Mistress of the Waves
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marycatelliMistress of the Waves by George Phillies
On another world, the narrator is fishing from her boat when an off-worlder is swept from his. She has to rescue him -- they are not used to worlds as low tech as hers.
The other one takes her off planet for treatment; she had, after all, been breathing water. While on their ship, she sees her planet, Goddard, from space.
She wants to see it again. When she returns to the planet, she starts to plan, an interesting thing in a world where all ships are sailing, oil lamps are the height of illumination, water mills and muscle are their power sources. And all is ruled by the Hundred Thousand books, though, unbeknownst to her, there are those who find her contact with the off-worlders a danger.
She does realize she will need money, and more knowledge from off-worlders, and sets out, despite being thrown out of school as she talked about the off-worlder clothing and was ready to graduate. It involves fishing, learning about trade, mills, what the autodoc (which she first took for Doctor Otto) did to heal her, questions of lending money, helping two orphans, more attempts than forcing her out of school to stop her, and more.
It ends at a decision point, and there's room for a sequel, but it's a definite ending point.
On another world, the narrator is fishing from her boat when an off-worlder is swept from his. She has to rescue him -- they are not used to worlds as low tech as hers.
The other one takes her off planet for treatment; she had, after all, been breathing water. While on their ship, she sees her planet, Goddard, from space.
She wants to see it again. When she returns to the planet, she starts to plan, an interesting thing in a world where all ships are sailing, oil lamps are the height of illumination, water mills and muscle are their power sources. And all is ruled by the Hundred Thousand books, though, unbeknownst to her, there are those who find her contact with the off-worlders a danger.
She does realize she will need money, and more knowledge from off-worlders, and sets out, despite being thrown out of school as she talked about the off-worlder clothing and was ready to graduate. It involves fishing, learning about trade, mills, what the autodoc (which she first took for Doctor Otto) did to heal her, questions of lending money, helping two orphans, more attempts than forcing her out of school to stop her, and more.
It ends at a decision point, and there's room for a sequel, but it's a definite ending point.