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Originally Posted by RosemaryKirstein
Dazrin: It's a good point. I'm always interested in finding out at what point each reader realized that it was science fiction -- but in this case you all knew right up front.
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I may be one of the few who didn't know how
The Steerswoman was officially classified before reading it. I didn't participate in the discussions and voting -- just saw several strong recommendations in the
What are we reading? thread. So I decided to get a copy from Amazon, read it and join the discussion.
I was quite unsure whether this fell into science fiction or fantasy for at least the first third of the book, and even now that I'm convinced it's SF, it still has the "character" of an epic fantasy. If I hadn't had a bunch of on request books suddenly show up at the library, I'd already be deep into book 2 or even 3.
I'm eager to find out whether this is a world like Pern where people have forgotten that technology even existed after being stranded on a new planet. Or perhaps they have been plunged into pre-technological existence after a major apocalyptic event -- or something even different (scientific and/or social experiment?). I'm glad there are several more books set in this world since I like LONG books and LONG series. (I figure if I'm going to invest a lot of time and interest in these people, they should stick around for a while!)
Thanks to Rosemary for participating in the discussion.