A highly intelligent barbarian girl navigates a resource-poor world, rising aboard a vast floating sci-fi magazine ship while seeking her origins and confronting larger threats.
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A highly intelligent barbarian girl navigates a resource-poor world, rising aboard a vast floating sci-fi magazine ship while seeking her origins and confronting larger threats.
Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge's first full-length novel
As a mud-spattered youngster, Tatja quickly realized she was different from the stone-age primitives with whom she grew up. Her insatiable curiosity and thirst for knowledge could not be quenched among them; she had to explore and learn more about the strange world she lived on.
She finds the bastion of all culture, arts, entertainment and history for the entire planet, the seven-hundred-year-old science fiction magazine Fan...
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References to conflict with a ruthless regent and hostile antagonist
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Explores intelligence disparities, cultural development, and societal structures on a pre-industrial world
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Mentions of a barbarian upbringing and ruthless rule
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