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This is a basic sword and sorcery quest, with a Patricia McKillip-style introspective main character. Herewiss contains powerful magic, but he cannot harness it, not even to save his beloved and best friend, an overthrown king. Two very interesting aspects of this book: 1)the culture accepts various sexualities without a blink of an eye (even fire elemental/human) and 2)readers of DD's later-written "So You Want to Be a Wizard" series will recognize threads of the same spiritual beliefs (most ob
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I was pretty young when I read this and my main memory is of the awful cover, which was really badly drawn and had some anatomically incorrect, inexplicably blue person on it (not the cover shown here). Otherwise I just recall it being about some people on a quest, with some bisexuality and goddess stuff thrown in. Duane does a good job eliding gender roles and depicting non-gendered/alternative behavior in a natural-seeming way, but I don't think I much cared about the characters or what they w
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