Stewards of the Flame

[altariel]

To my great excitement, one of my favourite authors, Sylvia Engdahl, is publishing a new novel, her first in 26 years.

Sylvia Engdahl's novel The Far Side of Evil was my most important reading experience as a child, after The Lord of the Rings. It may be the book that turned me into a sociologist. A heavy responsibility to lay at anyone's door. I think Ursula Le Guin might have had a hand in it too.

The new novel is called Stewards of the Flame (yes I know!) and is intended as an adult novel. edge_of_ruin, you are first up to borrow it.

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I definitely second the recommendation for Mary Gentle. And the one for Sylvia Engdahl's books.

In Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light, there's messing with gender and ruined cities and vast bridges and love and betrayal and galactic corporations and humanity fucking it all up, all through good intentions. I think Gentle uses the word "fuck" a lot less frequently in these books than in some of her later ones.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

All true. Also, again unlike her later books, they're rather lacking in humour.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

there's messing with gender and ruined cities and vast bridges and love and betrayal and galactic corporations and humanity fucking it all up, all through good intentions

Sounds just my kind of thing!