Archive for the 'Fantasy' Category
Unveiling the Sorceress
Writer: Saskia Walker
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 219
Unveiling the Sorceress has a pretty simple plot with an uncommon setting in regards to fantasy. The plot: among the gods, one has decided to directly influence the course of human events by creating unrest in the exotic lands. This leads to the possibility of war, and the peaceful [...]
Apricot Brandy
Writer: Lynn Cesar
Genre: Fantasy/Contemporary
Pages: 300
I was really looking forward to this book. Intriguing title, beautiful cover, and a lesbian protagonist, the latter of which is super-cool, since JUNO has so far published romantic fantasy, so if the protag was a lesbian, I was guaranteed something different. And speaking of different, this modern fantasy takes [...]
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Edited by: Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
Genre: Short Stories/Fiction
Pages: 291
What is interstitial fiction? This short story anthology does its best to find out. From the intro, which defines interstitial being between borders, but something that’s not a hybrid, to each of the 19 stories crafted by some damn talented voices [...]
In the interest of getting some of the links up faster, I’m going to try to put this roundup up in two separate posts. Which stories make it into the first post and which ones make it into the second will be determined by whichever markets it occurs to me to look at first. I also [...]