Jinian Footseer
by Sheri S. Tepper
Land of the True Game: Jinian (1), Land of the True Game (7), Land of the True Game: Chronological (07 (Jinian 01))
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Unlike everyone else in her highborn family, fourteen-year-old Jinian of Stoneflight Demesne has no Talent. While her brothers have true Talents such as flying, mind-reading, and shape-shifting, Jinian's only minor ability is as a Footseer--even blind-folded, her feet can follow the Old Road as it winds through the lands of the True Game. Without a Talent, Jinian can only be a pawn in the Game, as she learns when her brother, Mendost, decides to marry her off to the rival lord of Dragon's show more Fire Demesne in order to make an alliance. Not willing to be a mere pawn, Jinian leaves the only home she has ever known and sets off on a journey of discovery--one that will reveal who she really is, her hidden Talent, and her role in the True Game.... show lessTags
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In the True Game world. I really like Jinian as a heroine, and as the lost daughter of a dervish, she is just neat and unique (even in her own world).
Read as the first book in the omnibus edition, "The End of the Game"
See King's Blood Four.
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Sheri S. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas on July 16, 1929 near Littleton, Colorado. She held numerous jobs before becoming a full-time author including working at Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1986, eventually becoming the executive director. In the early 1960s, she wrote poems and children's stories under the name Sheri show more S. Eberhart. In the 1980s, she became a feminist and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her books include The Revenants, After Long Silence, The Gate to Women's Country, Grass, Shadow's End, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, The Family Tree, Six Moon Dance, Singer from the Sea, The Fresco, The Visitor, The Companions, and The Margarets. She received the Locus Award for Beauty and a World Fantasy life achievement award in 2015. She also wrote horror under the name E. E. Horlak and mysteries under the names A. J. Orde and B. J. Oliphant. She died on October 22, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1985
- People/Characters
- Jinian
- First words
- I began to write this account upon the Wastes of Bleer, by firelight as others slept, sure I would die upon the morning.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And for that little time, that was enough.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 4
