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Three Observations and a Dialogue
After WisCon 20, Sylvia Kelso engaged Lois McMaster Bujold in a rich, snappy correspondence about Bujold¿s Vorkosigan novels. ¿You ... remark that `[my] post-modern despair is not [your] emergency¿ over the failure of feminism to transform SF,¿ she wrote to Bujold. ¿My postmodern despair OUGHT to be your emergency, buen'amiga, because one of the reasons you are being ignored is that ... you don't fit the male canon either in the community or the critical industry; so unless you catch their eyes with a sand-blaster like The Left Hand of Darkness, the male academics are also gonna find you invisible...¿ That correspondence became ¿Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction and...
The River's End
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Source: An Amberlight Novel
On the River, after the fall of Amberlight, Tellurith and her folk meet the greatest crisis of all... Demolition A great lord's power and position, lost... A seven-hundred year old regime, collapsed... Love and loyalty tried past breaking point.... Destruction Bloody revolution... A threat become loss too tragic to forget.... Discovery Goals suffered and sacrificed for, to evaporate in the hands... Love undreamt of, unheralded, unforeseen... Secrets to shatter an empire.... Disaster Loss of love, loss of home, loss and more loss in battle... Grief, torment, immanent ruin of all dreams, all hopes.... Revelation Calamity, shock, enemies' dissolution... Undreamt of victory... Secrets that trans...
Amberlight
A CITY . . . Amberlight, the ruler of the Riverworld. A MYSTERY . . . Qherrique, the foundation of Amberlight's wealth. Amberlight's unique possession, whose mother-lodes keep Riverworld rulers on their thrones. AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR . . . She leads the most powerful House in Amberlight. He's an amnesiac mugging victim, found bleeding to death on the street. So why should it matter, if he dies? What he's forgotten could be the city's deadliest danger. What he shows her changes her life. What she means to him changes his own life. But intrigue and insurrection and brutal warfare threaten any future for their love. “Amberlight is peopled with vivid characters that stormed up off the page into permanent residence in my mind and memory, in a unique world, and driving an original plot. If some writers' prose sings, Kelso's is an opera.” Lois McMaster Bujold, Author of Paladin of Souls “Sumptuous, sensuous, and passionate, Amberlight is completely delightful. Sylvia Kelso is a master of world-building, beautiful prose, and sheer romance.” Delia Sherman, co-author of The Fall of the Kings
Adventures with a Promethean
Geneva, 1818.M. Anton Zyli, a Swiss banker, incorrigibly curious, a closet romantic, shackled as heir to the family business by his elder brother's death.Mrs. Mary Godstone, mother of a two-year-old, almost-widow of a notable poet, an enigmatic Englishwoman, teaching the language for her bread.William, a very large being of startling aspect, "not born, but made," at the behest of noble and powerful men, but rejected and abandoned almost at his first breath. Unable to go elsewhere, he lurks in the mountains, dependent on Mrs. Godstone and Anton to survive.Now William's chief creator is returning, perhaps to eliminate William, possibly to repeat his "birth." His rank and power are formidable. Even if the three allies could thwart his plans, where could they evade his revenge?Perhaps in South America? But even the fabled waters of the Amazon carry injustice and oppression along with its lethal predators. Is there any safe refuge for William, let alone the woman whose wits and courage Anton may come to love?
Biology and Manners
Thisvolume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an importantauthor of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. It argues persuasively thatBujold's corpus spans the distance between two full arcs of US feminism, andhas anticipated or responded to several of its current concerns in ways thatinvite or even require theoretical exploration. The fourteen essays collected here provide wide-ranging scholarly analysesof Bujold's work and worlds so far, covering not only the science fiction and fantasyseries, but taking into account the wealth of ancillary material inspired byher works, such as fan fiction and role-playing games. Examining the majorseries through a range of perspectives, including feminist readings, queertheory, and disability studies, this volume aims to establish beyond doubt theseriousness of intent behind Bujold's various artistic projects and provide aset of rich readings of this engaging, experimental, playful, and popularauthor.
The River Quest
The River is dying. Seven years have passed with no rain, no melting snow, and no reason why. Then Arxes, crown prince of an unimportant middling kingdom, sees in a dry canal a spring, where a maiden wades, wearing a crown of jewel-blue flowers. The kingdom's soothsayer deems it an omen, revealing the drought's cause is magic, with its only solution at the River's mysterious Source. Arxes finds himself declared Quester, his sole advice for the journey, "Only set out!"On the road, Arxes and his staunch comrade Ervan will track the River through desert, forest, city and steppe, encountering an emperor, an enchantress, a shaman, a witch. They will meet unforeseen friends and foes, gods, monsters, beings out of myth; they will risk the elemental perils of lightning, fire and ice. And before the River can flow again, the last in a long line of crucial decisions will bring the hardest choice of Arxes' life.
Dragonfly: An Amberlight Novel
Hunting Darkness... Chaeris is the hope of her family and her community, a potential Seer, child and yet companion of Amberlight's reborn mystery, the qherrique. Therkon is crown prince and defender of a damaged empire, seeking answers to storms that wreck trade and fling ashore refugees from the distant Archipelago. And with them, word of a menace that still has no name. Over land, over sea, through unexpected perils and amid unlooked-for friendship, they find themselves driven to a deadly meeting in the ruined Isles, under a darkness that threatens to destroy them -- and who can See a dawn beyond?
Riversend
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