FREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. -- Damien Broderick & Paul Di Filippo, in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010. her] compassion for even minor characters is evident on every page, and her prose is measured and alluring without being overworked.
Kirstein] walks the tightrope between fantasy and science fiction with precision and grace... - Jo Walton, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner, author of Among Others and Farthing. you\'re really in luck. ...] If you like science, and if you like watching someone work out mysteries, and if you like detailed weird alien worlds and human cultures, if really good prose appeals...
I think they have a very good claim to be my favorite thing still being written.
Or worse -- lie.
Because one kind of knowledge has always been denied the the steerswomen: Magic.
If you haven\'t read Kirstein\'s Steerswoman books I envy you the chance to read them now for the first time....
It is the other side of tradition\'s contract -- and if you refuse the question, or lie, no Steerswoman will ever again answer even your most casual question.
And so, the steerswomen - always seeking, always investigating - have gathered more and more knowledge about the world they travel, and they share that knowledge freelyUntil the day that the Steerswoman Rowan begins asking innocent questions about one small, lovely, inexplicable object...
Her discoveries grow stranger and deeper, and more dangerous, until suddenly she finds she must flee or fight for her life.
A steerswoman\'s knowledge is shared with any who request it; no Steerswoman may refuse a question, and no Steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth.
And if she asks, you must answer.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer
