Mapping Winter by Marta Randall
Mapping Winter (2019) is Marta Randall’s reworking of her 1983 novel, The Sword of Winter. (Randall talks more about the story behind the book here.) Its release as Mapping Winter was followed shortly by the all-new sequel The River South, with the two novels making up the RIDERS GUILD series. It’s a secondary-world fantasy, but without magic; I was about two-thirds of the way through the book when I realized,
September 13th, 2019. Kelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Marta Randall | SFF Reviews | 11 comments |
Aluminum Leaves by Marion Deeds
Aluminum Leaves (2019) is the debut novella by Marion Deeds, who is also part of the review team here at Fantasy Literature. Because Marion is one of our own, we are not going to give Aluminum Leaves a star rating — but we still wanted to highlight her work in the field of speculative fiction. We are very excited to see her share her work with the world.
Aluminum Leaves begins with a house fire;
September 13th, 2019. Skye Walker, Jana Nyman and Bill Capossere | Marion Deeds | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 6 comments |
In the prologue to Kari Wallace’s debut adult novel, Salvation Day (2019), we witness the fate of the huge spaceship House of Wisdom after a biological weapon killed every member aboard except for a 12 year old boy named Jaswinder Bhattacharya, whose mother engineered his escape.
Now it’s a decade later and Jaswinder is a young man, well-educated, talented, and famous for his survival. A group of cultish separatists who are angry at the way they’ve been treated by Earth’s government plan to kidnap Jaswinder so they can gain access to House of Wisdom and get away from Earth.
September 13th, 2019. Kat Hooper´s rating: 2.5 | Kari Wallace | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | no comments |
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