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Marks of Our Brothers
A linguistics expert deciphers a message and learns aliens from a new planet are capable of emotion, but the government is suppressing the information and she is alone in her battle to save the creatures with sparkling metallic eyes.
248 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Jane Lindskold
129 books655 followersJane Lindskold is the author of more than twenty published novels, including the eight volume Firekeeper Saga (beginning with Through Wolf’s Eyes), Child of a Rainless Year (a contemporary fantasy set in Las Vegas, New Mexico), and The Buried Pyramid (an archeological adventure fantasy set in 1880's Egypt).
Lindskold is also the author of the “Breaking the Wall” series, which begins with Thirteen Orphans, then continues in Nine Gates and Five Odd Honors. Her most recent series begins with Artemis Awakening, released in May of 2014. Lindskold has also had published over sixty short stories and numerous works of non-fiction, including a critical biography of Roger Zelazny, and articles on Yeats and Synge.
She has collaborated with several other SF/F writers, including Roger Zelazny, for whom, at his request, she posthumously finished his novels Donnerjack and Lord Demon. She has also collaborated with David Weber, writing several novellas and two YA novels set in his popular ”Honorverse.” She wrote the short story “Servant of Death” with Fred Saberhagen.
Charles de Lint, reviewing Changer, praised "Lindskold's ability to tell a fast-paced, contemporary story that still carries the weight and style of old mythological story cycles."[1] Terri Windling called Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls "a complex, utterly original work of speculative fiction." DeLint has also stated that “Jane Lindskold is one of those hidden treasures of American letters; a true gem of a writer who simply gets better with each book.”
Lindskold was born in 1962 at the Columbia Hospital for Women, the first of four siblings and grew up in Washington, D.C. and Chesapeake Bay. Lindskold's father was head of the Land and Natural Resources Division, Western Division of the United States Justice Department and her mother was also an attorney. She studied at Fordham, where she received a Ph. D. in English, concentrating on Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern British Literature; she successfully defended her Ph.D. on her 26th birthday.
Lindskold lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, archaeologist Jim Moore.
Lindskold is also the author of the “Breaking the Wall” series, which begins with Thirteen Orphans, then continues in Nine Gates and Five Odd Honors. Her most recent series begins with Artemis Awakening, released in May of 2014. Lindskold has also had published over sixty short stories and numerous works of non-fiction, including a critical biography of Roger Zelazny, and articles on Yeats and Synge.
She has collaborated with several other SF/F writers, including Roger Zelazny, for whom, at his request, she posthumously finished his novels Donnerjack and Lord Demon. She has also collaborated with David Weber, writing several novellas and two YA novels set in his popular ”Honorverse.” She wrote the short story “Servant of Death” with Fred Saberhagen.
Charles de Lint, reviewing Changer, praised "Lindskold's ability to tell a fast-paced, contemporary story that still carries the weight and style of old mythological story cycles."[1] Terri Windling called Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls "a complex, utterly original work of speculative fiction." DeLint has also stated that “Jane Lindskold is one of those hidden treasures of American letters; a true gem of a writer who simply gets better with each book.”
Lindskold was born in 1962 at the Columbia Hospital for Women, the first of four siblings and grew up in Washington, D.C. and Chesapeake Bay. Lindskold's father was head of the Land and Natural Resources Division, Western Division of the United States Justice Department and her mother was also an attorney. She studied at Fordham, where she received a Ph. D. in English, concentrating on Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern British Literature; she successfully defended her Ph.D. on her 26th birthday.
Lindskold lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, archaeologist Jim Moore.
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June 29, 2017
You very quickly realize this is an usual book when you start to read it and notice that it's written in first person PRESENT. ("I walk across the room and sit down by my computer.") Very very few works of fiction are written in that case, but it has the effect of making the action sequences much more immediate and exciting.
This is a "first contact" science fiction novel, as well as one of those "okay, so how do YOU define sentience?" explorations. But unlike, say, H. Beam Piper's "Fuzzy" books, this one doesn't spend a lot of time in a courtroom arguing the issue. At first I wasn't sure about the lead character -- she STARTS OFF the book talking about a murder she's just committed, and about several more that she's planning on very soon. But (spoiler?) eventually she comes to realize that the universe is bigger than her or her desires or her hatreds, and that's important. The book does leave you with several background questions -- like, what IS the stated purpose of this corporation our hero works for, and how did it come to have such seemingly-limitless resources? Oh, by the way -- it's fun to read older SF books and see how the world has changed science fiction. This book was written in the 90's. It's set "in the far future" -- and faxing is still a big thing in it.
The aliens in this book are universally well-presented and interesting, both as species and as individual characters, which is always a plus for me.
This is a "first contact" science fiction novel, as well as one of those "okay, so how do YOU define sentience?" explorations. But unlike, say, H. Beam Piper's "Fuzzy" books, this one doesn't spend a lot of time in a courtroom arguing the issue. At first I wasn't sure about the lead character -- she STARTS OFF the book talking about a murder she's just committed, and about several more that she's planning on very soon. But (spoiler?) eventually she comes to realize that the universe is bigger than her or her desires or her hatreds, and that's important. The book does leave you with several background questions -- like, what IS the stated purpose of this corporation our hero works for, and how did it come to have such seemingly-limitless resources? Oh, by the way -- it's fun to read older SF books and see how the world has changed science fiction. This book was written in the 90's. It's set "in the far future" -- and faxing is still a big thing in it.
The aliens in this book are universally well-presented and interesting, both as species and as individual characters, which is always a plus for me.
August 16, 2014
a protagonist with a shady past fights to prevent a psionic (telekinetic and mind-to-mind speaking with images) species from being classified as animals so their planet can be plundered and colonized.
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