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The Eldar Sister
81 pages, Paperback
Published November 7, 2023
About the author
Ian Welke
26 books82 followersIan Welke writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror. His short stories have appeared in KZine, spacewesterns.com, Arcane II, Zombie Jesus and Other True Stories, and the American Nightmare anthology among others. His first novel, The Whisperer in Dissonance, was published by Omnium Gatherum in 2014. End Times at Ridgemont High is his second novel and has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
Before writing full time, Ian worked in the computer games industry. He was lucky enough to work at Blizzard Entertainment and at Runic Games. These days, when he’s not at his desk writing, Ian enjoys a variety of games. His favorites tend to be elaborate board games with many pieces and rules to confuse, though he’s happiest going mad with his characters in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.
Ian lived in Seattle for six years, enjoying the rain, but has returned home to Long Beach, California, where he schemes to find shelving to house all of the books he reads.
Before writing full time, Ian worked in the computer games industry. He was lucky enough to work at Blizzard Entertainment and at Runic Games. These days, when he’s not at his desk writing, Ian enjoys a variety of games. His favorites tend to be elaborate board games with many pieces and rules to confuse, though he’s happiest going mad with his characters in the Call of Cthulhu RPG.
Ian lived in Seattle for six years, enjoying the rain, but has returned home to Long Beach, California, where he schemes to find shelving to house all of the books he reads.
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November 18, 2023
There are a million stories in the City of Tides. And this is ... three of them.
Three of them rolled into one.
The Eldar Sister follows the endearingly sardonic Stessa Asho (Orc, Souse, and in the second half of his life Private Investigator) as he finds himself on the hunt for two missing (kidnapped?) girls. History, it seems, has repeated...not once, but twice. And we are treated to watching Asho working to thwart an evil cult during three distinct periods of his life.
Each thread of Asho's history and story are woven together expertly, the author using different tenses and different "persons" (as in first person, second persons, third person) to distinguish each narrative. The story wastes no time and no space moving the plot along. Or should I say plots...
The Eldar Sister is a pitch-perfect blend of noir (a genre he understands very well), dark humor and fantasy ... with a healthy seasoning of Lovecraftian something (not horror, but close). And Asho is an endearing character I would LOVE to see more of.
With The Eldar Sister, Mr. Welke has knocked it out of the park yet again.
Three of them rolled into one.
The Eldar Sister follows the endearingly sardonic Stessa Asho (Orc, Souse, and in the second half of his life Private Investigator) as he finds himself on the hunt for two missing (kidnapped?) girls. History, it seems, has repeated...not once, but twice. And we are treated to watching Asho working to thwart an evil cult during three distinct periods of his life.
Each thread of Asho's history and story are woven together expertly, the author using different tenses and different "persons" (as in first person, second persons, third person) to distinguish each narrative. The story wastes no time and no space moving the plot along. Or should I say plots...
The Eldar Sister is a pitch-perfect blend of noir (a genre he understands very well), dark humor and fantasy ... with a healthy seasoning of Lovecraftian something (not horror, but close). And Asho is an endearing character I would LOVE to see more of.
With The Eldar Sister, Mr. Welke has knocked it out of the park yet again.
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