Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle I have long had a debate in my mind about the place of the woman warrior in fiction, particularly the type most often presented in epic fantasy/sword & sorcery. Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, George R.R. Martin, David Gemmell, and Tobias Buckell, for example, have all included the undaunted, sword-wielding, occasionally bra-defying warrioresses […]
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Ilario by Mary Gentle For pure storytelling, don’t-want-to-stop-reading-it fun, Mary Gentle’s two Ilario books, Ilario: The Lion’s Eye: A Story of the First History, Book One and Ilario: The Stone Golem: A Story of the First History, Book Two, are among the best I’ve read. I lived in Gentle’s world even when I wasn’t actively […]
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Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer Steampunk is an anthology of, well, steampunk stories, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. If you hurry, you can still get to this first anthology before the second one, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, appears in mid November. Based on the quality of the stories in this collection, I […]
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Golden Witchbreed — (1983-1987) Publisher: Enter Lynne Christie, envoy of Earth Dominion. Her mission: to establish first contact with Orthe’s government and evaluate Orthe’s readiness for further Dominion relations, a mission delayed mysteriously by her predecessor’s untimely death upon the Inner Sea. Rat Lords — (1990-1994) Publisher: In a nameless city situated somewhere between the past and […]
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