Windhaven

Author:   George R. R. Martin
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
ISBN:  

9780553577907


Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 April 2003
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained


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"George R. R. Martin has thrilled a generation of readers with his epic works of the imagination, most recently the critically acclaimed ""New York Times"" bestselling saga told in the novels A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, and A Storm of Swords. Lisa Tuttle has won acclaim from fans of science fiction, horror, and fantasy alike-- most recently for her haunting novel The Pillow Friend. Now together they gift readers with this classic tale of a brilliantly rendered world of ironbound tradition, where a rebellious soul seeks to prove the power of a dream. The planet of Windhaven was not originally a home to humans, but it became one following the crash of a colony starship. It is a world of small islands, harsh weather, and monster-infested seas. Communication among the scattered settlements was virtually impossible until the discovery that, thanks to light gravity and a dense atmosphere, humans were able to fly with the aid of metal wings made of bits of the cannibalized spaceship. Many generations later, among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, who bring news, gossip, songs, and stories. They are romantic figures crossing treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms that could easily dash them from the sky to instant death. They are also members of an increasingly elite caste, for the wings--always in limited quantity--are growing gradually rarer as their bearers perish. With such elitism comes arrogance and a rigid adherence to hidebound tradition. And for the flyers, allowing just anyone to join their cadre is an idea that borders on heresy. Wings are meant only for the offspring of flyers--now the new nobility of Windhaven. Except that sometimes life is not quite so neat. Maris of Amberly, a fisherman's daughter, was raised by a flyer and wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. By tradition, however, the wings must go to her stepbrother, Coll, the flyer's legitimate son. But Coll wants only to be a singer, traveling the world by sea. So Maris challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen on the basis of merit rather than inheritance. And when she wins that bitter battle, she discovers that her troubles are only beginning. For not all flyers are willing to accept the world's new structure, and as Maris battles to teach those who yearn to fly, she finds herself likewise fighting to preserve the integrity of a society she so longed to join--not to mention the very fabric that holds her culture together."

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Author:   George R. R. Martin
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:   Bantam USA
Dimensions:   Width: 10.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 17.40cm
Weight:   0.206kg
ISBN:  

9780553577907


ISBN 10:   0553577905
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   29 April 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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A powerful flight of the imagination ... wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. --Roger Zelazny <br> 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 <br> It's a romance. It's science fantasy. It's beautiful. --A.E. van Vogt <br> 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


"""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"" 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.-- ""Denver Post "" "" Rivals T. H. White's The Once and Future King."" -- ""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 thatwhat 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"" 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.--""Denver Post "" ""Rivals T. H. White's The Once and Future King.""--""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 islike 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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"George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on ""The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, "" and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he's allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place. Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Houston, Texas, won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, and now lives with her husband and daughter on the west coast of Scotland. Her first novel, Windhaven, was written with George R. R. Martin. Other novels include ""Lost Futures, "" which was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, The Pillow Friend, and The Mysteries."

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