Purchasing information: These books are now out of print, but many independent bookstores still have copies. Used copies can sometimes be found through Powells or Amazon, but I don't get any royalties on those, so buy them new if you can.
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1993 DAW ISBN 0-88677-556-6 $4.99 (out of print) | Amazon | Powells Far in the future, an interplanetary civil conflict has ground to an uneasy halt, leaving its human victims bitter and desperate: Kithri, the daughter of a scientist, abandoned on a desolate mining planet with no hope to use her talents; Eril, shell-shocked pilot, finding adapting to peace more difficult than he dreamed. A freak accident sends them back to a time when their desert world was lush and green, when an alien civilization stands on the brink of a war of total destruction. And they must choose -- to remain outside the conflict or to stand up for what they believe, even at the cost of never getting home again. "There is an emphasis on the quest for peace that is unusual when so many novels focus on the quest for dominance and victory..." "A wild and woolly journey through time and space that contains enough imagination and plotting for an entire shelf of books." |
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1995 DAW ISBN 0-88677-639-2 $4.99 (out of print) | Amazon | Powells Under its idyllic surface, uneasy forces stir in the land of Laurea, rumors of war with the savage north and the assassination of a beloved leader. Kardith, knife fighter and Ranger, joins forces with young scholar Terricel to discover a deadly conspiracy. With her sharp steel and his transcendent vision, they must find a way through old hatreds and new tyrants. But to do this, they must each confront and heal the past -- Kardith must make her peace with the personal horror she has buried deep within her soul, while Terricel discovers a terrible, ancient secret which can destroy not only Laurea, but all of Harth. "A beautifully constructed fantasy with characters who grow and mature before the reader's eyes and who are engagingly human while being fantastically heroic... This book is a keeper." "I read round the clock and simply could not put it down. The people and setting are fascinating. I was delighted to see the higher consciousness ideals I feel are so precious and needed in our world, that subtle inner woven essence of truth." |
