Tag Archives: short fiction

Glen Cook’s Winter’s Dreams

Glen Cook is known for his series — Dread Empire, Black Company, Garrett, P.I., Starfishers, and the like. What we tend to forget is that he has also written short fiction, which is fully up to the standard set in … Continue reading

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Glen Cook’s An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire

“Before the Instrumentalities of the Night, before the Black Company, there was the Dread Empire. . . .” So declares the jacket flap on this collection of Glen Cook’s short fiction, all set in the universe of Shinshan, Kavelin, Itaskia, … Continue reading

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Leona R. Wisoker’s Fallen City

Leona Wisoker’s Fallen City is described as “a supplement to Children of the Desert“. It’s the story of the origin of the Desert and the Desert Families, and to a certain extent, the story of the early years of Deiq, … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Bear’s Book of Iron

With Book of Iron, Elizabeth Bear pays another visit to the world of Bijou the Artificer, the Wizard of Messaline who makes creatures out of bone, jewels, and metal and who embarks on adventures, whom we first met in Bone … Continue reading

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Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas’ Haunted Legends

It’s something of a paradox: As a collection I found this volume kind of weak, but there are a lot of very fine stories in it. So many, in fact, that on going back over the anthology a second time, … Continue reading

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Mike Allen, ed.’s Clockwork Phoenix

Deborah J. Brannon wrote this review. The subtitle featured on the cover of Clockwork Phoenix is “tales of beauty and strangeness” and, with Mike Allen’s introduction, he immediately attemps to deliver on this promise. Readers are treated to an extended … Continue reading

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Peter S. Beagle’s The Line Between

I must confess that I lose track rather easily of when a book or collection that I am reading is being published, as much of what I read is in the form of drafts (such as Peter Beagle’s upcoming Summerlong … Continue reading

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