To be a flyer is a great honour, but a very elite one as flyers can only pass their wings on to a member of their own family. In Windhaven Maris is a fisherman's daughter living on the island of Lesser Amberly, in fact, she is the fisherman's adopted daughter which is a crucial plot point, for on the water World of Windhaven where news, and songs and stories are carried between the myriad islands of this world by the flyers borne high on silver wings that are fashioned from the remains of a space ship that crashed on the planet years ago. Secondly it was written when Martin and Tuttle were partners, and perhaps, thirdly, Martin had still to get his series writing mojo on at this point in his career, as this was written years before he started Game of whatchamacallit? Also, while he still had to pen that vampire classic Fevre Dream, his writing career did lurch slightly with the failure of his epic, end-of-the-world, horror novel, The Armageddon Rag which diverted him into the world of writing and developing TV series. One reason could be that it is a single volume story, following the life of its major protagonist, Maris. van Vogt who died in the year 2000, another from one of my favourite writers, Roger Zelazny, who died further back in 1995 – can you believe that? Twenty years ago! And there is one from Anne McCaffrey who died relatively recently in 2011, and perhaps the McCaffrey quote is apt given the subject matter of Windhaven and the potential it had for being turned into a series like McCaffrey’s 'Pern' books, but this never happened. Martin & Lisa Tuttle, Gollancz, £16.99, trdpbk, 381pp, ISBN 978-4-0ġ981! That long ago? Well perhaps the quotes on the back cover give away just how old this book is, or rather the owners of the quotes.
Martin and Lisa Tuttle, Windhaven is fantasy at its best.Review of Windhaven by George R. In a unique collaboration from two of the 20th century's greatest imaginations, George R. Maris' rebellious crusade to change this inequality, and earn back her wings, has deeper consequences for Windhaven than anyone could have possibly imagined. Birthright - not ability - has always governed the right to fly. However, just as it seems that she has found her true calling, the hereditary dogma which rules the skies sets out to strip Maris of her wings. Maris was born to fly as her raw talent blossoms into peerless skill, it appears her childhood fantasies have come true. For Maris, dreams are not enough, and through an unlikely twist of fate, she has a taste of what life as a flyer is like.
These 'land-bound' can only dream of what it must be like to take to the skies. The common people rely on this elite class to support their way of life. On the stormy planet of Windhaven, flyers are idolised as the vital link between its disparate islands.
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