Strands of Starlight
core novel 1989 Strands
Record
| First published | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.99 (745 ratings, collected 2026-11-02) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451163714 |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
Miriam is a young woman with a mysterious gift for healing, and in a Europe-like land called Adria around the year 1350 that gift has made her a fugitive. The Church hunts those it believes touched by evil, and Miriam is hurt by the religious authorities who persecute her. She is saved by elves, who heal her and begin a change in her that leaves her more than human. The novel sets out the world of Adria and the hidden elven people whose lives intersect with the human world, and it opens the sequence that later volumes carry forward across the following centuries.
Where it sits
- Universe: Strands
- Series: Strands core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Gael Baudino
Notes
- Signet printing listed first; a Roc paperback with ISBN 0-451-45316-6 also exists.
- From the series record (Strands): Four novels about elves and their human descendants, from medieval Adria to modern Denver.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Strands: position 1 of 4: next Maze of Moonlight (1993)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Strands of Starlight
- ISFDB mirror: Strands of Starlight, Signet first printing November 1989
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