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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION If you ask, she must answer. A steerswoman's knowledge is shared with any who request it; no steerswoman may refuse a question, and no steerswoman may answer with anything but the truth.And if she asks, you must answer. It is the other side of tradition's contract --…

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My first love is science fiction, so reading The Steerswoman was a bit of a departure for me as the story seems to be about wizards and magic. Yet, as Rowan, one of the society of Steerswomen, uses deduction to unravel one mystery, I found myself caught up in the mystery of the world itself. 

Was it just a coincidence that some of the examples of ‘magic’ seemed more like...technology? Yet even as that suspicion began to grow, the story brought Rowan into conflict with a swarm of dragons. What could be more fantasy than that?

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