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Young Responsible seeks the traitor, who attempted to sabotage the meeting that was to decide the future of the planet Ozark, among the Twelve Families.Tags
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An odd reading experience - the world building was good, lots of originality and interesting settings. But the plot had me puzzled. I never could figure out why Responsible went on her quest, what her actual role was, (some kind of leader) and how she got so good at magic when women aren't supposed to.
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Suzette Haden Elgin was born Patricia Anne Wilkins on November 18, 1936 in Missouri. She received a PhD in linguistics from the University of California at San Diego in 1973. She taught there from 1972 to 1980, when she retired to focus on her writing full time. Her books include The Communipaths, Furthest, At the Seventh Level, Yonder Comes the show more Other End of Time, Twelve Fair Kingdoms, The Grand Jubilee, A First Dictionary and Grammar of Láadan, Peacetalk 101, and Native Tongue Trilogy. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978. The organization's Elgin Award, for best poetry book and chapbook of the year, is named in her honor. She wrote The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook. She was also widely published as a linguist. Her works include the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series. She died on January 27, 2015 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1981
- People/Characters
- Responsible of Brightwater; Terrance Merryweather McDaniels; Thorn of Guthrie; Patience of Clark; Troublesome of Brightwater; Granny Golightly (show all 7); Granny Copperdell
- Important places
- planet Ozark; Arkansaw; Kintucky; Marktwain; Mizzurah; Oklahomah (show all 19); Tinaseeh; Castle Airy; Castle Brightwater; Castle Clark; Castle Farson; Castle Guthrie; Castle Lewis; Castle McDaniels; Castle Motley; Castle Purdy; Castle Smith; Castle Traveller; Castle Wommack
- First words
- I should have known that something was very wrong when the Mules started flying erratically.
- Quotations
- "There are those," I said, "as let every little thing put them off their duty. I am not one of those." (page 141, first edition)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That at least, considering the way I'd been having to spend my nights, I had earned.
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