Tag: fantasy
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Winter Warriors by David Gemmell
Winter Warriors is yet another fantastic example of Gemmell’s fireside myth-mongering. It’s a legend, a myth, something written with such realisation that you believe every word. You ... -
Blackwing by Ed McDonald
THE GOOD: Tattoos that turn into crows, child-sorcerers that’ll cut you in two (vertically, diagonally, horizontally, they’re not fussy like that), veritable doomsday weaponry, ancient beings that ... -
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
“The settlers of Everfair had come here naively at best, arrogantly at worst. Due to the orders of the king they had found the country seemingly ... -
The Drowning Eyes by Emily Foster
“I’ve found the biggest difference between a common crook and a – a superhuman abomination is usually a few degrees of being good at your job.” ... -
The Emperor’s Railroad by Guy Haley
You only got an idea of what the Gone Before might have been like from up high. I could see the lines of the streets and ... -
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 ...
