"The Shaper's Daughter"

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The Chronicles from the Nexus are stories that take place long after the home world is lost and among the fading echoes of a transhuman civilization…

"The Shaper's Daughter"

Wherein a young girl is confronted with her mother's past.

Author:	Fritz Freiheit
Type:	Novelette
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Publisher:	Liberty IV Publishing
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Story ID:	SD
World:	CftN
Status:	beta draft
Length:	Novelette
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Description

A novelette by Fritz Freiheit.

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
• Prequel: None.
• Sequel: "The Alchemist of Liberty"
• Status: "The Shaper's Daughter" final draft is complete with a word count of 14,700 as of Nov. 15th, 2007. It is currently being readied for publication.
• 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.

• Captain (SD character)
• Chance (SD character)
• Corporal (SD character)
• Dicky (SD character)
• Fé Apisterra (SD character)
• FarLeaper (SD character)
• Gretta (SD character)
• Henri (SD character)
• Homunculus (SD character)
• Huntress (SD character)
• Overseer (SD character)
• The Night Whippoorwill (SD character)
• Percival "Chance" Mett (SD character)
• Red (SD character)
• Rimbaldi (SD character)
• Sergeant (SD character)
• Shaper Fé Apisterra (SD character)
• The Shaper (SD character)
• Trinette's father (SD character)
• Trinette's mother (SD character)
• Trinette (SD character)
• Victor (SD character)
• Whippoorwill (SD character)

Characters mentioned (but not appearing)

• Trinette's father
• Night Whippoorwill, the

Acknowledgements

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

Misc

• The Shaper's Daughter redirects

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Chronological list of the Chronicles from the Nexus

1. "Stealing a Seed of the Giving-Tree"
2. "Lair of the Feathered Termites"
3. "The Shaper's Daughter"
4. "The Alchemist of Liberty"
5. "Death Rides for Free"
6. "Drink Deep the Wine of Memory"
7. "Up in the Nightgaunts Gang"
8. "Fortress of Wind and Glass"
9. "The Unmodified Man"
10. "Death's Harp has One String"
11. Tactics of Transience
12. "Winters' Unexpected Arrival"
13. "A Sword in the Spokes"

Chronological order of story completion (by ID)

Fritz's Fiction: AG → NC → ToT → SD → AoL → DRfF → UitNG → UM → DHhOS → WUA → FoWaG → AYQZ → LotFT → SitS → SaSotGT → IYE → DDtWoM → DJ → RR → PVCACD → PVSG → NLB → DMN

Chronological order of story completion (by title)

1. "Angst Griffon"
2. "No Cure"
3. Tactics of Transience
4. "The Shaper's Daughter"
5. "The Alchemist of Liberty"
6. "Death Rides for Free"
7. "Up in the Nightgaunts Gang"
8. "The Unmodified Man"
9. "Death's Harp has One String"
10. "Winters' Unexpected Arrival"
11. "Fortress of Wind and Glass"
12. "All You Quantum Zombies"
13. "Lair of the Feathered Termites"
14. "A Sword in the Spokes"
15. "Stealing a Seed of the Giving Tree"
16. "In Your Eyes"
17. "Drink Deep the Wine of Memory"
18. Dispensing Justice
19. The Red Rook
20. Parallel Visions: City of Angels City of Demons
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