Women of War

6 best books like Women of War (Tanya Huff): The Witches of Eileanan, The Sorceress and the Cygnet, A World Out of Time, With the Lightnings, The X Factor, Young Bleys

The Witches of Eileanan

Author	Kate Forsyth
ISBN	0451456890

In the Celtic land of Eileanan, witches and magic have been outlawed, and those caught for practicing witchcraft are put to death! It is a land ruled by an evil Queen, where sea-dwelling Fairgean stir, and children vanish in the night. But in a valley deep in the mountains, young Isabeau grows to womanhood...

The Sorceress and the Cygnet

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441775675

Corleu was different from the typical dark-haired Wayfolk. His blond hair and his fascination with the legends and children's rhymes about the Cygnets, Gold King, Blind Lady, Dancer, and Warlock set him apart.

When Corleu and a band of Wayfolk become trapped in an endless swamp, he crosses...

A World Out of Time

Author	Larry Niven
ISBN	0345336968

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars.

But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where...

With the Lightnings

Author	David Drake
ISBN	0671578863

Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the Republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects since her family was massacred for conspiring against the Government of Cinnabar. Kostroma...

The X Factor

Author

Andre Norton

Diskan Fentress, mutant son of an interstellar explorer, felt himself out of place on the luxury worlds of civilized space. It was not until he stole a spaceship and a travel key to the unexplored planet Mimir that he first felt his latent powers to be of some worth.

For Mimir was a world of strange...

Young Bleys

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0312931301

I've been slowly downsizing, part of which involves dumping books on the local library. Some of the books I've decided to re-read before parting with. Among that category are the books in Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle.

When I first read it I thought it lacked the originality and wonder of the...