I enjoy Anne McCaffrey books,and I really enjoyed WINDHAVEN. I could not put it down.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Open your mind Oct 28 2003
By Katie
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Agreeably not ASoIaF, this book is still not to be ignored. If it weren't for the high standards we have set for GRRM, this book would have a higher rating. Slower action, but this book really made me think. What would happen, say, if I couldn't ride horses anymore, the one thing I love to do? Maris dreamed of being a flyer since being a little girl. She thought that what you dreamed, you could make reality. She was right. With her father dead, he mother gladly gave her into the care of a flyer, one who flies on metal wings above the storm-wracked islands of Windhaven, delivering messages. When her adopted father's son comes of age, there is a new struggle. Coll, her adopted brother, doesn't want the wings. Maris does. And defying the odds, she changes the system, allowing those of low birth to compete, and have a chance to become a flyer. But then she is forced to help a boy who hates flyers as much as they hate him gain his wings. Fast forward, the most significant scene of all happens. Maris falls. She can never fly again. She no longer feels she has a place with other flyers. This book opened my eyes to the world around me. If you want something that makes you think, laugh, and cry, and reasses your values and how much things mean to you, while telling you the life of an extrodinary character who lead a specatular life, pick up Windhaven. You won't be disappointed.
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1.0 out of 5 stars a disappointment
If like myself, you have enjoyed Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series and been completely blown away by the honesty of his characters, the brilliance of his politics and spent... Read more
Published on Sep 15 2003 by Heather Hall
3.0 out of 5 stars Just an okay story
Windhaven is the story a one person's life in a fantasy setting. It is not a bad story, just not a great one.
Published on Sep 13 2003 by Julie Phillips
2.0 out of 5 stars Dragonriders of Pern much better
Anne McCaffrey told this story first, and much better, with her Dragonriders of Pern series. Several plot elements within the two stories are so similar that Martin and Tuttle must... Read more
Published on Aug 11 2003 by M. Walters
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
I had read this book 20 years ago and had almost forgotten how wonderful it is. After just rereading it i cant emphasize what a unique story it is. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2002 by P. Robinson
4.0 out of 5 stars More good stuff by George
The 1st 2 parts of this novel (previously published in ANALOG magazine as "The Storms of Windhaven" & "One-Wing") brilliantly Dliver the kind of mood,... Read more
Published on Sep 1 2002 by Tracy Deaton
3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't hang together
Windhaven is an ocean world: there's very little land and it's widely scattered. Sea travel is exceedingly dangerous due to weather and hostile native fauna. Read more
Published on Jun 30 2002 by ocelot
2.0 out of 5 stars Grinning over eggs for breakfast has never been so grim
This is a pretty novel but not at all to my liking. It is so slow and unengaging at the start and seemed to be just an extension of the hang gliding experience. Read more
Published on Feb 26 2002 by A. G. Plumb
3.0 out of 5 stars A Fun, Quick Read
I choose to read this book out of admiration for George R.R. Martin's other works.
On the whole, I enjoyed this book. The world was well developed and consistent. Read more
Published on Oct 22 2001 by Erin Spock
4.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected
Every time I walk into a book store, I scan the shelves of new releases for the name George R. R. Martin, so I was pleasantly surprised when my wife pointed this book out to me. Read more
Published on Aug 26 2001 by "krmsam"
3.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant flight
It seems unfair (or perhaps just ignorant) to criticize a book based on its author's other works, but Windhaven's faults are made all the more apparent because thanks to "A... Read more
Published on Aug 12 2001 by Anna Keaney
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