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Greer Gilman

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Greer Gilman has been writing stories set in Cloud, her Northern mythscape, for a quarter of a century. Her love of British lore and landscape, of its rituals and ballads, is a constant in her work; her love of language at its roots. Her books are written for the ear, as much as for the understanding. Like the earliest stories, they are meant to be sung.

Greer Ilene Gilman was educated at Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, where she studied on a Vida Dutton Scudder Fellowship. At Cambridge, she read Renaissance English and met with Jomsborg, a circle of fantasists. There she heard Alan Garner speak, had tea with Lucy Boston, and began to think of writing myth. A sometime forensic librarian and cataloger of the polyglot at Har ...more

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Wiry and white-fiery and whirlwind-swivellèd snow

My atavism for wild weather has faded somewhat: I didn't venture into the white-out, but waited for the grey, the gusts and swirling. It was still pretty fierce out there. My gloves weren't warm enough, my glasses frosted over, and for once, I was glad of the mask. I think I may be the last person on earth to wear a low-tech Luddite overcoat. At least, a young woman I encountered last month gazed Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.83 · 655 ratings · 147 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Greer Gilman (Foreword), Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1977 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 14th Annual by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Claudia Barbosa Nogueira 4.01 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonwise 4.08 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales 3.73 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terri Windling (Editor), Christopher Barzak (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Alphabet of Embers by Rose Lemberg (Editor), Celeste Rita Baker (Contributor), Vajra Chandrasekera (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.74 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cry Murder! in a Small Voice 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies (Handheld Fantasy Classics, 4) by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Greer Gilman (Introduction) 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exit, Pursued by a Bear 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Will there be bears?"
"There will be two: white bears, as soft and heavy as snow, as fell as January, one beyond the other, like the mountains on the edge of Thule. They have waked. There is old fire in their bellies; yellow moonlight in their seeking eyes; blood only in their minds.”
― Greer Gilman, Exit, Pursued by a Bear

tags: bears, theatre

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“In this, a heap of books, sea-ruined. Mooncalf'd bindings, white and swollen as a drowned face. Warp and white-rot, skin on skin. Down thou sit'st and try'st to pry the boards, to turn the bleared and cockled pages. Here, a drawing of a hand, anatomized. A riddle in geometry. A fugue of spiders.

And behind a faded arras-ghosts of roses, greensick blue- a bright dark closet full of wonders and dust.”
― Greer Gilman, Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales

tags: books, magic, wonder

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“Who'd storm a rainbow? Lay siege to elsewhere?”
― Greer Gilman

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Cloud and Ashes Three Winter's Tales by Greer Gilman

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