Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most
eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a
new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in
scope--pushing the genre to new heights.
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a
half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged
half-sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister,
Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard
the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans. On her
far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship
and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and
separation from her twin. And along the way, she will meet a traveler
who has come an unimaginable distance--and who threatens the delicate
balance of the Stratoins' carefully maintained, perfect society.
Both exciting and insightful, Glory Season is a major novel, a
transcendent saga of the human spirit.
