This collection of science fiction and fantasy stories was built around the single premise that the main character must be a woman warrior. There’s an interesting mix of stories here, some about war, some about the battles of real life. A couple of the sci fi stories featured some flavor of war being fought remotely, […]
Women of War – ed. Tanya Huff and Alexander Potter Read More »
Read for the Once Upon a Time IV Reading Challenge. The Grey Isles lie in some unnamed sea, a land of sorcerers and warriors, whose people are well aware that the Lords of Chaos have entered their land, dooming it to fall beneath the waves. The stories in this book are of a number of
Songs from the Drowned Lands – Eileen Kernaghan Read More »
Read for the 2010 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I’ve been trying to get my hands on The Dying Earth for years now (I have all the other books written in this particular world, but for some reason, the first was the hardest to locate). It’s one of those seminal earlier works of science fiction (or
The Dying Earth – Jack Vance Read More »
Blood Bank is technically the last book of the Blood Ties series by Tanya Huff, and the introduction begins with this rather depressing statement: “Because the Blood books were as much about the relationship between the three protagonists as they were about the metaphysical or the mystery, and because in Blood Debt I had wrapped
Blood Bank – Tanya Huff Read More »
The Ivory and the Horn is a collection of stories set in Newford, de Lint’s fictional Every City where many of his urban fantasy novels are based. The beauty of Newford is that there are so many shorter stories set there, and it’s easy to ease yourself into this world, and meet the many recurring
The Ivory and the Horn – Charles de Lint Read More »
Read for the 2010 YA Reading Challenge. I’ve had this book on my radar since 2004, when I saw Robin McKinley speak at my local Borders after her novel Sunshine was published. At the time, she’d mentioned that her husband had finished his contributions to their book about fire, but her story ideas kept having
Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits – Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson Read More »
Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. There’s a surprising amount of variety in this slim book of short stories – all of which are retellings of fairy tales, with a modern, adult twist. The title story is a retelling of the story of Bluebeard, this time set on the coast of Brittany, as a
The Bloody Chamber – Angela Carter Read More »
Read for the Dream King Reading Challenge. This is a book of short stories that the author notes in the introduction were collected because they would appeal to young people. Only two are previously uncollected, so you’re not going to find much new here, though it’s a nice jaunt back down memory lane. If you
M is for Magic – Neil Gaiman Read More »
Read for the It’s the End of the World Reading Challenge. The title says everything you need to know about the subject matter of this short story collection. Every story is set after the world has ended. If that seems like a fairly limiting subject, you’re in for an interesting survey of how many different
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse – John Joseph Adams, ed. Read More »
I really wish I’d know about Marion Zimmer Bradley’s various short story anthologies back when they were being published. I was in my teens at the time, but she usually had at least one teen in each anthology, and my head is often full of might have beens when I read these books now. At
Sword and Sorceress XII – Marion Zimmer Bradley Read More »