Kala's

Therefore, they try and set him up at Kala's when he is tasked with retrieving one of Kynon's captains, Freka, from his overindulgence in Shanga.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Secret of Sinharat - Leigh Brackett Blue Tyson 2010

It concerns a family vacation and the daughter's (Kala's) indifference towards it, an unassertive mother along for the ride and a brother, Sandor, who is determined to prove his manliness.

REVIEW: 2007 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2007

It concerns a family vacation and the daughter's (Kala's) indifference towards it, an unassertive mother along for the ride and a brother, Sandor, who is determined to prove his manliness.

REVIEW: Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition edited by Rich Horton 2007

His choice resonates through the millennia that have followed, and even the most progressive members of Kala's society accept almost unthinkingly the notion that women are, in the end, a commodity, a necessary tool when starting a new life.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

Kala's branch of the church is one of the more premissive ones--they don't practice poligamy, and acknowledge the existence of the first colonist's 'angry wives'--and Kala's family stand by her when she is shunned for her brother's actions.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

Kala's religion revolves around the glorification of this process, equating the colonists to Adam and Eve, but there is an original sin at the source of this semi-nomadic way of life--the first man to colonize an alternate Earth did so accompanied by a hundred kidnapped women.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

The same urge to dominate that informs gender relations in Kala's world is also present in the impulse to remake the new Earths in the old Earth's image--a process which, Kala discovers, will inevitably lead to an ecological catastrophe--and it is up to Kala and her brother to find a way to escape their society's destructive attitudes towards gender and ecology alike.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

The kidnapping of unwilling 'wives' is therefore not an uncommon crime in Kala's society, and although it is officially frowned upon, when Kala's brother rescues her from such a fate and maims her kidnapper, the greater blame is placed on his violent actions.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

A mechanic at the service station the family arrive at assures Kala's father that he has a 'Lady's Room' where Kala and her mother can be safe--a room that can bolted from the inside.

The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

He was setting something of a fashion, much to Rena's silent amusement and Kala's open glee.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002