Previous SFF Author: Cindy Dees
(1952-2009)
Thomas Franklin Deitz was an American novelist from Georgia. He had a B.A. and M.A. in medieval English from University of Georgia and was on the English faculty at Gainesville State College. Deitz won the Phoenix Award in 2007. This award is given at the annual DeepSouthCon to a professional who has done a great deal for Southern Fandom. Tom Deitz died of heart failure in 2009.
Tom Deitz spends rather a lot of time during the course of Bloodwinter telling the reader just how extraordinarily awful the winters of his fantasy kingdom of Eron are, how Herculean must be the efforts of those who seek to cross the frozen wasteland. Without getting cuter with this analogy, there were stretches where I felt much the same about reading the novel.
That isn’t to say that Bloodwinter is ever painful to read. Deitz has an excellent command of language and he uses it well,
Tim Scheidler´s rating: 2.5 | Tom Deitz | SFF Reviews | 2 comments |
Previous SFF Author: Cindy Dees
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