From the back cover of the Baen omnibus edition: "Superhuman is not human at all, Tatja Grimm is the smartest person in the whole world... At first she doesn't understand this. After all, she was born a stone-age primitive whose tribe had never seen a knife or a wheel. But it wasn't the lack of amenities that bothered her about life with the aborigines; no, the problem was that they were stupid. That's why she made her trek to Ocean. Its dazzling medieval civilization with its astrolabes, its sail-powered vessels, its literacy - its sheer brute intelligence - thrilled her to the core of her being... for a while. Then disillusionment set in; the people of the sea where no smarter than those back home; they just knew more. But to Tatja Grimm, even an Einstein or a Leonardo would be no more that a cleverer-than-average monkey. At last she understands that to find someone worth talking to she must transform her world, so that she can use it to reach for the stars..."
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