The main caharacter is a woman, a shepherds daughter, who runs away to become a soldier, which she turns out to be very good at. Many sad things happens and that s good beacause that make the story moore real. The story involves the first meeting of the Celts and the people of earth in a near future, as well as a war within Keltia's solar system. Tone is standard, writing style fairly transparent. The story continues the tale of war and treachery in Keltia's solar system, with some of the Terran discoverers at risk.
Tone is standard, writing style fairly transparent.
The setting Soho after the border to Elfland somehow comes to rest in the middle of it is very compelling, especially in the first story, which is set soon after the change when the human things are still recognizable and the human expectations haven t entirely changed yet. A Borderland novel that makes very good use of the Border concept. The central idea is that someone is manufacturing a drug that they claim will turn humans into elves. A number of disaffected humans are taking it and dying of an elven plague, it turns out, not of the drug itself and the racial problems that the drug brings to light are very interesting. I loved the character of Tick-Tick, the elf exiled and estranged from her family because she likes mechanical things.