Ann Wilson 26 min read

On the wolf-world Sandeman in 2624, Dana hikes with her chosen lord, hungry and happy after failing to track a balik, until she frowns, sure she heard something brushing against the branches.

Ann Wilson's 1992 Terran Empire story is an atmospheric military space opera of loyalty and danger on a warrior world. Engaging fan-tradition SF. Read it for a story steeped in the fierce honor-culture of Sandeman, where a bond between a woman and her thakur is tested against the perils of a harsh frontier planet.

In its time

Published in 1992, during the 1990s, the web age dawns.

Reading it

26 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).