A Point of Honor

by Dorothy J. Heydt

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

Fic SF Heydt

Genres

Science Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collections

Your library, Read, ebooks, High rated read

Publication

DAW (1998), Paperback, 320 pages

Description

Sir Mary de Courey is the doughtiest knight in the virtual reality land of Chivalry. But when, in the real world, her plane crashes and her car is driven off the road, she finds herself in more trouble than single combat can solve. Someone appears to want to retrieve the mysterious manor that she won from an anonymous knight, and is willing to kill her to get it back. Now she must travel through the world of Chivalry to find the secret door that leads from the most mundane of Virtual Reality libraries to the most magicalof worlds! Dorothy J. Heydt is a frequent contributor to DAW's popular Sword and Sorceress series edited by New York Times bestselling author Marion Zimmer Bradley Combines the swashbuckling fantasy elements of Sword and Sorceress with modern science fiction Will appeal to fans of fantasy role-playing games Gorgeous cover art by Romas… (more)

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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

Love it - as always. The SCA as VR is a wonderful concept, and so are the other worlds. Virtual dungeon-delving sounds like a lot of fun...not personally interested in war reenactment or mecha, but those who are would love that too. Programming as magic, and functional - recognizable code and

comments, visible to those that have the rights to see and/or modify them. And then the functional uses of VR - that's one thing I didn't see, much, in Omnitopia Dawn (well, virtual conferences...and actually, the file structure for Omnitopia itself showed up that way, we just didn't see it being used elsewhere). Anyway. Fun story - mystery, and quest, and enough slice-of-life to see how the world works in this universe. There are just a few infodumps - places where a phrase was used that is the only thing a member of the SCA would have said in that situation, that would be totally opaque to someone who hadn't gotten an explanation - and the book just gave the explanation, without making it so that the speaker was explaining _to_ anyone. I stumbled over those, but nothing too terrible, and writing around the problem would have been complicated at best. Very very good - one of those rare "bests" among books for me. I've read it literally dozens of times and expect to do the same again.

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LibraryThing member wunder

Lovely read. Would you like a book that is equal parts SF and fantasy, where the tech doesn't feel dated after two decades, and the final scene is an Advent celebration? Then this is your book.

I picked this up because I loved "The Interior Life" by the same author. I was not disappointed.

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Language

English

Original publication date

1998

Physical description

320 p.; 6.8 inches

ISBN

0886777917 / 9780886777913

DDC/MDS

Fic SF Heydt

Fic SF Heydt

Rating

½ (21 ratings; 3.7)

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