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Changing Women (Woman of the Iron People,Bk 2)
Changing Women - Woman of the Iron People,Bk 2 Author:Eleanor Arnason Lixia is a Hawaiian anthropologist from an Earth still recovering from the excesses of the 20th century. She's nerving herself up to enter her first alien village at Sigma Draconis. — Nia, a woman of the Iron People, is a smith and a pervert - she once loved a man. Her neighbors drove her from their village in disgrace. Now she has a smithy near ... more »a village of the Copper People -- the village Lixia had come to study.
Lixia's first contact doesn't go well -- she is driven out. Nia takes her in, befriends her, and they become travel companions. Lixia and Nia are joined by Dexter Seawarrior, Ph.D., an Angeleno aborigine. His people prize mellowness and truth; Dexter is devious
and ambitious. He left his tribe, went to school, and is now a tenured professor at Berkeley....
They travel together across a perilous continent.« less