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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1584916" data-attributes="member: 5171">Read it and liked it.&nbsp; I found her creation of a new society fascinating, and the writing itself was always crisp and sensual at the same time.&nbsp; She makes amazingly good word choices to get the most out of her language.I think that this novel might have suffered by being mislabeled -- Ellen is working on the Interstitial Arts group, which is a big fancy term that roughly means &quot;we're kind of cross-genre&quot; but which has suffered early on by being turned into a bludgeon or a net, used to either co-opt any fiction that the members like or beat down anything that the members don't like.&nbsp; Swordspoint was, I believe, listed as one of the reasons for founding the group -- a novel that takes place in another world, and has swords, but isn't exactly fantasy per se (although the followup novel comes much closer).&nbsp; If Borders put this novel in the Literary Fiction section, it would have been seen as a wonderful metaphorical tale in the study of gender politics.&nbsp; Stuck in the SF shelf, it's kind of unfairly labelled &quot;fantasy without magic or monsters or anything but sword-fights, and also, there's some gay stuff&quot; by many.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1584916, member: 5171"] Read it and liked it. I found her creation of a new society fascinating, and the writing itself was always crisp and sensual at the same time. She makes amazingly good word choices to get the most out of her language. I think that this novel might have suffered by being mislabeled -- Ellen is working on the [i]Interstitial Arts[/i] group, which is a big fancy term that roughly means "we're kind of cross-genre" but which has suffered early on by being turned into a bludgeon or a net, used to either co-opt any fiction that the members like or beat down anything that the members don't like. Swordspoint was, I believe, listed as one of the reasons for founding the group -- a novel that takes place in another world, and has swords, but isn't exactly fantasy per se (although the followup novel comes much closer). If Borders put this novel in the Literary Fiction section, it would have been seen as a wonderful metaphorical tale in the study of gender politics. Stuck in the SF shelf, it's kind of unfairly labelled "fantasy without magic or monsters or anything but sword-fights, and also, there's some gay stuff" by many. [/QUOTE]

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