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Cartomancy
Mary Gentle is one of Britain's most outstanding writers of imaginative fiction, able to move seamlessly from science fiction to fantasy within the same story. Following on from the success of ASH, 1610: A SUNDIAL IN A GRAVE and the omnibus volumes WHITE CROW and ORTHE, comes CARTOMANCY, the definitive collection of Mary Gentle's short fiction. CARTOMANCY includes the stories from SOLDIERS AND SCHOLARS as well as a number of tales previously unpublished in book form, all with new afterwords and topped and tailed with a specially revised version of her split story 'Cartomancy'.
313 pages, Paperback
First published March 11, 2004
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Mary Gentle
44 books204 followersThis author also writes under the pseudonym of Roxanne Morgan
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
Mary Gentle's first published novel was Hawk in Silver (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the Orthe duology, which consists of Golden Witchbreed (1983) and Ancient Light (1987).
The novels Rats and Gargoyles (1990), The Architecture of Desire (1991), and Left to His Own Devices (1994), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series (collected in White Crow in 2003). As with Michael Moorcock's series about his anti-heroic Jerry Cornelius, Gentle's sequence retains some basic facts about her two protagonists Valentine (also known as the White Crow) and Casaubon while changing much else about them, including what world they inhabit. Several take place in an alternate-history version of 17th century and later England, where a form of Renaissance Hermetic magic has taken over the role of science. Another, Left To His Own Devices, takes place in a cyberpunk-tinged version of our own near future. The sequence is informed by historically existing ideas about esotericism and alchemy and is rife with obscure allusions to real history and literature.
Grunts! (1992) is a grand guignol parody of mass-market high fantasy novels, with orcs as heroes, murderous halflings, and racist elves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia:
Mary Gentle's first published novel was Hawk in Silver (1977), a young-adult fantasy. She came to prominence with the Orthe duology, which consists of Golden Witchbreed (1983) and Ancient Light (1987).
The novels Rats and Gargoyles (1990), The Architecture of Desire (1991), and Left to His Own Devices (1994), together with several short stories, form a loosely linked series (collected in White Crow in 2003). As with Michael Moorcock's series about his anti-heroic Jerry Cornelius, Gentle's sequence retains some basic facts about her two protagonists Valentine (also known as the White Crow) and Casaubon while changing much else about them, including what world they inhabit. Several take place in an alternate-history version of 17th century and later England, where a form of Renaissance Hermetic magic has taken over the role of science. Another, Left To His Own Devices, takes place in a cyberpunk-tinged version of our own near future. The sequence is informed by historically existing ideas about esotericism and alchemy and is rife with obscure allusions to real history and literature.
Grunts! (1992) is a grand guignol parody of mass-market high fantasy novels, with orcs as heroes, murderous halflings, and racist elves.
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September 26, 2013
This is an excellent collection of Gentle's earlier short stories. Those familiar with her work will not be surprised - alternate history and strong, realistic swordswomen feature prominently. Each story is accompanied by a short essay by Gentle discussing the story, its characters (and often how they morphed into characters featured in her novels) and its place in her writing... I particularly liked the final story, "The Tarot Dice" - very original concept, difficult and complex relationships, and a gritty-yet-mystical atmosphere... I particularly like Mary Gentle, so I was not surprised to like the collection.
Includes (among others):
Beggars in Satin.
This novella introduces the young warrior White Crow, and the
corpulent lord Casaubon who becomes her lover, the characters featured in Gentle's novels"Rats & Gargoyles" & "The Architecture of Desire." It really helps to understand their characters and relationship. The young warrior/scholar comes to Casaubon in response to a plea for help - he has aimed to create a wondrous garden - but something is going horribly wrong.
The Harvest of Wolves
A future encounter between an aging former radical and the young man who is assigned to both care for and spy on her. Ruthless in its
vision of the self-centered nature of humanity.
The Crystal Sunlight, The Bright Air
This story takes place on Orthe, the world of the novels "Ancient
Light" and "Golden Witchbreed."
In it, an agent of the Holy Dominion is sent to Orthe to determine if
the world should be put under Interdict. Grieving for a dead lover, he is unsure of what might be the right thing to do.
The Tarot Dice
A beautiful, dreamlike, and tragic tale of doomed love. A woman,
Sanzia, is obsessed with a man who insists he loves her only as a
sister. Full of details but never fully explained, it's a sci-fi
setting full of heresy, divination, life on the fringes.
Anukazi's Daughter
A woman who has fought to be a warrior in her harsh, Mongol-type tribe makes a split-second decision to let a prisoner free - and to escape with him to his people. She based her decision mainly on the idea that women had more opportunities in this foreign land - but although she is hailed as a hero, she is not at home, and cultural differences slowly lead to tragedy.
A Sun in the Attic
When an inventor disappears from his household, his spouses are
frantic with worry. Searching warehouses and quays, and asking at
ships, they call in favors for information throough complex and rival
families... and uncover a plot to keep technology below a certain
level, possibly for good reasons...
A Shadow Under the Sea
Another quite negative rumination on the nature of humanity. When her island is threatened by a giant kraken, interfering with shipping and disastrous to sailors, she calls on the aid of her estranged sister, a powerful sorceress. The two women go out alone in a small boat to enspell the creature. But at the crucial moment, the councilwoman is paralyzed by fear, causing things to go wrong - and then she faces a terrible decision, alone on the open waves.
The Pits Beneath the World
Another tale on the theme of differences between cultures. A group of humans, ambassadors on an alien world, have been interacting well with the native, giant centipede-like creatures who love to hunt the grasslands. But after a young human girl has a discussion with her alien friends, suddenly, she is the one being hunted, for reasons she cannot understand.
The Knot Garden
Another tale of The White Crow and Casaubon - in this one, things are bizarrely going wrong in Casaubon's city, again, and Valentine
mysteriously disappears. Some suspect she may simply have left him - but then, others start disappearing, and he must seek her, even into other dimensions...
Includes (among others):
Beggars in Satin.
This novella introduces the young warrior White Crow, and the
corpulent lord Casaubon who becomes her lover, the characters featured in Gentle's novels"Rats & Gargoyles" & "The Architecture of Desire." It really helps to understand their characters and relationship. The young warrior/scholar comes to Casaubon in response to a plea for help - he has aimed to create a wondrous garden - but something is going horribly wrong.
The Harvest of Wolves
A future encounter between an aging former radical and the young man who is assigned to both care for and spy on her. Ruthless in its
vision of the self-centered nature of humanity.
The Crystal Sunlight, The Bright Air
This story takes place on Orthe, the world of the novels "Ancient
Light" and "Golden Witchbreed."
In it, an agent of the Holy Dominion is sent to Orthe to determine if
the world should be put under Interdict. Grieving for a dead lover, he is unsure of what might be the right thing to do.
The Tarot Dice
A beautiful, dreamlike, and tragic tale of doomed love. A woman,
Sanzia, is obsessed with a man who insists he loves her only as a
sister. Full of details but never fully explained, it's a sci-fi
setting full of heresy, divination, life on the fringes.
Anukazi's Daughter
A woman who has fought to be a warrior in her harsh, Mongol-type tribe makes a split-second decision to let a prisoner free - and to escape with him to his people. She based her decision mainly on the idea that women had more opportunities in this foreign land - but although she is hailed as a hero, she is not at home, and cultural differences slowly lead to tragedy.
A Sun in the Attic
When an inventor disappears from his household, his spouses are
frantic with worry. Searching warehouses and quays, and asking at
ships, they call in favors for information throough complex and rival
families... and uncover a plot to keep technology below a certain
level, possibly for good reasons...
A Shadow Under the Sea
Another quite negative rumination on the nature of humanity. When her island is threatened by a giant kraken, interfering with shipping and disastrous to sailors, she calls on the aid of her estranged sister, a powerful sorceress. The two women go out alone in a small boat to enspell the creature. But at the crucial moment, the councilwoman is paralyzed by fear, causing things to go wrong - and then she faces a terrible decision, alone on the open waves.
The Pits Beneath the World
Another tale on the theme of differences between cultures. A group of humans, ambassadors on an alien world, have been interacting well with the native, giant centipede-like creatures who love to hunt the grasslands. But after a young human girl has a discussion with her alien friends, suddenly, she is the one being hunted, for reasons she cannot understand.
The Knot Garden
Another tale of The White Crow and Casaubon - in this one, things are bizarrely going wrong in Casaubon's city, again, and Valentine
mysteriously disappears. Some suspect she may simply have left him - but then, others start disappearing, and he must seek her, even into other dimensions...
January 9, 2012
From this collection, the main themes in Gentle's work seem to be medieval warfare and camplife, and most stories have female and/or homosexual protagonists, the fact of which is always emphasised. Also, there is betrayal, and loyalty.
Another habit of hers is to drop the reader right in the middle of a situation without giving any kind of background information, and using highly specific vocabulary on medieval stuff, for example, without explaining any of it. Now I don't really like infodumps, and I quite enjoy finding out about the setting and the situation, but in a lot of these stories I get the feeling that I'm missing half the info. And I'm far too lazy to look up all the vocabulary, if it's even in a normal dictionary...
The collection is framed by a story about a snotty elven lord commissioning a series of magic maps from a half-naked halfling witch and her orc companion. The maps can be accessed by dripping blood on them. Each of the maps of course corresponds to a story in the collection.
I read her novel Ash-A Secret History last year, which clocks in at a whopping 1200 pages (in the supersized paperback edition), and tells you everything you ever wanted to know about life in a 15th century mercenary company...until the stone golems show up, and the sun goes out. It gets weirder from there. A really good, if slightly confusing novel.
Some notable stories in Cartomancy:
The Logistics of Carthage is a sort of prequel to Ash, telling about a woman looking for her place in the world, and more immediately, in a mercenary company about 20 years before Ash. Yolande receives visions from a Visigoth slave boy, showing her scenes from our times, where an archaelogist and a soldier try to reconstitute what happened at the fall of Carthage.
This story clears up some of Ash's background, and provides an interesting account of a woman's life in the middle ages, her image always stuck between whore and valued member of the company.
The Road to Jerusalem is about a young, female Knight Templar, who is confronted with a mission that went badly pear-shaped a couple of years earlier. Now she is called to testify about this to a commission, which is against her Templar oath, and she has to face the choice between betraying her oaths, or keeping an enormous military cock-up secret.
Quite an interesting story about defining your priorities, and the importance of your oaths. Plus swordfights.
Orc's Drift is a hilarious story about a company of Orcs stationed at the butt-end of nowhere to guard a border. And then there was a fairy.
Awesome, because fairies rule, obviously. :)
The Tarot Dice has an interesting premise, about a Church breaking down, and tarot dice showing impossible results, and the incestuous relationship between a brother and a sister, but I couldn't really make much sense of it, because too much of it wasn't there...might have been better if it was twice as long. This way, it feels like a remembered dream, a bunch of images and impressions, but no coherent story.
What God Abandoned is about a bunch of shape-changing aliens hiding as mercenaries in the wars of the eighteenth century, and who are trying to banish magic from the world, because apparently it leads to evil...or something like that. The protagonist is initially male, but then transforms into a woman in order to get into the pants of a fellow soldier. He then has to change back in order to be able to handle the equipment better, but is caught out naked by aforementioned soldier, which led to even more problems, as burning witches was a popular passtime...
Another really interesting premise, but the story should have been much longer and have much more details.
Human Waste is a really disturbing story about a woman who grows herself a baby enhanced with nanoprobes, so that he can heal from anything she inflicts on him...and she treats him as a punching bag (literally, repeatedly, graphically), drowns him, starves him, and generally enjoys his misery.
Really really creepy...but unfortunately there are people like that, and normal babies can't heal all the damage...
In general, 7/10 for interesting ideas, but confusing setups.
Another habit of hers is to drop the reader right in the middle of a situation without giving any kind of background information, and using highly specific vocabulary on medieval stuff, for example, without explaining any of it. Now I don't really like infodumps, and I quite enjoy finding out about the setting and the situation, but in a lot of these stories I get the feeling that I'm missing half the info. And I'm far too lazy to look up all the vocabulary, if it's even in a normal dictionary...
The collection is framed by a story about a snotty elven lord commissioning a series of magic maps from a half-naked halfling witch and her orc companion. The maps can be accessed by dripping blood on them. Each of the maps of course corresponds to a story in the collection.
I read her novel Ash-A Secret History last year, which clocks in at a whopping 1200 pages (in the supersized paperback edition), and tells you everything you ever wanted to know about life in a 15th century mercenary company...until the stone golems show up, and the sun goes out. It gets weirder from there. A really good, if slightly confusing novel.
Some notable stories in Cartomancy:
The Logistics of Carthage is a sort of prequel to Ash, telling about a woman looking for her place in the world, and more immediately, in a mercenary company about 20 years before Ash. Yolande receives visions from a Visigoth slave boy, showing her scenes from our times, where an archaelogist and a soldier try to reconstitute what happened at the fall of Carthage.
This story clears up some of Ash's background, and provides an interesting account of a woman's life in the middle ages, her image always stuck between whore and valued member of the company.
The Road to Jerusalem is about a young, female Knight Templar, who is confronted with a mission that went badly pear-shaped a couple of years earlier. Now she is called to testify about this to a commission, which is against her Templar oath, and she has to face the choice between betraying her oaths, or keeping an enormous military cock-up secret.
Quite an interesting story about defining your priorities, and the importance of your oaths. Plus swordfights.
Orc's Drift is a hilarious story about a company of Orcs stationed at the butt-end of nowhere to guard a border. And then there was a fairy.
Awesome, because fairies rule, obviously. :)
The Tarot Dice has an interesting premise, about a Church breaking down, and tarot dice showing impossible results, and the incestuous relationship between a brother and a sister, but I couldn't really make much sense of it, because too much of it wasn't there...might have been better if it was twice as long. This way, it feels like a remembered dream, a bunch of images and impressions, but no coherent story.
What God Abandoned is about a bunch of shape-changing aliens hiding as mercenaries in the wars of the eighteenth century, and who are trying to banish magic from the world, because apparently it leads to evil...or something like that. The protagonist is initially male, but then transforms into a woman in order to get into the pants of a fellow soldier. He then has to change back in order to be able to handle the equipment better, but is caught out naked by aforementioned soldier, which led to even more problems, as burning witches was a popular passtime...
Another really interesting premise, but the story should have been much longer and have much more details.
Human Waste is a really disturbing story about a woman who grows herself a baby enhanced with nanoprobes, so that he can heal from anything she inflicts on him...and she treats him as a punching bag (literally, repeatedly, graphically), drowns him, starves him, and generally enjoys his misery.
Really really creepy...but unfortunately there are people like that, and normal babies can't heal all the damage...
In general, 7/10 for interesting ideas, but confusing setups.
June 13, 2024
This is a collection of Gentle’s stories (some of which have been collected before in Scholars and Soldiers.) Each is followed by an afterword describing the story’s genesis, and sometimes evolution.
We start with Cartomancy: An Introduction which is a framing device setting the subsequent stories as animations of maps brought to life by the blood of the elvish Pontiff Elthyriel.
The Logistics of Carthage is set in the same universe which Gentle set out in Ash: A Secret History (and later in Ilario: The Lion’s Eye) in which Burgundy is soon to disappear. It explores the relationship between Guillaume, a mercenary soldier in the Griffin and Gold company, and Yolande, a woman who joined up to protect her fifteen year-old son and of course failed in that. The Griffin and Gold are in North Africa fighting for the Turkish Bey. The plot revolves around both the death of another female mercenary whose body (against all mercenary custom) remains unburied because the local priesthood sees her as an abomination - and pigs.
Kitsune is narrated by Rowena, a “cute dyke” taking classes in the Japanese martial art of iaido. When she meets Tamiko, she falls in love with her at first sight. But Tamiko is - or claims to be - a fox spirit, capable of making anyone fall in love with her, a belief Rowena cannot get to grips with.
The Road to Jerusalem, the first story Gentle set in that universe mentioned above but this time Burgundy did not disappear in the 1500s, deals with a dilemma faced by a female soldier of the Knights Templar in the 1990s where she has to decide between obeying the Pope (here based in Avignon) or observing the rules of secrecy of her order. Incidental details include North America being known as Cabotsland and the Tokugawa Shogunate having a presence on its west coast.
The splendidly titled Orc’s Drift (written with Dean Wayland) is a throwaway tale set in the same universe as Gentle’s novel Grunts. A group of orcs at a remote outpost where the inhabitants have been cleared off the land is challenged by a small creature one of them identifies as a Sand Fairy.
The Tarot Dice is revealed in Gentle’s afterword to be her feeling her way towards ideas she fleshed out more fully in later stories and novels. A woman and a man in a society on the cusp of a revolution have a complicated relationship due to the fact that he in effect brought her up. The dice she employs are loaded, as is the metaphor they embody.
The Harvest of Wolves is a future dystopia where yet again a UK government has butchered the welfare system making receipt of relief dependent on doing something for it. This being a fascistic regime that involves spying on others.
Anukazi’s Daughter is the tale of a female soldier who realises she will never achieve the role of commander despite being better equipped for it than her male comrades. An encounter with enemies who accept same-sex relationships and gender equality changes her life. (This was apparently the first story in which Gentle played with the female soldier idea.)
What God Abandoned features as a minor character a young René Descartes as a member of an army at the beginning of the Thirty Years War. Another soldier is a Weerde, a person who can change sex but whose secret is discovered.
Unusually for Gentle The Pits Beneath the World is pure Science Fiction, set on a planet with seventeen moons orbiting a blue giant star twinned with a white dwarf. Pel is a young teenager accompanying a human expedition who puts herself in danger by revealing to the local inhabitants she isn’t an adult.
In Cast a Long Shadow a woman estranged from the father of her child encounters the creatures of darkness with whom he has made a pact to obtain from him his exercise book containing drawings of them.
A Sun in the Attic is again pure Science Fiction, set in a world whose moon was once inhabited but whose atmosphere is now only patrolled by machines. One of narrator Roslin’s two husbands has invented a telescope but the City Council isn’t keen on change.
A Shadow Under the Sea is set in the same milieu as Anukazi’s Daughter and concerns a sea creature attacking the boats which do the necessary fishing for inhabitants of the Hundred Isles. Spurlock has to go to the far south, past the Cold Lands, to enlist the help of a female shaman to trap the beast.
Human Waste examines an unusual response to the repair of the human body by nanotech.
Cartomancy: Conclusion rounds off the framing device.
In one of the afterwords Gentle mentions her discomfort with the short story form. She is good at long - often very long - fiction but her short work, as here, is certainly better than serviceable.
Sensitivity note: contains the words “niggers.”
We start with Cartomancy: An Introduction which is a framing device setting the subsequent stories as animations of maps brought to life by the blood of the elvish Pontiff Elthyriel.
The Logistics of Carthage is set in the same universe which Gentle set out in Ash: A Secret History (and later in Ilario: The Lion’s Eye) in which Burgundy is soon to disappear. It explores the relationship between Guillaume, a mercenary soldier in the Griffin and Gold company, and Yolande, a woman who joined up to protect her fifteen year-old son and of course failed in that. The Griffin and Gold are in North Africa fighting for the Turkish Bey. The plot revolves around both the death of another female mercenary whose body (against all mercenary custom) remains unburied because the local priesthood sees her as an abomination - and pigs.
Kitsune is narrated by Rowena, a “cute dyke” taking classes in the Japanese martial art of iaido. When she meets Tamiko, she falls in love with her at first sight. But Tamiko is - or claims to be - a fox spirit, capable of making anyone fall in love with her, a belief Rowena cannot get to grips with.
The Road to Jerusalem, the first story Gentle set in that universe mentioned above but this time Burgundy did not disappear in the 1500s, deals with a dilemma faced by a female soldier of the Knights Templar in the 1990s where she has to decide between obeying the Pope (here based in Avignon) or observing the rules of secrecy of her order. Incidental details include North America being known as Cabotsland and the Tokugawa Shogunate having a presence on its west coast.
The splendidly titled Orc’s Drift (written with Dean Wayland) is a throwaway tale set in the same universe as Gentle’s novel Grunts. A group of orcs at a remote outpost where the inhabitants have been cleared off the land is challenged by a small creature one of them identifies as a Sand Fairy.
The Tarot Dice is revealed in Gentle’s afterword to be her feeling her way towards ideas she fleshed out more fully in later stories and novels. A woman and a man in a society on the cusp of a revolution have a complicated relationship due to the fact that he in effect brought her up. The dice she employs are loaded, as is the metaphor they embody.
The Harvest of Wolves is a future dystopia where yet again a UK government has butchered the welfare system making receipt of relief dependent on doing something for it. This being a fascistic regime that involves spying on others.
Anukazi’s Daughter is the tale of a female soldier who realises she will never achieve the role of commander despite being better equipped for it than her male comrades. An encounter with enemies who accept same-sex relationships and gender equality changes her life. (This was apparently the first story in which Gentle played with the female soldier idea.)
What God Abandoned features as a minor character a young René Descartes as a member of an army at the beginning of the Thirty Years War. Another soldier is a Weerde, a person who can change sex but whose secret is discovered.
Unusually for Gentle The Pits Beneath the World is pure Science Fiction, set on a planet with seventeen moons orbiting a blue giant star twinned with a white dwarf. Pel is a young teenager accompanying a human expedition who puts herself in danger by revealing to the local inhabitants she isn’t an adult.
In Cast a Long Shadow a woman estranged from the father of her child encounters the creatures of darkness with whom he has made a pact to obtain from him his exercise book containing drawings of them.
A Sun in the Attic is again pure Science Fiction, set in a world whose moon was once inhabited but whose atmosphere is now only patrolled by machines. One of narrator Roslin’s two husbands has invented a telescope but the City Council isn’t keen on change.
A Shadow Under the Sea is set in the same milieu as Anukazi’s Daughter and concerns a sea creature attacking the boats which do the necessary fishing for inhabitants of the Hundred Isles. Spurlock has to go to the far south, past the Cold Lands, to enlist the help of a female shaman to trap the beast.
Human Waste examines an unusual response to the repair of the human body by nanotech.
Cartomancy: Conclusion rounds off the framing device.
In one of the afterwords Gentle mentions her discomfort with the short story form. She is good at long - often very long - fiction but her short work, as here, is certainly better than serviceable.
Sensitivity note: contains the words “niggers.”
August 17, 2019
This book is one of my favorite short story collections. I picked it up (my now ancient paperback edition) on the strength of Gentle's Ash series, and I devoured it while I was traveling on a tourbus through Scotland and England. I wish Gentle would write more in this vein, except for one story, Human Waste, which to its credit, comes with a warning. It needs one. It is a rough. Every other story in the collection is golden and perfect.
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what becom of me then
i want to walk in grapvienyard
the road of holy win
not to forget the fault
nndt to be right just me
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iam my
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it me
in plateaus of pomegrante
there gazalle
traped by oath
in cocy mission
where the secret slept underground
but over the sky there mission
betyred whom must be
what becom of me then
i want to walk in grapvienyard
the road of holy win
not to forget the fault
nndt to be right just me
iam not Anna Khidoana
the Acady woman
the dicorat of sky
the old God from syria
iam my
and i will walk to were the sun
road of another oath
it me
January 1, 2015
I love Mary Gentle's writing, so it came as no surprise that I loved this one too.
A collection of short stories, they all bear her unmistakeable brand. They take place in alternate histories, with very strong female characters, mostly swordswomen. They are full of accurate depictions of medieval life, and references to alchemy and hermetic sciences.
They are also very sexual, very explicit in their descriptions of the blood, filth, sickness and cruelty in such worlds, and often have themes of betrayal.
My favourite would undoubtedly be 'The Road to Jerusalem', primarily for the fantastic character of Knight-Lieutenant Tadmartin, but there's not a dull story here.
A collection of short stories, they all bear her unmistakeable brand. They take place in alternate histories, with very strong female characters, mostly swordswomen. They are full of accurate depictions of medieval life, and references to alchemy and hermetic sciences.
They are also very sexual, very explicit in their descriptions of the blood, filth, sickness and cruelty in such worlds, and often have themes of betrayal.
My favourite would undoubtedly be 'The Road to Jerusalem', primarily for the fantastic character of Knight-Lieutenant Tadmartin, but there's not a dull story here.
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October 21, 2007http://nhw.livejournal.com/141439.html[return][return]As it turns out I'd already read the two best stories here (one in another anthology and one on-line at infinity plus) but the others are at least acceptable and in some cases very good.
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January 9, 2010Amazon UK
January 14, 2013
Got 1/2 way through but didn't actually finish it. Life is too short to read books that don't scream "read me!".
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May 1, 2017Paperback
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