Words by Friends
Aug. 7th, 2012 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThe nice thing is that friendship doesn't obscure critical judgement. I know this, because I have friends I love who have written books that frankly I think are just awful. This gives me an unwonted confidence, those occasional times I sally forth waving banners that cry "This is going to be fabulous!"
So: my to-be-read-immediately pile just got taller and more teetery, by virtue of:
From Whence You Came
A Lands Vin Novella by Laura Anne Gilman
Published by Book View Cafe $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-61138-177-1
Centuries before the Vineart War, massive sea-serpents roamed the seas, endangering the lives of all who sailed there. Only the greatest magic could keep them in check, and protect the coastlines from their depredations. And then...they disappeared. Legend credited Master Vineart Bradhai, and called him a hero.
Legend.... is not always accurate. And often, the truth is a better story.
And also:
The Grass King's Concubine
by Kari Sperring
Published by DAW $7.99 ISBN: 978-0756407551
When a wealthy young woman, obsessed with a childhood vision of a magical Shining Palace, sets out with her true love to search for a legendary land, she discovers the devastated WorldBelow - the realm of the Grass King - and the terrifying Cadre, who take her prisoner, and demand she either restore the king's concubine... or replace her.
And furthermore:
Love on the Run
By Katharine Kerr
Published by DAW $7.99 ISBN: 978-0756407629
Nola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse, the San Francisco of Terra Six.
Terrorists have turned parts of that city into a deathtrap—religious fanatics, yes, but from what religion? Nola suspects that the Peacock Angel Chaos cult lies behind the bombings and mass murders. As she gathers evidence, she finds herself face-to-face with part of her own personal past that she’d prefer to bury forever.
And by the way, just who is it that keeps trying to kill her?
Hee. My biggest problem is, which to read first...?
So: my to-be-read-immediately pile just got taller and more teetery, by virtue of:
From Whence You Came
A Lands Vin Novella by Laura Anne Gilman
Published by Book View Cafe $4.99 ISBN: 978-1-61138-177-1
Centuries before the Vineart War, massive sea-serpents roamed the seas, endangering the lives of all who sailed there. Only the greatest magic could keep them in check, and protect the coastlines from their depredations. And then...they disappeared. Legend credited Master Vineart Bradhai, and called him a hero.
Legend.... is not always accurate. And often, the truth is a better story.
And also:
The Grass King's Concubine
by Kari Sperring
Published by DAW $7.99 ISBN: 978-0756407551
When a wealthy young woman, obsessed with a childhood vision of a magical Shining Palace, sets out with her true love to search for a legendary land, she discovers the devastated WorldBelow - the realm of the Grass King - and the terrifying Cadre, who take her prisoner, and demand she either restore the king's concubine... or replace her.
And furthermore:
Love on the Run
By Katharine Kerr
Published by DAW $7.99 ISBN: 978-0756407629
Nola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse, the San Francisco of Terra Six.
Terrorists have turned parts of that city into a deathtrap—religious fanatics, yes, but from what religion? Nola suspects that the Peacock Angel Chaos cult lies behind the bombings and mass murders. As she gathers evidence, she finds herself face-to-face with part of her own personal past that she’d prefer to bury forever.
And by the way, just who is it that keeps trying to kill her?
Hee. My biggest problem is, which to read first...?