I'm about halfway through and I'm having a blast!

 

Pity this is the only sci-fi book she appears to have written, so far at least.

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The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP

Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock

"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9

"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008

"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008

"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30

"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA

"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008

"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007

"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007

 

Yep, it was written in '75. She writes in a very sparse, economical style, and you are expected to fill in the gaps for yourself. There is a large cast, much political intrigue, and a pretty wild mutant race called the Styth.

 

Each chapter contains a lot of information and not a sentence is wasted. It is dense but not hard to read.

 

So why do I like it? Because it is very hard to predict where it is going? Because the female protagonist is smart as hell? Because the prose is finely crafted? All of these, but particularly because her vision of the future is unlike any I've read yet, a real eye opener.

 

Hey Bill, you can syndicate this luscious review on your site if you wanna.

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Tony Williams
Scales (2007), The Foresight War (2004)
Homepage: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk

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