Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the winds of change have come to Nou Occitan. As the invention of the "springer"--instantaneous interstellar travel, at a price--spreads throughout the human galaxy, the stability and purity of no world, no matter how isolated, is safe. Nor can Giraut's life remain untouched. To his wonder, his is about to find himself made an ambassador to a different human world, a place strange beyond his wildest imaginings.
- ISBN10 0812516338
- ISBN13 9780812516333
- Publish Date 15 November 1993 (first published 1 October 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English