 Author Name: Arnason, Eleanor
Title: A WOMAN OF THE IRON PEOPLE
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Morrow 1991
ISBN Number: 0688103758 / 9780688103750
Illustrator: Ruddell, Gary
Seller ID: 002324
Hardcover first edition, first printing. Minor crinkling to extremities of dustjacket edges from wear, else fine jacket without price-clipping or tears. Not a remainder nor ex-library. Very minor bow to front cover board, else near fine condition. Arnason's first SF novel. Anthropological SF novel surrounding the investigation by a woman scientist of the alien culture on a planet in the Sigma Draconis system. The human survey team is riven by gender and social politics that complicate both the investigation and interpretation of the data gathered from the planet. Critically compared to Vinge's The Snow Queen, Kress' An Alien Light and Slonczewski's Door Into Ocean. See Barron (ed), Anatomy of Wonder 5, II-37.
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