Author: Jonathan Thornton
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Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
“By its own reality, ecstasy makes people see that suffering is real. And without purpose. Ecstasy is a light that illuminates pain.” In Unquenchable Fire (1988), Rachel Pollack ... -
Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“And that was that. You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when ... -
The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
“There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our ... -
The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
“There is a principle called TSIM. Through deep time the universe complicates, all things whatsoever arising from the mother quantum, precisely so this man (writhing now ... -
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different ... -
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
“Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth, and master of all.” N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season is a strikingly original fantasy novel. It is set in ... -
The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick
“The changeling’s decision to steal a dragon and escape was born, though she did not know it then, the night the children met to plot the death ... -
Mythago Wood and Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
“A fire is burning in Bird Spirit Land. My bones smoulder. I must journey there.” Forests are naturally places of mystery and wonder. Full of life ... -
Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner
“What songs do you sing to them in Elfland? There, where all songs are true, and all stories history… I have seen lovers walking in those ... -
The Riddle-Master’s Game by Patricia A. McKillip
“Who is the Star-Bearer and what will he loose that is bound? What will one star call out of silence, one star out of darkness, and ...
