The waterdancer's world
By: L. Timmel Duchamp
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781619761094
Subjects: Art and state; Imperialism; Life on other planets; Fiction
Description: "Humans have been struggling to live on Frogmore for almost five centuries, adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the arts and daughter of the general commanding the planet's occupation forces, dreams of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet's natural wealth so difficult and impede her father's efforts to crush the native insurgency. Fascinated by the new art-form of waterdancing created by Solstice Balalzalar celebrating the planet's indigenous lifeforms, Inez assumes that patronage will be enough to sustain Solstice's art even as she ruthlessly pursues windfall profits at the expense of all that has made waterdancing possible."--