A Time of Changes
Language: English
Publisher: Panther
Published: Jun 15, 1975
Awards:
Nebula.Best Novel.Winner.1972
List Of Awards:
Nebula
Date Read:
Feb 6, 2014
Form:
Novel
Pages:
233
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Word Count:
77244
Book Details
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Description:
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture. One of the strangest is on Borthan, where the founding settlers established the Covenant, which teaches that the self is to be despised, and forbids anyone to reveal his innermost thoughts or feelings to another. On Borthan, the filthiest obscenities imaginable are the words "I" and "me." For the heinous crime of "self-baring," apostates have always paid with exile or death, but after his eyes are opened by a visitor from Earth, Kinnall Darival, prince of Salla, risks everything to teach his people the real meaning of being human.With a new introduction by the author, and the first-ever map of Borthan, this classic, out of print since 1992, is a fantastic new addition to the Orb imprint.