The Silence Leigh trilogy Melissa Scott www.pointsman.net/mpage/mainpage.html
(sneaky trick, I’m going to try adding websites when I can find them so people can get the information on anything that interests them)
Science fiction? Fleets of spaceships outrace light across interstellar space, or meet in conflict above inhabited planets. Fantasy? These ships are run on alchemical principles, philosophers tincture allows them to tune to the harmony of the spheres, the symbol is the object and the map is the territory.
A powerfully phallocratic civilisation, women forced to wear veils when allowed out of purdah, no female to own property (including herself) and getting worse as the Hegemony conquers ever more of the independent planets, technology firmly in the hands of the exclusively male magi – things do not good for Silence Leigh, space pilot and (shock) woman. This trilogy is her story – the others, even her husbands or the magus Isambard, are sketched in, less important than the tarot based navigation system, but she is a strong enough character to carry it.
I’ve tried several other books from this author, but none of them gave me the satisfaction that this (one of her earlier works) did.
(sneaky trick, I’m going to try adding websites when I can find them so people can get the information on anything that interests them)
Science fiction? Fleets of spaceships outrace light across interstellar space, or meet in conflict above inhabited planets. Fantasy? These ships are run on alchemical principles, philosophers tincture allows them to tune to the harmony of the spheres, the symbol is the object and the map is the territory.
A powerfully phallocratic civilisation, women forced to wear veils when allowed out of purdah, no female to own property (including herself) and getting worse as the Hegemony conquers ever more of the independent planets, technology firmly in the hands of the exclusively male magi – things do not good for Silence Leigh, space pilot and (shock) woman. This trilogy is her story – the others, even her husbands or the magus Isambard, are sketched in, less important than the tarot based navigation system, but she is a strong enough character to carry it.
I’ve tried several other books from this author, but none of them gave me the satisfaction that this (one of her earlier works) did.