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As a usually lady on a initial hit team, xenolinguist Toni Donato approaching her assignment on Christmas would be to investigate a tip women's denunciation -- though afterwards a arch linguist starts to harm her work. What is behind it? Why do a group and women have apart languages in a initial place? What Toni learns turns all she suspicion they knew on a head.
Originally published in Asimov's in 2003, "Looking Through Lace" was a finalist for a Tiptree and Sturgeon awards. The Italian interpretation won a Premio Italia for best work of suppositional romance in interpretation in 2007.
"Looking Through Lace" is a romance of approximately 20,000 words.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #236497 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-02-23
- Released on: 2011-02-23
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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"'Looking Through Lace' by Ruth Nestvold is superb scholarship fiction. we wish to review some-more of this writer's stories."
- Andi Shechter in January Magazine
"... 'Looking Through Lace' by Ruth Nestvold [is] an intelligent, formidable story illustrating a problems of training and bargain a nuances and intricacies of an visitor denunciation and culture, quite one so identical to a possess that we insist in observation it (wrongly) on a terms.... The reason ... because there are so many differences between a languages of both group and women are judicious and good suspicion out, and a final explanation about a loyal inlet of a attribute between a women and a group comes as a good twist."
- Phil Friel in Tangent Online
"Two clever stories mount out from a rest of a fiction. Ruth Nestvold's 'Looking Through Lace' rests on a comparatively elementary annulment or secret, though a rest of it is solidly created and convincing. The categorical impression is a immature womanlike xenolinguist named Toni -- she is called to a world named Christmas to investigate a Mejan culture. Nestvold presents a neat puzzle, and she takes a time to benefaction it just-so."
- James Schellenberg in Challenging Destiny
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By Kriti Godey
"'Looking Through Lace" 'is a story of Toni, a xenolinguist who is reserved to work with a initial hit team. She's been relegated to doing grunt work until now, and is unequivocally vehement for a event to infer herself.
The visitor universe in '"Looking Through Lace" 'is fascinating - nonetheless a inhabitants are descended from humans, they have a singular story and culture. The women pronounce an wholly opposite denunciation among themselves that a organisation are not authorised to learn, and Toni is dynamic to figure out how and because that happened. However, she has a sceptical comparison co-worker and a affections of an appealing local (who only happens to be in a organisation marriage) to contend with.
I enjoyed reading a science-fiction story by Nestvold; all a other work I've examination by her has been fantasy. She keeps adult a glorious worldbuilding and characters. we found a revelations concerning a story of a universe really interesting. The criminal xenolinguist seemed like a bit of a caricature, though a engaging visitor universe some-more than done adult for it.
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By Athenajewel
The tract of this romance centers around Toni, a xenolinguist who finally gets her large mangle being reserved to a initial hit organisation exploring an visitor planet. After alighting on a planet, we see a organisation onslaught to know both opposite languages and cultures and even gender roles in society. we desired this novella, we wish there was some-more of it! Highly recommended!
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By J. Robert Ewbank
This is an surprising book by Ruth Nestvold. The subject concerns a lady who studies languages and who is operative on a apart world to learn a languages oral there. The subject is not one high on my list of interests, though she creates that subject engaging for me, so she did a good job. An engaging b ook.
J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and a 'Isms'"
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