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Ammonite
Nicola Griffith

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A first novel — winner in 1993 of both the James Tiptree, Jr.
Memorial Award & the Lamda Award for lesbian science
fiction & fantasy
“Ammonite is a marvelous blend of high adventure and
mind-boggling social speculation—it marks the arrival of Nicola
Griffith as a new sf star for the 90s.”
—KIM STANLEY ROBINSON

Marghe awoke to dawn and hard-edged thoughts. The compass damage
might be as temporary as her proximity to the standing stones; there was
only one way to find out. She dragged her pack through the tent flap, stood
and stretched, and looked around.
Fear slapped the breath back into her lungs.
She was surrounded by riders on motionless horses. Shrouded in mist,
they looked like apparitions or otherworld demons. Marghe lifted her arms
to show she was weaponless and walked stiffly toward the nearest figure.
The rider snapped down her spear.
“Stranger, why do you stand in the ringstones of the Echraidhe? The
penalty for soiling the stones of our ancestors is death.”
The spear moved as the rider balanced it for a belly thrust. Fascinated,
Marghe watched the point pull back for the disembowelling stroke…


A Del Rey Book BALLANTINE BOOKS, NEW YORK
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright © 1992 by Nicola Griffith
 All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States of America by
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-97048
ISBN 0-345-37891-1
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: February 1993


For Kelley, who fills my life with grace.