MINDSAIL
first edition
1990 · [London & Sydney]
by Gay, Anne
[London & Sydney]: Orbit, 1990. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. "Her first novel, MINDSAIL (1990) -- like all her works it is a planetary romance -- promisingly describes an alien planet to which the passengers of a crashed human Starship have had to adjust, gradually evolving into fragmented and warring societies in the process. Romance elements -- the female protagonist's rather prolonged search for a husband against dogmatic shibboleths regarding genetics enforced by her stratified world -- interfere to some extent with the revelations, but the book leaves a vivid memory trace." - John Clute, SFE (online). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#93787) (Inventory #: 93787)