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I'm looking for a sci-fi book about a female pilot/magician. She had 2 husbands; one was also a pilot, the other was the mechanic for the engines. They tune the hulls of the ships to various musical notes and navigate by reading tarot symbols in space. They are looking for the lost way to Earth.










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  • Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

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I'm looking for a sci-fi book about a female pilot/magician. She had 2 husbands; one was also a pilot, the other was the mechanic for the engines. They tune the hulls of the ships to various musical notes and navigate by reading tarot symbols in space. They are looking for the lost way to Earth.










share|improve this question

























  • Piers Anthony wrote a book about tarot and spaceships: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71083/51379. Not sure whether that’s the one, though.

    – Adamant
    Feb 3 '17 at 6:40













  • Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:27











  • The Piers Anthony book is?

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:35











  • scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84300/51379

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 10:38











  • If you click the green checkmark on the correct answer, it will mark the question as answered.

    – Brythan
    Feb 18 '17 at 4:57














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I'm looking for a sci-fi book about a female pilot/magician. She had 2 husbands; one was also a pilot, the other was the mechanic for the engines. They tune the hulls of the ships to various musical notes and navigate by reading tarot symbols in space. They are looking for the lost way to Earth.










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I'm looking for a sci-fi book about a female pilot/magician. She had 2 husbands; one was also a pilot, the other was the mechanic for the engines. They tune the hulls of the ships to various musical notes and navigate by reading tarot symbols in space. They are looking for the lost way to Earth.







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  • Piers Anthony wrote a book about tarot and spaceships: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71083/51379. Not sure whether that’s the one, though.

    – Adamant
    Feb 3 '17 at 6:40













  • Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:27











  • The Piers Anthony book is?

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:35











  • scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84300/51379

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 10:38











  • If you click the green checkmark on the correct answer, it will mark the question as answered.

    – Brythan
    Feb 18 '17 at 4:57



















  • Piers Anthony wrote a book about tarot and spaceships: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71083/51379. Not sure whether that’s the one, though.

    – Adamant
    Feb 3 '17 at 6:40













  • Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:27











  • The Piers Anthony book is?

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 1:35











  • scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84300/51379

    – Adamant
    Feb 6 '17 at 10:38











  • If you click the green checkmark on the correct answer, it will mark the question as answered.

    – Brythan
    Feb 18 '17 at 4:57

















Piers Anthony wrote a book about tarot and spaceships: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71083/51379. Not sure whether that’s the one, though.

– Adamant
Feb 3 '17 at 6:40







Piers Anthony wrote a book about tarot and spaceships: scifi.stackexchange.com/a/71083/51379. Not sure whether that’s the one, though.

– Adamant
Feb 3 '17 at 6:40















Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

– Teri Gould
Feb 6 '17 at 1:27





Oh! Thank you this is the book I was looking for - I love the entire series and now can see if I am able to purchase it again!!!

– Teri Gould
Feb 6 '17 at 1:27













The Piers Anthony book is?

– Adamant
Feb 6 '17 at 1:35





The Piers Anthony book is?

– Adamant
Feb 6 '17 at 1:35













scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84300/51379

– Adamant
Feb 6 '17 at 10:38





scifi.stackexchange.com/q/84300/51379

– Adamant
Feb 6 '17 at 10:38













If you click the green checkmark on the correct answer, it will mark the question as answered.

– Brythan
Feb 18 '17 at 4:57





If you click the green checkmark on the correct answer, it will mark the question as answered.

– Brythan
Feb 18 '17 at 4:57










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I believe you may be looking for Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) by Melissa Scott.



Book cover




In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"




The hull of the ship is tuned with a harmonium to travel through space:




The essential parts of a starship were the sounding keel and the harmonium. The keel was made of a base metal impregnated with the Philosopher's Tincture, the only celestial substance that could exist in the mundane world. The tincture in
the keel always sought to return to the transcendent, nonmaterial world--heaven--beyond apparent reality, but was bound down by the material substances with which it was surrounded. Only under stimulus from the harmonium, which was tuned to as close an approximation of the music which ruled heaven as was humanly
possible, could the tincture rise toward heaven, first fleeing the elemental earth of a planet's core, then rushing faster and faster into the void between the stars, where the barriers between the mundane and the. celestial were thinnest. The rest of the ship, riding on the keel, was drawn up with it.




The lady pilot is Silence Leigh. The two husbands are Denis Balthasar and Chase Mago. Balthasar is the owner/captain of the ship and Chase Mago is the engineer.



Silence has discovered a lost route to Earth in an old book:




Silence smiled, suddenly calm, knowing that she held the answer to the one question that would fascinate Isambard and save them all.



"I know the road to Earth, Isambard. I will take you there."



She was aware that Balthasar was staring open-mouthed at her, and then she heard him mutter, "That old book. Of course," but she could not spare the time to nod to him.




This is the first book of a trilogy. The other two books are Silence in Solitude and Empress of Earth.






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    I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

    – John Rennie
    Feb 4 '17 at 11:40











  • thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 21:47











  • the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

    – Teri Gould
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I believe you may be looking for Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) by Melissa Scott.



Book cover




In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"




The hull of the ship is tuned with a harmonium to travel through space:




The essential parts of a starship were the sounding keel and the harmonium. The keel was made of a base metal impregnated with the Philosopher's Tincture, the only celestial substance that could exist in the mundane world. The tincture in
the keel always sought to return to the transcendent, nonmaterial world--heaven--beyond apparent reality, but was bound down by the material substances with which it was surrounded. Only under stimulus from the harmonium, which was tuned to as close an approximation of the music which ruled heaven as was humanly
possible, could the tincture rise toward heaven, first fleeing the elemental earth of a planet's core, then rushing faster and faster into the void between the stars, where the barriers between the mundane and the. celestial were thinnest. The rest of the ship, riding on the keel, was drawn up with it.




The lady pilot is Silence Leigh. The two husbands are Denis Balthasar and Chase Mago. Balthasar is the owner/captain of the ship and Chase Mago is the engineer.



Silence has discovered a lost route to Earth in an old book:




Silence smiled, suddenly calm, knowing that she held the answer to the one question that would fascinate Isambard and save them all.



"I know the road to Earth, Isambard. I will take you there."



She was aware that Balthasar was staring open-mouthed at her, and then she heard him mutter, "That old book. Of course," but she could not spare the time to nod to him.




This is the first book of a trilogy. The other two books are Silence in Solitude and Empress of Earth.






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

    – John Rennie
    Feb 4 '17 at 11:40











  • thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 21:47











  • the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 22:01
















8














I believe you may be looking for Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) by Melissa Scott.



Book cover




In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"




The hull of the ship is tuned with a harmonium to travel through space:




The essential parts of a starship were the sounding keel and the harmonium. The keel was made of a base metal impregnated with the Philosopher's Tincture, the only celestial substance that could exist in the mundane world. The tincture in
the keel always sought to return to the transcendent, nonmaterial world--heaven--beyond apparent reality, but was bound down by the material substances with which it was surrounded. Only under stimulus from the harmonium, which was tuned to as close an approximation of the music which ruled heaven as was humanly
possible, could the tincture rise toward heaven, first fleeing the elemental earth of a planet's core, then rushing faster and faster into the void between the stars, where the barriers between the mundane and the. celestial were thinnest. The rest of the ship, riding on the keel, was drawn up with it.




The lady pilot is Silence Leigh. The two husbands are Denis Balthasar and Chase Mago. Balthasar is the owner/captain of the ship and Chase Mago is the engineer.



Silence has discovered a lost route to Earth in an old book:




Silence smiled, suddenly calm, knowing that she held the answer to the one question that would fascinate Isambard and save them all.



"I know the road to Earth, Isambard. I will take you there."



She was aware that Balthasar was staring open-mouthed at her, and then she heard him mutter, "That old book. Of course," but she could not spare the time to nod to him.




This is the first book of a trilogy. The other two books are Silence in Solitude and Empress of Earth.






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

    – John Rennie
    Feb 4 '17 at 11:40











  • thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 21:47











  • the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 22:01














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8







I believe you may be looking for Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) by Melissa Scott.



Book cover




In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"




The hull of the ship is tuned with a harmonium to travel through space:




The essential parts of a starship were the sounding keel and the harmonium. The keel was made of a base metal impregnated with the Philosopher's Tincture, the only celestial substance that could exist in the mundane world. The tincture in
the keel always sought to return to the transcendent, nonmaterial world--heaven--beyond apparent reality, but was bound down by the material substances with which it was surrounded. Only under stimulus from the harmonium, which was tuned to as close an approximation of the music which ruled heaven as was humanly
possible, could the tincture rise toward heaven, first fleeing the elemental earth of a planet's core, then rushing faster and faster into the void between the stars, where the barriers between the mundane and the. celestial were thinnest. The rest of the ship, riding on the keel, was drawn up with it.




The lady pilot is Silence Leigh. The two husbands are Denis Balthasar and Chase Mago. Balthasar is the owner/captain of the ship and Chase Mago is the engineer.



Silence has discovered a lost route to Earth in an old book:




Silence smiled, suddenly calm, knowing that she held the answer to the one question that would fascinate Isambard and save them all.



"I know the road to Earth, Isambard. I will take you there."



She was aware that Balthasar was staring open-mouthed at her, and then she heard him mutter, "That old book. Of course," but she could not spare the time to nod to him.




This is the first book of a trilogy. The other two books are Silence in Solitude and Empress of Earth.






share|improve this answer















I believe you may be looking for Five-Twelfths of Heaven (Roads of Heaven, #1) by Melissa Scott.



Book cover




In a space-faring civilization where a single woman is increasingly disenfranchised, the star pilot Silence Leigh is defrauded from her inheritance by a greedy competitor. Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"




The hull of the ship is tuned with a harmonium to travel through space:




The essential parts of a starship were the sounding keel and the harmonium. The keel was made of a base metal impregnated with the Philosopher's Tincture, the only celestial substance that could exist in the mundane world. The tincture in
the keel always sought to return to the transcendent, nonmaterial world--heaven--beyond apparent reality, but was bound down by the material substances with which it was surrounded. Only under stimulus from the harmonium, which was tuned to as close an approximation of the music which ruled heaven as was humanly
possible, could the tincture rise toward heaven, first fleeing the elemental earth of a planet's core, then rushing faster and faster into the void between the stars, where the barriers between the mundane and the. celestial were thinnest. The rest of the ship, riding on the keel, was drawn up with it.




The lady pilot is Silence Leigh. The two husbands are Denis Balthasar and Chase Mago. Balthasar is the owner/captain of the ship and Chase Mago is the engineer.



Silence has discovered a lost route to Earth in an old book:




Silence smiled, suddenly calm, knowing that she held the answer to the one question that would fascinate Isambard and save them all.



"I know the road to Earth, Isambard. I will take you there."



She was aware that Balthasar was staring open-mouthed at her, and then she heard him mutter, "That old book. Of course," but she could not spare the time to nod to him.




This is the first book of a trilogy. The other two books are Silence in Solitude and Empress of Earth.







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    I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

    – John Rennie
    Feb 4 '17 at 11:40











  • thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 21:47











  • the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 22:01














  • 1





    I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

    – John Rennie
    Feb 4 '17 at 11:40











  • thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 21:47











  • the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

    – Teri Gould
    Feb 17 '17 at 22:01








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I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

– John Rennie
Feb 4 '17 at 11:40





I have the book so I've added the details mentioned in the question. Please roll back my changes if you don't like them.

– John Rennie
Feb 4 '17 at 11:40













thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

– Teri Gould
Feb 17 '17 at 21:47





thanks to everyone who answered. I now have the book on my NOOK reader and am enjoying it as this month's selection. I limit myself to one new book per month; in this case its a series so they count as one selection.

– Teri Gould
Feb 17 '17 at 21:47













the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

– Teri Gould
Feb 17 '17 at 22:01





the answer I was seaking was 7/12 of heaven series. Thanks to all that answered.

– Teri Gould
Feb 17 '17 at 22:01


















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