Child of Fortune Author:Norman Spinrad In every age, the tale is told of the youthful wanderer who sets out on the road from innocence to experience seeking all the joy and pain life has to offer. Other times and places have called them vagabonds, hippies or gypsies, tinkers or ronin, beats or bohemians. In the exotic, interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, they we... more »re known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, Wendi Shasta Leonardo, who sought her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid the many worlds of man.« less