Hmm... might it be his own, if he's got enough Ancient Greek? I might well do likewise, in a similar position to his.
I've never even heard of Maia. How was it?
Not bad. It was a fantasy set in an Iron Ageish empire with... oh, perhaps we might say vaguely Sumerian-esque elements, except not really? The sex might've been a bit excessibe, but wasn't too gratuitous; the titular heroine was a girl sold into slavery by her mother, the latter being jealous over her relationship with her stepfather. She turned out to have some sort of capital-D Destiny. There was a wicked bisexual queen, but the titular heroine and her best friend, a nobleman's daughter kidnapped from some Africa-like place in the far South, were also quite happily bisexual so presumably we weren't meant to take that in the wrong way. He used "baste" or possibly "bast" as a substitute for a popular four-letter verb.
It's been quite a few years. I mostly read it because somebody I dearly loved was reading it when we both were in high school, and then bought a paperback a few years later when I saw it used in a shop because it made me think of her. I've still got that paperback, somewhere. I should find it and read it over again, I suppose.
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Ah. Glad to know.
I don't know whose translation Adams quotes:
Hmm... might it be his own, if he's got enough Ancient Greek? I might well do likewise, in a similar position to his.
I've never even heard of Maia. How was it?
Not bad. It was a fantasy set in an Iron Ageish empire with... oh, perhaps we might say vaguely Sumerian-esque elements, except not really? The sex might've been a bit excessibe, but wasn't too gratuitous; the titular heroine was a girl sold into slavery by her mother, the latter being jealous over her relationship with her stepfather. She turned out to have some sort of capital-D Destiny. There was a wicked bisexual queen, but the titular heroine and her best friend, a nobleman's daughter kidnapped from some Africa-like place in the far South, were also quite happily bisexual so presumably we weren't meant to take that in the wrong way. He used "baste" or possibly "bast" as a substitute for a popular four-letter verb.
It's been quite a few years. I mostly read it because somebody I dearly loved was reading it when we both were in high school, and then bought a paperback a few years later when I saw it used in a shop because it made me think of her. I've still got that paperback, somewhere. I should find it and read it over again, I suppose.