- Paperback: 263 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / General; Reprint edition (July 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380756382
- ISBN-13: 978-0380756384
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,422,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Earthborn Lixia, a vistor from her damaged planet, and Nia, a primitive outcast, exiled for committing a transgression unheard of in her society, unite by circumstance and travel together across a perilous continent. Reprint.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
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A wonderful anthropological first-contact novel. Highly recommended,, Mar 13 2007
By Peter D. Tillman - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: A Woman of the Iron People: Changing Women/Part 2 (Paperback)
[NOTE: this is volume TWO 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 Pamela Sargent, Charles Platt,
MJ Engh,John Sladek, Gwyneth Jones & Ursula K Le Guin. They liked it,
I liked it, and you will too.
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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