Originally published on my blog here in November 2006.The follow-up to the wonderful The Light Ages, The House of Storms revisits the same world a century or so later.The plot describes the machinations of Guildsmistress Alice Meynell, whose pursuit of personal power at any cost eventually leads ...
Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany’s victory in the Great War, through the eyes of a man whose life lies close to the...
Although Father John has lost his faith, he gamely administers medicine and prayers to the people of a Borderer town in what was once northern Africa. He wonders why so many of them are dying of bludrut-myeloid leukemia-and suspects that the koiyl leaf, chewed as an opiate, may be the reason. Inv...
Czy jest możliwa miłość od pierwszego wejrzenia? – zastanawiają się romantycy. Ja już wiem, że owszem, jak najbardziej – miłość od rzucenia okiem na okładkę, przejechania dłonią po śliskim grzbiecie i przeczytania tych kilku znajdujących się z tyłu zdań, które mają za zadanie zachęcać do zakupu i...
He felt the swaying bulk of the snubnose Colt as he rooted in his pockets for enough change to get a fresh pack of Lucky Strikes from a row of vending machines, then a tepid cup of cardboard-flavored coffee, which he knocked back in one. He checked his watch, but the hands had stopped; it had bee...