I think it was inevitable as same-sex marriage became more widely accepted-those doom and gloom homophobes who screamed that 'polygamy will be next' weren't so far off the mark (as they bitterly pointed out in British and Irish newspaper columns in response to my calls for polyamory rights.) Much of the public has accepted love between consenting adults, and if there's nothing wrong with two men or two women being in love, well, why not more than that? It's prompted huge interest. Redfern Jon Barrett (RJB): There's absolutely a sweeping transformation going on right now with polyamory and the media. What’s your analysis? Also, do you see differences between past depictions of polyamory and what you’ve been seeing more recently? Su J Sokol (SJS): Polyamory in speculative fiction is nothing new, but some would say it’s been enjoying something of a renaissance. Sokol, author of the Sunburst Award-nominated Cycling to Asylum, speaks with panelists Redfern Jon Barrett, Jacqueline Koyanagi, B R Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver. Speculative Fiction Writers Discuss Polyamory and Diversity
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But it's also a world in which power is always wielded, brutally, from above. It's the second novel to be set in the Bas-Lag universe: a fantastical world in which humans, Remades (criminals punished by being surgically altered), walking cacti, women with scarab beetles for heads, "scabmettlers" who make armour from their own congealing blood and many other wild and wonderful hybrid creatures rub alongside each other. But for world-building immersiveness and sheer rollicking readability – Miéville aimed to write, as he put it, "the ripping yarn that is also sociologically serious and stylistically avant-garde" – it can't be beaten. That accolade should go to The City and the City or Embassytown, books which set out from the start to discomfit and unsettle: the first playing with spatial awareness and the very ground beneath the characters' feet the second coining new vocabulary to portray an alien world and worrying at theories of language and meaning. The Scar probably isn't China Miéville's best novel. Oh, and did I mention an evil Queen, a wizard, dragon eggs, and a bit of magic?Īiden's War is now published. Wendy Woo and the Dragon Eggs~The Gatekeeper Chronicles, is now published and is based on a young girl who, with the help of three new friends, finds herself in a mystery full of surprises and humor. The Hunted and Secrets is the continuing journey, with Destiny to follow. Fracture The Secret Enemy Saga, started so many years ago was the beginning of the road. Her vivid imagination and love for fantasy has culminated into a stories she hopes will captivate anyone who loves a good journey. Life urged her on, so when she found the first chapters of a manuscript she had started while still in New Orleans, she sat down at the computer and never looked back. The business gone and family scattered, she moved to Alabama, then to the mountains of Georgia. Hurricane Katrina, a curse to many, changed her life. She has been many things in life a wife, a mother, a salesperson, owned a successful landscaping business and raised horses, but her love of writing was her true calling. Virginia McKevitt was born in Long Beach, California, but lived most of her life in the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana, the city she will always call home no matter where she lives. Torn between love and loyalty, she must summon the courage to stand up against the only family she has for the only man she will ever love. But revealing his sacrifice and his hidden heritage will expose them both and destroy everything Layla holds dear even her role of mother to her precious young. Layla alone knows the truth that will save Xcor s life. Yet after a life marked by cruelty and evil deeds, he accepts his soldier s fate, his sole regret the loss of a sacred female who was never his: the Chosen Layla. Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards, convicted of treason against the Blind King, is facing a brutal interrogation and torturous death at the hands of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. A scorching forbidden love threatens to tear a rift through the Black Dagger Brotherhood in J. 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It is hoped that they will find a place of meaning in the lives of those who, though not a part of our service, share profoundly in the same quest and hunger for God. Included in this edition is a special group of twenty-five “working papers,” which we have used in the thirty-minute meditation period which precedes the service each Sunday morning. The response has been such that a third edition, greatly enlarged, is now being sent forth to reach an even wider audience. As a result of many requests, fifty of these meditations were first published in 1947, followed, a year later, by a second edition which included fifty additional meditations. My custom is to write a weekly meditation for the calendar of the Sunday services at our church. Tacitus is generally favourable towards the legal, moral and religious codes of the people he is describing, but is equally ready to decry what he sees as their vices and failings. The Germania, written about the same time as the Agricola, is a description of the lands, manners and customs of the German people and the individual Germanic tribes, as they were understood by the Roman Empire. The emphasis is on the life of a virtuous soldier and official navigating through the difficult ocean of power politics, rather than on pure history and the details of provincial rule, but the Agricola is nevertheless a valuable contribution to our understanding of the period. Essentially a eulogy of a strikingly honest and capable Roman official, the work allows Tacitus to indulge in a quiet critique of Imperial Rome’s control of the Empire under Domitian, with digressions regarding the geography and ethnography of Northern Britain. AD98, is a biography of his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, covering the noted general’s early life and his Governorship of Britain. With selected illustrations by various artists. New, Complete English Translations of Tacitus' Agricola and Germania Jan De Maesschalck has had solo exhibitions at Münsterland Festival (Billerbeck) and Mu.ZEE (Ostend). The tension lies in the artist’s fascination with light and shadow and his eye for detail. His work is subtle and highly suggestive. De Maesschalk often depicts women in isolated settings and specific architectural spaces, subjects that create an impression of intimacy or melancholy. In the creation of his paintings, he maintains the technical precision and speed of the drawing thanks to his use of fast-drying acrylic paint. The images of the figures he portrays are taken from the media, from which he then selects specific fragments to create his own images. He started his career as a draughtsman for different newspapers and (art) magazines. Jan De Maesschalck is a Belgian figurative painter who observes, selects, interprets and fantasizes. 1958 in Sint-Gillis-Waas (BE), lives and works in Stekene (BE). A failure in his eyes and hers, he has one chance at redemption.Īnd weapons are made for one purpose. Beside her on her gruelling journey is Brand, a young warrior who hates to kill. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. Fate traps her in the schemes – and on the ship – of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. Sometimes a girl is touched by Mother War. Thorn is such a girl. The story deals with two new characters, Thorn and Brand, while Yarvi remains as a central character. Half the World is the second book of the Shattered Sea series, a trilogy written by British author Joe Abercrombie. Just as some women are touched by Mother War. Jules watches her father sicken day by day as he gives up more of his time. While the poorest - like Jules Ember and her Papa - must literally bleed themselves dry to pay rent, cutting their lifespan down further and further. The richest, of course, have the most time and can, in theory, live indefinitely. Punishments often involve bleeding a person's time from them, which in this world is the morbid equivalent of paying a fine. not what you first think.Įverless introduces a world where time is currency and a person's time can be drained or added to through blood. Because the mysteries here are interesting, the premise one I haven't come across before, and many things are. It's not a perfect book by any means and Holland does fall into some traps commonly fallen into by debut authors - namely, the huge infodump in the first few chapters, and some confusing descriptions of the world-building and mythology that I didn't really understand for a long time. It's hard to find the hidden gems among the pile. Publishers churn out versions of the same old story again and again. The genre is often tropey and unoriginal. I know you shouldn't go into a book expecting the worst, but these days it's hard not to approach any new YA fantasy without some trepidation. |