{"product_id":"windhaven-isbn-9780345535498","title":"Windhaven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Told with a true storyteller’s voice: clear, singing, persuasive, and wonderfully moving . . . a truly wonderful book.”—Jane Yolen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author George R. R. Martin and acclaimed author Lisa Tuttle comes a timeless tale that brilliantly renders the struggle between the ironbound world of tradition and a rebellious soul seeking to prove the power of a dream.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, romantic figures who cross treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms, to bring news, gossip, songs, and stories to a waiting populace. Maris of Amberly, a fisherman’s daughter, wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. So she challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen by merit rather than inheritance. But even after winning that bitter battle, Maris finds that her troubles are only beginning. Now a revolution threatens to destroy the world she fought so hard to join—and force her to make the ultimate sacrifice.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Martin and Tuttle make wonderful professional music together . . . shifting easily from moments of almost unbearable tension to others of sheer poetry and exhilaration.”—\u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.”—Roger Zelazny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“It’s romance. It’s science fiction. It’s beautiful.”—A. E. van Vogt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“I didn’t mean to stay up all night to finish \u003ci\u003eWindhaven,\u003c\/i\u003e but I had to!”—Anne McCaffrey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWindhaven\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful flight of the imagination . . . wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.”\u003cb\u003e—Roger Zelazny\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Jane Yolen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a romance. It’s science fantasy. It’s beautiful.”\u003cb\u003e—A.E. van Vogt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s brilliant.”\u003cb\u003e—Robert Jordan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A grand feast and pageant: George R. R. Martin has unveiled for us an intensely realized, romantic but realistic world.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Clash of Kings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Destined to be one of the best fantasy series ever written.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Denver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rivals T. H. White’s \u003ci\u003eThe Once and Future King\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Des Moines Register\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Lisa Tuttle’s \u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning. This novel shows us that what we hide from ourselves, and what we make up, may be more real than reality itself.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLost Futures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Kathleen Ann Goonan, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge R. R. Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of many novels, including those of the acclaimed series A Song of Ice and Fire—\u003ci\u003eA Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Dance with Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e—as well as \u003ci\u003eTuf Voyaging, Fevre Dream, The Armageddon Rag, Dying of the Light, Windhaven\u003c\/i\u003e (with Lisa Tuttle),\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dreamsongs Volumes I \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e II\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the creator of \u003ci\u003eThe Lands of Ice and Fire,\u003c\/i\u003e a collection of maps featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, and \u003ci\u003eThe World of Ice \u0026amp; Fire,\u003c\/i\u003e with Elio M. García, Jr., and Linda Antonsson. As a writer-producer, he has worked on \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, \u003c\/i\u003eand various feature films and pilots that were never made. He lives with the lovely Parris in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Lisa   Tuttle\u003c\/b\u003e won the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer in 1974 and has since gone   on to author numerous short stories and novels, including \u003ci\u003eLost Futures,\u003c\/i\u003e which was   short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pillow Friend.\u003c\/i\u003e More recently   she has written several books for children. Texas-born, she now lives with her husband   and daughter in a remote area on the west coast of Scotland, where the scenery and   weather are very similar to the seascapes of Windhaven.\u003cb\u003eMaris rode the storm\u003c\/b\u003e ten feet above the sea, taming the winds on wide cloth-of-metal wings. She flew fiercely, recklessly, delighting in the danger and the feel of the spray, not bothered by the cold. The sky was an ominous cobalt blue, the winds were building, and she had wings; that was enough. She could die now, and die happy, flying. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe flew better than she ever had before, twisting and gliding between the air currents without thought, catching each time the updraft or downwind that would carry her farther or faster. She made no wrong choices, was forced into no hasty scrambles above the leaping ocean; the tacking she did was all for joy. It would have been safer to fly high, like a child, up above the waves as far as she could climb, safe from her own mistakes. But Maris skimmed the sea, like a flyer, where a single dip, a brush of wing against water, meant a clumsy tumble from the sky. And death; you don’t swim far when your wingspan is twenty feet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaris was daring, but she knew the winds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAhead she spied the neck of a scylla, a sinuous rope dark against the horizon. Almost without thinking, she responded. Her right hand pulled down on the leather wing grip, her left pushed up. She shifted the whole weight of her body. The great silver wings—tissue thin and almost weightless, but immensely strong—shifted with her, turning. One wingtip all but grazed the whitecaps snapping below, the other lifted; Maris caught the rising winds more fully, and began to climb. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeath, sky death, had been on her mind, but she would not end like that—snapped from the air like an unwary gull, lunch for a hungry monster. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinutes later she caught up to the scylla, and paused for a taunting circle just beyond its reach. From above she could see its body, barely beneath the waves, the rows of slick black flippers beating rhythmically. The tiny head, swaying slowly from side to side atop the long neck, ignored her. \u003ci\u003ePerhaps it has known flyers,\u003c\/i\u003e she thought then, \u003ci\u003eand it does not like the taste. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe winds were colder now, and heavy with salt. The storm was gathering strength; she could feel a trembling in the air. Maris, exhilarated, soon left the scylla far behind. Then she was alone again, flying effortlessly, through an empty, darkening world of sea and sky where the only sound was the wind upon her wings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn time, the island reared out of the sea: her destination. Sighing, sorry for the journey’s end, Maris let herself descend. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGina and Tor, two of the local land-bound—Maris didn’t know what they did when they werent caring for visiting flyers—were on duty out on the landing spit. She circled once above them to catch their attention. They rose from the soft sand and waved at her. The second time she came around they were ready. Maris dipped lower and lower, until her feet were just inches above the ground; Gina and Tor ran across the sand parallel to her, each beside a wing. Her toes brushed surface and she began to slow in a shower of sand. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally she stopped, lying prone on the cool, dry sand. She felt silly. A downed flyer is like a turtle on its back; she could get on her feet if she had to, but it was a difficult, undignified process. Still, it had been a good landing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGina and Tor began to fold up her wings, joint by foot-long joint. As each strut unlocked and folded back on the next segment, the tissue fabric between them went limp. When all the extensors were pulled in, the wings hung in two loose folds of drooping metal from the central axis strapped to Maris’ back. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We’d expected Coll,” said Gina, as she folded back the final strut. Her short dark hair stood out in spikes around her face. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaris shook her head. It should have been Coll’s journey, perhaps, but she had been desperate, longing for the air. She’d taken the wings—still her wings—and gone before he was out of bed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He’ll have flying enough after next week, I expect,” Tor said cheerfully. There was still sand in his lank blond hair and he was shivering a little from the sea winds, but he smiled as he spoke. “All the flying he’ll want.” He stepped in front of Maris to help her unstrap the wings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I’ll wear them,” Maris snapped at him, impatient, angered by his casual words. How could he understand? How could any of them understand? They were land-bound. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe started up the spit toward the lodge, Gina and Tor falling in beside her. There she took the usual refreshments and, standing before a huge open fire, allowed herself to be dried and warmed. The friendly questions she answered curtly, trying to be silent, trying not to think, \u003ci\u003eThis may be the last time.\u003c\/i\u003e Because she was a flyer, they all respected her silence, though with disappointment. For the land-bound, the flyers were the most regular source of contact with the other islands. The seas, daily storm-lashed and infested with scyllas and seacats and other predators, were too dangerous for regular ship travel except among islands within the same local group. The flyers were the links, and the others looked to them for news, gossip, songs, stories, romance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Landsman will be ready whenever you are rested,” Gina said, touching Maris tentatively on the shoulder. Maris pulled away, thinking, \u003ci\u003eYes, to you it is enough to serve the flyers. You’d like a flyer husband, Coll perhaps when he’s grown—and you don’t know what it means to me that Coll should be the flyer, and not I. \u003c\/i\u003eBut she said only, “I’m ready now. It was an easy flight. The winds did all the work.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGina led her to another room, where the Landsman was waiting for her message. Like the first room, this was long and sparsely furnished, with a blazing fire crackling in a great stone hearth. The Landsman sat in a cushioned chair near the flames; he rose when Maris entered. Flyers were always greeted as equals, even on islands where the Landsmen were worshipped as gods and held godlike powers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the ritual greetings had been exchanged, Maris closed her eyes and let the message flow. She didn’t know or care what she said. The words used her voice without troubling her conscious thought. \u003ci\u003eProbably politics, \u003c\/i\u003eshe thought. \u003ci\u003eLately it had all been politics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the message ended, Maris opened her eyes and smiled at the Landsman—perversely, on purpose, because he looked worried by her words. But he recovered quickly and returned her smile. “Thank you,” he said, a little weakly. “You’ve done well.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was invited to stay the night, but she refused. The storm might die by morning; besides, she liked night flying. 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