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The Shaper's Daughter
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The Shaper's Daughter
- Wherein a young girl is confronted with her mother's past.
A novelette by Fritz Freiheit.
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Description
Wherein a young girl is confronted with her mother's past.
- Series: A Chronicle from the Nexus
- Main Character: Trinette (SD character)
- When: Year 589 TE9
- Where: Savage Mesa, in the northern dimlands of Opyl
- Length: novelette
- Glossary: The Shaper's Daughter Glossary
- Status: "The Shaper's Daughter" final draft is complete with a word count of 14,700 as of Nov. 15th, 2007. It is currently in submission.
- history: Extracted from the second draft of Tactics of Transience on May 17th, 2007.
- See The Shaper's Daughter (spoilers) for a more detailed description.
Characters
- Trinette - a young alpha-jaishin and the main character, Trinette.
- Trinette's mother the Shaper Fé Apisterra
- Henri - a Shaped lemur.
- Rimbaldi - a Shaped lemur.
- FarLeaper - a Shaped squirrel.
- sergeant - a martian beta-jaishin serving on a meduse.
- corporal - a martian beta-jaishin serving on a meduse.
- Overseer - the alpha-jaishin commander of an expedition into the northern dimlands of Opyl.
- Captain - a beta-jaishin commanding a meduse on the Overseer's expedition.
- homunculus - something in a cocoon.
- Chance - an Intrepid.
- Red - an Intrepid.
- Dicky - an Intrepid.
- Gretta - an Intrepid.
- Victor - an Intrepid.
Characters mentioned (but not appearing)
Glossary
Prequel(s)
None
Sequel(s)
Thanks for the Feedback
I'd like to thank the following people for their comments, criticisms, and other forms of feedback on the various incarnations of "The Shaper's Daughter":
- Alex Pournelle
- Chris Hocking
- Eric Hall
- Gretchen Grey
- Jason Withrow
- Jeff Jackson
- Katarina Thomas
- Lane Whittaker
- Merideth Dunn-Wall
- Paul Turnbull
- Phil Pournelle
- Savanna Wallace
- Syd Bridges
- Theo Freiheit
- Tracy Bennett
- and the members of the Ann Arbor Area Writers' Group
