Golden Witchbreed (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Gentle
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alien civilization
- Time of Work: Indeterminate future
- Setting: The planet Orthe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extrasensory perception or powers, Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
In Mary Gentle’s Golden Witchbreed (1983), Lynne de Lisle Christie is an empath hired by the Extra Terrestrial department of her government as an envoy to introduce her society to that of an undeveloped planet called Orthe. She experiences at first hand the mixture of curiosity and distrust evinced by the natives and shares in their complex, feudal culture.
When TAn Suthai Telestre (also known as Suthafiori, the flower of the South), the Crown of the Southlands of Orthe, requests that she tour the countryside, visiting the Hundred Thousand households...
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