The novel “Storm in Windy Harbor” occupies a special place both in Martin’s work and in world science fiction in general. It is a poetic, fascinating story of a distant planet. Planets where the inhabitants of centuries and centuries huddle on tiny islands, separated by the expanse of an endless ocean, promising death to the few desperate sailors who are ready to take the risk and overcome the path from island to island on their fragile boats. Planets where islands for centuries and centuries are connected only by the wanderings of flyers - the chosen ones who carry news from island to island. The chosen ones who pass on their wings from generation to generation. The chosen ones, into whose circle it is almost impossible to get into... This has been the case for centuries and centuries. But now the time of change is coming...