Point of Hearts
Just finished reading "Point of Hearts" by Melissa Scott, published by Queen of Swords Press.
Melissa Scott is one of my favorite authors. I discovered her back in 1990 when her novel "Mighty Good Road" was released, and I found it on the shelves of the new arrivals section of the Science Fiction and Fantasy area of Michelle's Bookstore Store.
Now one of the most curious things about buying Scott's novel is that it didn't get me another visit from the NIS at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The NIS had paid me a visit after I had ordered "So You Want To Be A Wizard" by Diane Duane, who said that she was bi-sexual in a in Locus Magazine interview. So my purchase was reported to the NIS and I got paid a visit by NIS agents who asked why I was reading a "gay" novel. Keep in mind that while Dad was an officer in the USMC, I was a civilian who the NIS attempted to recruit several times, but I wasn't interested. The implication was that if I was reading a "gay" novel by a gay author, then I was "gay." I handed the book over to them, which I had finished reading at the time, and asked them to turn to the page that had gay characters and gay sex scenes. They couldn't because there were none. So, thankfully, there wasn't a repeat visit since I wouldn't have been able to pull off the same "trick" twice because "Mighty Good Road" had gay and lesbian characters, and Scott was a gay writer.
Dad and Mom read a few of Scott's books after we moved to Florida when Dad retired.
"Point Of Hearts" is the sixth novel in Scott's science fantasy Astreiant series. I say science fantasy because Astreiant has two suns in it's sky. She started the series with her late partner Lisa A. Barnett, and wrote four more novels which have been published by independent publishers.
Point of Hearts, Astreiant's pleasure district, is being disrupted by an influx of scheming nobles who have descended upon the city for an aristocratic wedding. Mysterious carts smuggling something unknown through the night time streets and civil unrest are creating suspicion and turmoil. Adjunct Point Nicolas Rathe and his lover, Philip Eslingen, captain in the City Guard, are keeping an eye on an aristocrat under self-imposed house arrest when Rathe is injured during a riot. Pursued by false accusations, Eslingen takes him on the run to Point of Knives while they try to unravel a plot against the queen and her government that could destroy the city they love.
Nico and Philip's relationship has evolved over the series, and in this 6th installment, their relationship is established. Scott uses an archaic word, leman, "meaning sweetheart, lover, or mistress," but here in Astreiant, it has legal status.
Another great entry by Scott in her ongoing Astreiant series.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Point-Hearts-A...
Melissa Scott is one of my favorite authors. I discovered her back in 1990 when her novel "Mighty Good Road" was released, and I found it on the shelves of the new arrivals section of the Science Fiction and Fantasy area of Michelle's Bookstore Store.
Now one of the most curious things about buying Scott's novel is that it didn't get me another visit from the NIS at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. The NIS had paid me a visit after I had ordered "So You Want To Be A Wizard" by Diane Duane, who said that she was bi-sexual in a in Locus Magazine interview. So my purchase was reported to the NIS and I got paid a visit by NIS agents who asked why I was reading a "gay" novel. Keep in mind that while Dad was an officer in the USMC, I was a civilian who the NIS attempted to recruit several times, but I wasn't interested. The implication was that if I was reading a "gay" novel by a gay author, then I was "gay." I handed the book over to them, which I had finished reading at the time, and asked them to turn to the page that had gay characters and gay sex scenes. They couldn't because there were none. So, thankfully, there wasn't a repeat visit since I wouldn't have been able to pull off the same "trick" twice because "Mighty Good Road" had gay and lesbian characters, and Scott was a gay writer.
Dad and Mom read a few of Scott's books after we moved to Florida when Dad retired.
"Point Of Hearts" is the sixth novel in Scott's science fantasy Astreiant series. I say science fantasy because Astreiant has two suns in it's sky. She started the series with her late partner Lisa A. Barnett, and wrote four more novels which have been published by independent publishers.
Point of Hearts, Astreiant's pleasure district, is being disrupted by an influx of scheming nobles who have descended upon the city for an aristocratic wedding. Mysterious carts smuggling something unknown through the night time streets and civil unrest are creating suspicion and turmoil. Adjunct Point Nicolas Rathe and his lover, Philip Eslingen, captain in the City Guard, are keeping an eye on an aristocrat under self-imposed house arrest when Rathe is injured during a riot. Pursued by false accusations, Eslingen takes him on the run to Point of Knives while they try to unravel a plot against the queen and her government that could destroy the city they love.
Nico and Philip's relationship has evolved over the series, and in this 6th installment, their relationship is established. Scott uses an archaic word, leman, "meaning sweetheart, lover, or mistress," but here in Astreiant, it has legal status.
Another great entry by Scott in her ongoing Astreiant series.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/Point-Hearts-A...
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