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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. bluetyson | Dec 16, 2008 |   I've written two reviews of this book. Check out either my 2007 Livejournal entry or my 2008 Bookspotcentral review (  )Valashain | Apr 5, 2008 | martlet | Jul 10, 2007 | Best known for his A Song of Fire and Ice series, this is Martin's first novel; and it definitely reads like a freshman effort. The setting is interesting enough, if derivitave of Asimov's Foundation, and maybe Niven's Known World; and the characterizations offer a glimpse of the good things the author would do later in his Fire and Ice books... Read the rest of my review of Dying of the Light on my blog, The Nerd is the Word. http://nerdword.blogspot.com/2006/01/... (  )Totalnerd | Jun 3, 2007 | graspingforthewind | Jan 29, 2007 | 0.034 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553383086, Paperback)A whisperjewel summoned him to Worlorn, and a love he thought he’d lost. But Worlorn isn’t the world Dirk t’Larien imagined, and Gwen Delvano is no longer the woman he once knew. She is bound to another man, and to a dying planet that is trapped in twilight, forever falling toward night. Amid this bleak landscape is a violent clash of cultures in which there is no code of honor—and the hunter and the hunted are often interchangeable.Caught up in a dangerous triangle, Gwen is in need of Dirk’s protection, and he will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means challenging the barbaric man who has claimed her—and his cunning cohort. But an impenetrable veil of secrecy surrounds them all, and it’s becoming impossible for Dirk to distinguish between his allies and his enemies. While each will fight to stay alive, one is waiting for escape, one for revenge, and another for a brutal, untimely demise. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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There is an interstellar backdrop to this novel, but pretty much all the story takes place on a planet with atavistic customs, that developed because of an epidemic that killed 99% of women, by only 90% of men.
A man travels that at what he thinks is a request from an old lover. He falls foul of the customs and principles there, and ends up in a duel and on the run with her with people trying to remove his foreign head, and her two 'husbands' if you want to call them that are not very pleased with him either.
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