Winter Reckoning is the first science fantasy

Science fantasy

Science fantasy is a mixed genre within speculative fiction drawing elements from both science fiction and fantasy. Although in some terms of its portrayal in recent media products it can be defined as instead of being a mixed genre of science fiction and fantasy it is instead a mixing of the...

 novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Noel-Anne Brennan. It was first published in 1986

1986 in literature

The year 1986 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Michael Grade. Controller of BBC One, axes plans to televise Ian Curteis's The Falklands Play.-New books:*Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils...

 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 650 copies which were signed by the author.

Plot introduction

The novel concerns the adventures of Molly Kerbridge, a member of the Planetary Federation, on a world called Tringe. There she encounters the Fnick, a reptilian race intent on conquest.