Morris's worldbuilding, with its intricacy and its sensitivity to anthropological and mythological detail, inevitably reminds one of Ursula LeGuin.-Kathryn Hinds, "The Healer's Choice" Phayaden is a shaman tormented with visions that come without ceremony-terrible images of war against the people of the Tashihyel. She fled to the obscurity of her small family clan-but cannot hide from these visions after inviting a god into her home. The demi-god Engidu must guide the war chief Tengis to a test that will transform him. Even he does not know if Tengis will die, or live to be the hero his...