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Turnings [MultiFormat]
eBook by Laura Anne Gilman
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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Viv knew what was going to happen in her life, and was content. Until a stranger came into her peaceful, orderly life, and made her realize what she had already lost...
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Realms of Fantasy, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [155 KB], eReader (PDB) [20 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [5 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [70 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [76 KB], hiebook (KML) [24 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [35 KB], iSilo (PDB) [4 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [6 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [12 KB]
Words: 1647
Reading time: 4-6 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"Laura Anne Gilman provides an interesting look at life in 'Turnings.' During most of civilization, life as a series of repeated days; from birth to death nothing changed on the macrolevel. In 'Turnings' Gilman successfully presents the cyclic traditions of such a society. However, while nothing major changes, on the personal level enormous changes could take place in the twinkling of an eye, and it is these changes, set against the unchanging society, that 'Turnings' successfully examines."--Steven H. Silver, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)
"This marvelously poetic short short is a love story in my favorite mode: ill-fated lovers from two different worlds orbit each other for a time, dancing around a decision that could destroy them both. The joy is in the exquisite imagery, and the very real emotion ... With style and strength, Gilman creates a lovely, charmingly ornamented little romance."--Bluejack Reviews
Viv was a daughter of the soil, born to the changing of the seasons, raised with the steady beat of the land. Her hair was black and her eyes were brown, and when she smiled, as she often did, it was the gentle rain on fresh-turned dirt. And when she sang for her kin, as she often did, it was the warming sun on green-tipped leaves.
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