(Companion novel)
Synopsis:
"Çeda is the youngest pit fighter in the history of Sharakhai. She’s made
her name in the arena as the fearsome White Wolf. None but her closest
friends and allies know her true identity. But this all changes when she
crosses the path of Rümayesh, an ehrekh, a sadistic creature forged
aeons ago by the god of chaos.
The ehrekh are desert dwellers,
but for centuries Rümayesh has lurked in the dark corners of Sharakhai,
combing the populace for human “jewels” that might interest her. Some
she chooses to stand by her side, until she tires of them and discards
them. Others she abducts to examine more closely, leaving them ruined,
worn-out husks.
Çeda flees the ehrekh’s attentions, but that
only makes Rümayesh covet her more. Rümayesh grows violent, threatening
to unmask Çeda as the White Wolf—but the danger grows infinitely worse
when she turns her attention to Çeda’s friends.
As Çeda fights to
protect the people dearest to her, Rümayesh comes closer to attaining
her prize, and the struggle becomes a battle for Çeda’s very soul."
(Companion novel)
Synopsis:
"The fugitive slave Ghu has ended the assassin Ahjvar's century-long
possession by a murderous and hungry ghost, but at great cost. Heir of
the dying gods of Nabban, he is drawn back to the empire he fled as a
boy, journeying east on the caravan road with Ahjvar at his side.
Haunted
by memory of those he has slain, Ahjvar is ill in mind and body, a
danger to those about him and to the man who loves him most of all.
Tortured by violent nightmares, he believes himself mad. Only his
determination not to leave Ghu to face his fate alone keeps Ahjvar from
asking to be freed at last from his unnatural life.
Innocent and
madman, god and assassin--two men to seize an empire from the tyrannical
descendants of the devil Yeh-Lin. But in war-torn Nabban, enemies of
gods and humans stir in the shadows. Yeh-Lin herself meddles with the
heir of her enemies and his soul-shattered companion, as the fate of the
empire rests on their shoulders."
(Collection)
Synopsis:
"The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition
gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined
historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le
Guin turned to science fiction, the novel
Malafrena is a tale of
love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the
early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The
stories originally published in
Orsinian Tales (1976) offer
brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history
that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth
century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The
volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history
of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,”
Le Guin’s first published work, and two never before published songs in
the Orisinian language."
(Reprint Anthology)
Synopsis:
"ANTHOLOGY OF GREAT SF STORIES BY RENOWNED WOMEN SF AUTHORS! A collection
of wonderful SF carefully selected by ground-breaking editor and
author, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Stories by Andre Norton, Anne McCaffrey,
Lois McMaster Bujold, CJ Cherryh and more.
Meet the
Women of Futures Past: from
Grand Master Andre Norton and the beloved Anne McCaffrey to some of the
most popular SF writers today, such as Lois McMaster Bujold and CJ
Cherryh. The most influential writers of multiple generations are found
in these pages, delivering lost classics and foundational touchstones
that shaped the field.
You'll find Northwest Smith, C.L. Moore’s
famous smuggler who predates (and maybe inspired) Han Solo by four
decades. Read Leigh Brackett’s fiction and see why George Lucas chose
her to write
The Empire Strikes Back. Adventure tales,
post-apocalyptic visions, space opera, aliens-among-us, time
travel—these women have delivered all this and more, some of the best
science fiction ever written!
Includes stories by Leigh Brackett,
Lois McMaster Bujold, Pat Cadigan, CJ Cherryh, Zenna Henderson, Nancy
Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Anne McCaffrey, C.L. Moore, Andre Norton,
James Tiptree, Jr., and Connie Willis."
(Debut novel)
Synopsis:
"
Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel
that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's
disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had
learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from
Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase
land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land,
named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for
native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from
America and other places where African natives were being mistreated.
Nisi
Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human
rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of
the possibilities inherent in a turn of history.
Everfair is told
from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and
African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a
compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced.
Everfair is
not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that
will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of
history."
