Official Author Website
Order All the Horses of Iceland HERE
Order All the Horses of Iceland HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Sarah Tolmie is the author of the poetry collection The Art of Dying
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018), the 120-sonnet sequence Trio
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), and the chapbook Sonnet in a Blue
Dress and Other Poems (Baseline Press, 2014). She has published two novels
with Aqueduct Press, The Little Animals (2019) and The Stone Boatmen
(2014), as well as three short fiction collections, Disease (2020), Two
Travelers (2016) and NoFood (2014). She is a medievalist trained at
the University of Toronto and Cambridge and is a Professor of English at the University of
Waterloo. Read Sarah’s entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
OFFICIAL BOOK BLURB: A hypnotic historical
fantasy with gorgeous and unusual literary prose, from the captivating author
of The Fourth Island.
Everyone
knows of the horses of Iceland, wild, and small, and free, but few have heard
their story. Sarah Tolmie’s All the Horses of Iceland weaves their
mystical origin into a saga for the modern age. Filled with the magic and
darkened whispers of a people on the cusp of major cultural change, All the
Horses of Iceland tells the tale of a Norse trader, his travels through
Central Asia, and the ghostly magic that followed him home to the land of fire,
stone, and ice. His search for riches will take him from Helmgard, through
Khazaria, to the steppes of Mongolia, where he will barter for horses and
return with much, much more.
All
the Horses of Iceland
is a delve into the secret, imagined history of Iceland's unusual horses,
brought to life by an expert storyteller.
FORMAT/INFO: All the Horses of
Iceland is a novella of 104 pages, without chapter breaks. The story
of Eyvind and the Horse with No Name is set in the 9th
Century, and is told in the third-person by Jór, approximately three
hundred years after its occurrence. Short first-person interjections by the
narrator occur amid the main tale.
1st
March 2022
marked the release of the novella by Tordotcom Publishers in paperback and eBook.
12:00 AM | 
Posted by
The Reader |
Labels:
Official
Author Website
Order Siren Queen over HERE
Order Siren Queen over HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: Nghi Vo is the author of the novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful, as well as the acclaimed novellas When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain and The Empress of Salt and Fortune, a
Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the
Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She
believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to
change your mind.
(Author picture courtesy of James Rollins)
Order The Starless Crown over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s review of The Starless Crown
Read A Paean To Myrillia (The Godslayer Chronicles World And Series Analysis
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of Subterranean
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of The Judas Strain
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of The Doomsday Key
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of The Last Oracle
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of The Devil Colony
Read Fantasy
Book Critic’s review of The Blood Gospel
AUTHOR INFO: Craig Schaefer's books have taken readers to the seamy edge of a criminal underworld drenched in shadow (the Daniel Faust series), to a world torn by war, poison and witchcraft (the Revanche Cycle), and across a modern America mired in occult mysteries and a conspiracy of lies (the Harmony Black series).
Despite this, people say he's strangely normal. Suspiciously normal, in fact. His home on the Web is www.craigschaeferbooks.com.
Publisher: Demimonde Books (April 26, 2022) Length: 356 pages Formats: ebook, paperback
Order Kaikeyi
over HERE
OFFICIAL AUTHOR INFO: Vaishnavi Patel is
a law student focusing on constitutional law and civil rights. She likes to
write at the intersection of Indian myth, feminism, and anti-colonialism. Her
short stories can be found in The Dark and 87 Bedford's Historical
Fantasy Anthology along with a forthcoming story in Helios
Quarterly. Vaishnavi grew up in and around Chicago, and in her spare time,
enjoys activities that are almost stereotypically Midwestern: knitting, ice
skating, drinking hot chocolate, and making hotdish.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947–2006) was the renowned author of numerous ground-breaking novels, including Kindred, Wild Seed, and Parable of the Sower. Recipient of the Locus, Hugo and Nebula awards, and a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work, in 1995 she became the first science-fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship ‘Genius Grant’. A pioneer of her genre, Octavia’s dystopian novels explore myriad themes of Black injustice, women’s rights, global warming and political disparity, and her work is taught in over two hundred colleges and universities nationwide.
Genre: Sci-fi First Published: 1977 Page count: 169
FBC will have the pleasure to participate in the SPFBO for the eighth time. This time we'll have five judges involved in choosing our SPFBO champion. We're happy to welcome one new judge this year :) Here’s a bit of information on all of us:
AUTHOR INFO: Oliver Langmead is an author and poet based in Glasgow. His long-form poem, Dark Star, featured in the Guardian's Best Books of 2015. Oliver is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Glasgow, where he is researching terraforming and ecological philosophy, and in late 2018 he undertook a writing residency at the European Space Agency's Astronaut Centre in Cologne, writing about astronauts and people who work with astronauts.
Publisher: Titan Books (May 17, 2022) Page count: 288 pages Cover art:
Official
Author Website
Pre-order The Umbral Storm over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
Pre-order The Umbral Storm over HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic's review of The Crimson Queen
Read Fantasy Book Critic's interview with Alec Hutson
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
