I’ve been meaning to read Elizabeth Bear for some time now, and after taking up Worlds Without End‘s Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, Range of Ghosts came out on top of that list. I was almost put off immediately after reading the first few pages – the premise is great, but the prose seemed uncomfortably…
Forty-five years ago, Ursula K. Le Guin laid the foundation for what is now the modern wizard in fantasy in A Wizard of Earthsea. It is a coming-of-age tale of Ged, a ‘chosen’ young man from the island of Gont, with wizards, dragons, and demons plentiful. What’s that you say? A young man with dreams…
Jo Fletcher Books is publisher to many good authors, including Tom Pollock, Snorri Kristjansson, and one Sarah Pinborough. Sarah is author to many dark stories, including her Dog Faced Gods horror series, as well as rewritten fairy tales, one being Poison (Snow White) and another being Beauty (Sleeping Beauty). I’ve yet to read any of her other work, so…
(This post is tough to repair to presentability after the migration from Blogger to WP, I apologize.) So I’m only half a year late to the party, but I decided to jump on board and participate in Worlds Without End’s 2013 Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge. The challenge is to read 12 books by…
