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Laddar... The Gate that Locks the Tree: A Minor Melant'i Play for Snow Season (2020)av Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  wildwily | May 28, 2020 |   Unusual in that there is little science in the fiction. There is plenty in the greater Liaden Universe, but this story has only a single robot and some brief mention of planets and ships. Really, between cats, healers, and a sentient tree, it feels more fantasy. The quality of the writing is superior to most other works. There is a lyrical flow and almost tongue-in-cheek formality. This both is and isn’t a good place to begin reading about Clan Korval. As a small taste, it gives you a good sense of the writing style. It does, however, fall rather late in the saga that stretches over a dozen books and a massive number of short stories. This won’t confuse you if you start here and go back to the beginning, as most of the events alluded to in the story here are merely hinted at. I will always buy Liaden stories. Every new one makes me want to reread the whole series again, and that always makes me happy. (  ) wildwily | May 28, 2020 |  ) jjmcgaffey | Apr 28, 2020 | This is a novella told in chapters from a variety of viewpoints including a cab driver transplanted from Solcintra who has always used the tree as a beacon and a young woman who cares for cats and is on Surebleak to take the tree to task for not fulfilling a promise made to the cat in her care. Still other chapters are centered on Val Con and Miri who learn startling new things about the way Jeeves, the cats, and the tree communicate. This was an entertaining novella. It illustrates the depth and breadth of the Liaden Universe which is filled with interesting beings and stories. ( ) kmartin802 | Mar 4, 2020 | If you like your Liaden™️ cute at 11, it's here. (  ) quondame | Feb 21, 2020 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i serienAdventures in the Liaden Universe (chapbooks) {Lee & Miller} ((The Gate that Locks the Tree: A Minor Melant’i Play for Snow Season) 30) Liaden Universe Chronological Order {Lee & Miller} ({short stories 30}) Liaden Universe Publication Order {Lee & Miller} ({Adventures 30: The Gate that Locks the Tree})
A cat may look at a tree. This is especially true when the winds of change blow through the universe, leaving eddies of luck, uncertainty, and necessity in the strangest places - and surely Surebleak qualifies as a strange place, as Korval's Tree qualifies as a strange attractor. In the rough and tumble aftermath of Clan Korval's arrival, Surebleak attracts rude mercenaries, pilots galore, Scouts, grifters, and, from time to time, those who have lived under the promise of Korval's Tree, elsewhere. Chaotic change is in progress, daily. Bring together legitimate cabbies and fare-jumpers, a sudden Surebleak blizzard, a pregnant cat, and odd young woman with a mission; add the heat of promises made light years away, and you find the winds of change rocking the very roots of the Korval's house, blown against the very gate that locks the tree. It may be that not even the Tree knows what happens next. This is a brand-new novella set in the bestselling Liaden Universe created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller! Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
LibraryThing-författareSharon Lee är en LibraryThing-författare, en författare som lägger upp sitt personliga bibliotek på LibraryThing. Pågående diskussionerIngen/ingaPopulära omslag
 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999BetygMedelbetyg: (4.29)
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Unusual in that there is little science in the fiction. There is plenty in the greater Liaden Universe, but this story has only a single robot and some brief mention of planets and ships. Really, between cats, healers, and a sentient tree, it feels more fantasy.
The quality of the writing is superior to most other works. There is a lyrical flow and almost tongue-in-cheek formality.
This both is and isn’t a good place to begin reading about Clan Korval. As a small taste, it gives you a good sense of the writing style. It does, however, fall rather late in the saga that stretches over a dozen books and a massive number of short stories. This won’t confuse you if you start here and go back to the beginning, as most of the events alluded to in the story here are merely hinted at.
I will always buy Liaden stories. Every new one makes me want to reread the whole series again, and that always makes me happy. (