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The Books of the Black Current: The Book of the River / The Book of the Stars / The Book of Being
The Books of the Black Current The Book of the River / The Book of the Stars / The Book of Being Author:Ian Watson This volume contains the complete Black Current Trilogy. — From time immemorial, the Black Current has defined Yaleen's world. Separating the eastern bank from the unknown western side, it cuts the river -- and the world -- in half, a black strip running down the river's center, from the towering, unscalable Precipices where it seems to ooze out ... more »of the solid rock, to the depths of the ocean: huge, mysterious. and alive.
For like the goddess some believe it to be, the Black Current is aware. It allows men on the water only once, a second try invites madness and death. Only women are granted the freedom of the river, and Yaleen yearns to experience that freedom. So, in search of adventure, she drinks the black essence of the Current and joins the River Guild, beginning a series of voyages that will take her farther than she had ever imagined.
For no one really knows what the Black Current is, and no one has ever crossed it. No one, that is, until Yaleen's brother Capsi discovers a way to get to the western side. The deadly consequences of the forbidden deed thrust Yaleen into the center of a maelstrom of events that could end the world as she knows it. For the long silent Black Current has been watching, planning, growing into consciousness. Now after patient eons, it is about to act. As the far shore called to her brother, the Black Current will summon Yaleen. Young, terrified, yet determined to save her world, she answers it's challenge -- and discovers a being who can turn death into paradise... a being who wants to become a god. But even gods have foes..."
FROM THE BRILLIANT BRITISH AUTHOR IAN WATSON comes an exciting vision of a complex alien planet on which a young woman joins with an aspiring god... and becomes a partner in desperate battle to transform and protect a world.« less
Wade T. (bookbear) reviewed The Books of the Black Current: The Book of the River / The Book of the Stars / The Book of Being on + 56 more book reviews
3 books in one. The tale of a woman on a planet with an intelligent river entity that can only be navigated safely by women. Loved it.