Wind Child

Wind #2

by R.M. Meluch

"Now Daniel alone remained to carry his mother's message of survival. But to accomplish his mission Daniel had to learn how to communicate with the winds."

Genres: Science Fiction

202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 4, 1982

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wind Child was Meluch's third novel, published in 1982 by Signet with a nice space-battle cover by Paul Alexander. It's a sequel to Wind Dancers, which appeared from the same publisher the previous year, and picks up the story quite well. It has a very well-developed setting with a pair of opposing societies, one native and one human, and one of the humans goes on an interstellar quest in order to save the natives from extinction. He has several intriguing adventures and learns more than he bargained for. Some of the plot twists seem too complex for such a short book, but I enjoyed it overall, as I did the first one, too.

[James]

Wind Child

[Gail Johndrow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read as a young person. The uniqueness of the story has stuck with me for a long time now. The idea of a nonhuman race fighting against the human "colonizers"- well, I always root for the underdog.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good read! R.M. Meluch is one of my favorite authors and I have read only one book by her that I didn't enjoy reading.

[future faith freedom homeschool · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my all time favorite books that is worthy of a reread every so often.

[Vroom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliantly written and touching without sacrificing the Science Fiction sense of wonder