…e from an oncoming flood–happier days, shot through with that music, the sound of hundreds, of thousands of voices raised in song–of such pure, incandescent happiness that she almost couldn’t bear it–where was justice, where was fairness, in a world where Elisabeth could reach such beauty, and yet her children were forever gone? She came to with a start. Night had well and truly fallen; the House lay silent; and the power within her had sunk low,…
…or you can download the MOBI file directly below if you can’t find it for free in your part of the world. Download Now: EPUB | MOBI. Download from retailers: Where to download Amazon US Amazon UK Smashwords Apple Barnes and Noble Download now. Or read online here. (and if you’ve read the novel and want more short fiction set in the same universe, why not check out Of Books, and Earth, and Courtship, the adventure/courtship story featuring Emmanue…
…ify them by mistake…). If you came here wanting whole stories (which I can understand!), I do have a Xuya short story online, “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight”, which won a British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Short Fiction, and is at Clarkesworld (and is getting reprinted in Dozois’s Year’s Best). You can also download EPUB or MOBI. And if anyone is interested and a Hugo or Nebula voter, contact me and I’d be quite happy to email…
…Unkrich (story) (Pixar/Disney) Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown) White Cat, Holly Black (McElderry) Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press; Scholastic UK) Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Barry Deutsch (Amulet) The Boy from Ilysies, Pearl North (Tor Teen) I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Gollancz; Harper) A Conspiracy of Kings, Megan Whalen Turner (Greenw…
Hum, so, that story about the phoenix? I’ve sold it to Subterranean Online for a future issue. Many thanks to Yanni Kuznia for the invitation, and to Gareth L Powell and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for the feedback (extra thanks to Rochita for putting up with my total absence of a brain). It’s set in the Xuya continuity, some time after On a Red Station, Drifting (and even has a returning minor character from that novel). Features mindships (of course),…
… as evidenced below: (yup, you can tell that we ran out of nice-looking bowls for the food…) From left to right and top to bottom: rice, bok choy in oyster sauce, tôm rang thịt ba chỉ (caramelised shrimp and pork belly), nước tương dến ớt (sweet soy sauce with ginger), sweet and sour sauce, bún canh gà (chicken broth with vermicelli), nước mắm gừng (ginger-lime dipping sauce), sour-sweet sauce, and Hainan chicken (one of those Chinese dishes tha…
…or of The Memoirs of Lady Trent series A few times in a lifetime, a book comes along that wraps you completely in its world and its characters. You walk its streets, smell its flowers, breathe its air alongside the characters as their stories become your story, their lives your life. THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS is one of those books; convincing, gripping and filled with wonders. Kari Sperring, Sidney J Bounds Award Winner, author of The Grass K…
Just a quick heads-up that I put chapter one of my upcoming Gollancz/Roc release The House of Shattered Wings online for your reading pleasure 🙂 It is almost pleasant, at first, to be Falling. The harsh, unwavering light of the City recedes, leaving you in shadow, leaving only memories of relief, of a blessed coolness seizing your limbs. Nothing has turned yet into longing, into bitterness, into the cold that will never cease, not even in the hea…
…ind “The Shipmaker” online, over at the TTA press website. Do feel free to come back here and comment on it after you’ve read it–any and all feedback appreciated. (while you’re at it, you can read another shortlisted story, Nina Allan’s “Flying in the Face of God”, which is definitely worth spending some time with) I swear there will be actual content on this blog soon, and not shameless self-promotion–but for that, my %%% fever is going to have t…
…the runup to that, they’re republishing fiction from their previous issues online. Among which is “The Dragon’s Tears”. Probably the best description of this is that I wrote as a homage to the Chinese fairytales I read when I was a child–I wasn’t very up to date on historical research then, but I think I nailed the feeling I got when I was six or seven, and immersed in a big fat book of wonderful stories with dragons, immortal carpenters, and crab…
