Tag Archives: YA fiction

Anne McCaffrey’s Black Horses for the King 

“No hoof, no horse,” say the Worshipful Company of Farriers. “Farriery,” the craft of shoeing horses, was even more vital in the days when every mobile enterprise was dependent on horses, especially the enterprise of war. And what more famous … Continue reading

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Charles de Lint’s The Blue Girl

I have read nearly everything that de Lint has done, fiction-wise. Really. Truly. Almost all of it fiction has been good enough to warrant repeated readings, and very little of it disappointed me. So do take note when I say The … Continue reading

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Judith Berman’s Bear Daughter

Wendy Donahue wrote this review. An extraordinary novel by Judith Berman, Bear Daughter is a sequel to the story “Lord Stink” (Asimov’s, August 1997, reprinted in Lord Stink and Other Stories, Small Beer Press, 2002). Cloud, a 12-year-old who has … Continue reading

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