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Water Witch (Novel)
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Water Witch is a science fiction
novel by Hugo
and Nebula
award winning author Connie Willis
and Cynthia Felice
first published in 1982
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of Mahali where political power is held by a hereditary line of water witches who can sense and control water. A young con artist girl names Deza tries to impersonate a water witch, helped by the spirit of her recently dead con man father, who now resides in a small animal called a mbuzi.
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
novel by Hugo
Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...
and Nebula
Nebula Award
The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
award winning author Connie Willis
Connie Willis
Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear...
and Cynthia Felice
Cynthia Felice
Cynthia Felice is an American science fiction writer. She published her first novel, Godsfire, as well as her first short story, David and Lindy, in 1978. She has co-authored three novels with Connie Willis...
first published in 1982
1982 in literature
The year 1982 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*La Bicyclette Bleue by Régine Deforges becomes France's best selling novel ever.-New books:...
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Plot introduction
On the desert planetPlanet
A planet is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.The term planet is ancient, with ties to history, science,...
of Mahali where political power is held by a hereditary line of water witches who can sense and control water. A young con artist girl names Deza tries to impersonate a water witch, helped by the spirit of her recently dead con man father, who now resides in a small animal called a mbuzi.
Publication history
- 1982, USA, Ace BooksAce BooksAce Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, and began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns...
ISBN 978-0441873791, Pub Date Jan 1982, Paperback - 1999, USA GK Hall & Company ISBN 978-0783886015, April 1999, Large Print Hardcover