Marc Zicree inserted a note on the flyleaf that informs the reader that he did not write this book.He didn't. He DID create the world in which it's set, but the story is mine. The rating is from Amazon.com, and the review below is from Booklist:In the wake of a devastating accident, the face of A...
The Meri, one of the two primary ruling forces in Caraid-land, changes the destiny of her people forever when she chooses to release Tamini, a former vessel of the Meri who was prosecuted as a witch.
Meredydd is an orphan, and the only female student at the prestigious school Halig-liath. At Halig-liath, young men — and Meredydd — are trained to become Osraed, which are magician-priests something along the lines of Druids. Female magic is feared and distrusted in this world, and when Meredydd...
One hundred years after she was called to the sea to become one with her god, Taminy is called to assume her next task--to become the very voice of her god on Earth.
was published in Analog in 1992. It poses one of the classic time travel paradoxes. I’m not going to say which one—you’ll have to find that out as you read. Suffice it to say that it is exactly this type of time travel experience that Rules Were Put In Place to Address. The story allowed me to co...
Mom says. “Is cold at night.” She’s said the same thing in the same moose-and-squirrel accent since I was twelve and going off to summer camp. “Mom,” I say, “it’s May.” “Sveater veather,” she says, pulls the aforementioned garment out of my dresser, and lays it atop my duffel. It’s the bulkiest s...
Carmel. It played havoc with the Tsong Zee’s colorful sashes and belts and the men’s long, unbound hair. Parsa, whose cropped, medallioned, rose-gold locks stayed neatly put, helped the three Tsong Zee men affect braids, then meekly allowed a technician to affix the EEG array to her head. The oth...
Follow this with a call to the angels (spirits) of earth, air, fire and water, giving precedence to air and earth, for these must be cloven if the spell is to succeed. One must hold these things in the strictest balance, and with concentration unbroken, exert the will toward establishment of a wi...