Courtship Rite (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection), Donald Kingsbury, 97807394718

Welcome to our listing\n\nWe are a brick and mortar shop located in the historic market town of Driffield\nAll our listings are what we have in stock and the photos we use are of the actual item, no stock photos pulled off the internet are used.\nWe have for a sale a nice copy of the following bookNice condition hardbackA vast alien landscape, a human culture based on our own, yet evolved in strange ways by the forces of an inimical nature provide a panoramic backdrop for the romantic adventures of a large cast of memorable & attractive characters. Courtship Rite is an SF novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in Analog magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of his other stories, such as \""Shipwright\"" (1978) and the unpublished \""The Finger Pointing Solward\"". In the UK, the novel was entitled Geta; in France, Parade nuptiale. Courtship Rite was the 1st winner of the Compton Crook Award for best first novel and was nominate.