Book completed
Elder Race, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. In the far distant future, a world originally colonized by humans now has feudal societies and a low level of technology. A warrior princess, the fourth daughter of the ruler, hopes she can get more respect from her family if she successfully helps a neighboring society get rid of a strange demon plaguing its lands and people, so she travels up to the mountaintop to ask the local wizard for help. After all, he'd been a great help for her people a few generations back. Unfortunately, the wizard is simply an anthropologist sent to study the cultural evolution among the colonists, and not a particularly good one. Will he be able to help? It's an entertaining and quick read, and I expect I'll enjoy reading it again too.