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I’ve heard for a long time that George R.R. Martin was a titan of SFF well before branching into epic fantasy, but while I’d meant to circle back to his older work, there was always something a bit higher on the TBR. Then I saw a review of Windhaven , a fix-up novel consisting of three novella-length sections which came highly recommended and also fit a couple tricky Bingo squares. And so it was finally time to read an older Martin book, this one co-authored by Lisa Tuttle.

Windhaven takes place on an ocean world where scattered islands are separated by stormy, monster-infested waters that make sea travel an uncertain proposition even in the best of times. But the world’s residents have constructed enormous wings from the ruined ships of their spacefaring ancestors, allowing a small number of people to ride the winds and provide communication between islands.…