Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance

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Critically acclaimed author Eleanor Arnason published her first novel, The Sword Smith,  in 1978, and followed it with novels such as Daughter of the Bear King  and To the Resurrection Station.  In 1991, she published her best-known novel, one of the strongest novels of the ‘90s, A Woman of the Iron People,  a complex and substantial novel which won the prestigious James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & science Fiction, Amazing, Orbit, Xanadu,  and elsewhere. Her most recent novel is Ring of Swords,  set in the same evocative fictional universe as is the bulk of her short fiction, including the story that follows.

In this story she takes us to a distant planet inhabited by the alien hwarhath,  and along with a brave and determined young girl who defies her family and sets off on a perilous adventure that takes her into uncharted territory of several sorts—into wild, lawless country inhabited by bandits and remorseless killers, and, perhaps even more dangerously, into a new social territory as well, as she assumes roles Forbidden to Women since time immemorial.. .

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