…e, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity. When a mysterious corpse is found in the quarters of Vân’s student, Vân and Sunless Woodsfind themselves following a trail of greed and murder that will lead them from teahouses and ascetic havens to the wreck of a mindship–and to the devastating secrets they’ve kept from each other. Now in a UK and commonwealth ebook edition! “With this lush, immersive sci-fi tale, de Bodard (The House of Sundering Fla…
…of The House of Shattered Wings, The House of Binding Thorns and the forthcoming The House of Sundering Flames). The original novella, “Of Birthdays, and Fungus, and Kindness” is a comedy of manners set in the Dominion of the Fallen universe, where Fallen angel Emmanuelle attempts to throw a relaxing birthday party for her lover, and everything goes wrong in all the worst possible ways. Complete with supernatural fungus in a ballroom, meddling im…
…wine wafting from those few bars still open; and above me, the distant light of the stars, a constant reminder of the inaccessibility of Heaven. I climbed the stairs to my flat, exhausted, my arms covered in claw-marks. At the shelter I worked at, drunken Fallen had started attacking some of the newcomers–and had turned on me when I’d tried to intervene. I fumbled in my bag for the key, wincing as the leather scraped against my skin. I didn’t blam…
…A Xuya story about a planet with a rather peculiar and creepy museum/archival system! Where to Buy Barnes and Noble Amazon US Amazon UK Buy now…
…e attending Eastercon in Birmingham: my schedule is here I’ve also been around the blogosphere: My Favorite Bit at Mary Robinette Kowal’s Blog: destroying Paris and terrible bilingual puns In Defence of Uncanny Punctuation at Chuck Wendig’s blog: in which I defend the King of Fruit and the King of Punctuation My Favourite Dragons and how I designed mine at The Book Smugglers Unfamiliar rooms: magic and dread in Kari Sperring’s The Grass King’s Con…
https://twitter.com/kyliu99/status/857760139146911744 So this is just a very small addendum to this great Ken Liu quote (which should just be framed in workshop rooms to be honest!). On showing vs telling: first off, that Kate Elliott article is definitely worth reading. Second, a few additional thoughts. Like Ken says, showing works, among other things, because of shared frame of reference. We all assign, for instance, the same value to looking…
…that’s turned opaque and brittle with age. “I’ll have to pack them inside a bag.” Giang kneels by her side. The air reeks of the smoke of burnt flowers, and in the distance is the thunder of bombs falling over the city of Thu Huong. “Want some help?” she asks. Where to Buy Paperback Ebook Bundle Ebook & Paperback Buy Now…
…Want to play a fun game? Leticia Lara has kindly made a Dominion of the Fallen word search puzzle–you can go look for the heads of the major Houses in the books, here. I’m offering three UK mass market paperback edition of The House of Shattered Wings if you can find them all! (if you want to actually solve the puzzle, the one at Leticia’s blog is a widget where you can highlight text)…
…or Karen Rose is matching all donations up to $4000, so now’s the time for donating if you want to! To support the fundraiser, I’ll be taking part in Read for Pixels’ Google Hangout on Sunday March 19th, 4pm Paris Time. I’ll be reading from my forthcoming The House of Binding Thorns: ruined and decadent Paris, magical intrigues, dragons in human shape, and kissing and stabbing (not necessarily in that order :p), and taking questions about my writi…
…isappeared and was never seen again. But now the Dai Viet Empire itself is under siege, on the verge of a war against an enemy that turns their own mindships against them; and the Empress, who once gave the order to raze the Citadel, is in desperate needs of its weapons. Meanwhile, on a small isolated space station, an engineer obsessed with the past works on a machine that will send her thirty years back, to the height of the Citadel’s power. But…
