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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
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. |
Same here.
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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
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.
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I had my suspicions that it wasn't typical fantasy fare pretty early, but wasn't certain until the electric lights in chapter eight.