"...should be required reading for anyone who still subscribes to the popular, dangerous fantasy of the nobility of war." (Lisa Tuttle, Time Out) "It has been several years since a first novel has grabbed me the way Keith Brooke's 'Keepers of the Peace' did. It's a well-crafted, very personal lo...
I'm not going to lie, I found this book kind of troubling.What I think it accomplishes well is the sense of setting. Not the setting itself, because I feel like what we had from this work wasn't so much an exploration of a place or how a culture as presented in the novel could come to be, but mor...
He wished it would stop.Siggy Axelmeyer was before him on the balcony of Cane-brake House. He was playing his mouth-organ, his back to Sukui, a microphone cable trailing down over the crook of his right arm.The two of them were alone, except for the voice ringing in Sukui's head, the Good Lord Sa...
It really did seem to be one thing after another that evening. I’D SPENT THE afternoon at a safehouse down where a spur of the Ipp sticks out into the River Swayne, forming a natural harbour, a place of transit where strange faces were never a surprise. This provided perfect cover for people-s...
Deep rumbles of thunder, tuned to almost subliminal pitch, reached deep inside her. Static buzzed in the dry air, blue-white sparks jumping between the trees, echoing the lightning high above. Another dry storm, she decided, of the kind that usually drew in towards dusk. This one was earlier than...
The Knife-thrower Leeth didn’t feel as bad as he might have expected. In the space of little more than a day his identity and lineage had been ripped away and he had, in turn, been ridiculed and rejected by his real father, Donn. Yet strangely, deep in the core of his being, he felt as if somethi...