The Spirit Gate

I stopped reading Sword and Fantasy books years ago because they all felt like retreads. This is completely different from the "same old, same old" trilogies that line the shelves. It's an excellent book, full of vivid characters who are human in many ways but from a really alien set of cultures. (One of the most interesting parts of the book is the way she introduces you through the different characters to the different cultures that share this world.) As in 24, people die unexpectedly, minor characters grow in prominence, and there's a new adventure around every corner.

A single day in the heat of armed conflict can shape the future of the world.

Yet while some battles rise up as the cornerstones of history, others fade in our cultural memory, forgotten as minor skirmishes. Why is this so? What makes a battle "important"?

Provides a reference for the names, and their meanings of all named minor planets. Informs about the discoverers as well as the circumstances of the discovery of all 10,666 minor planets numbered up to June 1999.