- martial arts, American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
A retired weapons master is roused from retirement by a girl who wants to be trained to avenge her family
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- C. J. Cherryh
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Mandarin, Baen, Baen Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780749302436
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“Shoka was well on his way back to the porch when the apparition came out of the forest, a huge lump moving on two thin legs, that proved only a basket and a skinny boy in a hat.”
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
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