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Category: Books & Literature
Comments: This book is about the culture clash between humans and an alien species called the hwarhath, who have a completely gender-segregated society. (Everyone thinks everyone else's cultural practices are absolutely appalling.)
The book is told from two alternating POVs. One is Anna Perez, a human woman who was studying possibly intelligent alien life forms, and stumbled into the whole situation by meeting the second POV character, Nicholas Sanders, who was on-planet for diplomatic negotiations. Nick is a human who was captured by the hwarhath 20 years ago and is now working for them as a translator. And he's also romantically involved with the hwarhath general, Ettin Gwarha.
Nick's history with the hwarhath alone could fill a whole archive full of fic, and that's just one half of the story.
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1. Alas, the book is out of print, but it's well worth getting a used copy. You can peek inside the book here at Amazon2. Read this excellent article if you want ( ... )
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O_O do want.
Thanks so much for bringing this into the limelight!
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It's such an amazing book, and I only found it because someone on my flist had stumbled across it. I couldn't believe I'd never heard of it! And I still can't quite believe there's not even Yuletide fic for it. (Yet.)
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