TITAN’S DAUGHTER – JAMES BLISH

Would you want your son to marry a girl nine feet tall?Sena, the heroine of this remarkable novel, is a tetraploid giantess – taller, stronger, longer-lived than normal men and women…For Sena, who was not yet thirty, the whole small world was in the endless throes of an endless springtide; a youth that would last more than a century, with toy bridges and houses clustered at her feet.But would the jealous “normals” let her live…?