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The Weerde #2
The Weerde, Book 2: The Book of the Ancients
Behind all conspiracies are the Weerde, an ancient race of shape-changers that have manipulated humanity throughout history.
Behind the Weerde lurk the Ancients, giant semi-immortal mutants whose vast size and dark knowledge make them the gods and dragons of myth.
In this sequel to the acclaimed The Weerde: Book One, we learn the truth about our own century—from the rise of Chinese communism to the gang wars of '30s L.A., from the astronomers of Hawking's Cambridge to the bureaucrats and secret policemen of Gorbachev's Russia, more has been going on than meets the eye. And the Ancients are behind it all.
The best young names in British science fiction and fantasy are brought together in this second book of revelations. These are dark secrets it is dangerous for you to know.
Prologue: Raised Voices in a Reading Room: I, by Roz Kaveney.
Imaginary Time, by Stephen Baxter.
The Girl Who Changed Everything, by Colin Greenland.
Deep in the Native Land , by Michael Ibeji.
Ignorance of Perfect Reason, by Roz Kaveney.
Sounds and Sweet Airs, by Graham Higgins.
Serpent's Blood , by Molly Brown.
Cover Story, Liz Holliday.
The If Game, by Paula Wakefield.
The Lions in the Desert, by David Langford.
The Missing Martian,by Marcus L. Rowland.
The Deconstruction of the Known World, by Elizabeth M. Young.
Red, Hot and Dark, by Charles Stross.
Epilogue: Raised Voices in a Reading Room: II , by Roz Kaveney.
Behind the Weerde lurk the Ancients, giant semi-immortal mutants whose vast size and dark knowledge make them the gods and dragons of myth.
In this sequel to the acclaimed The Weerde: Book One, we learn the truth about our own century—from the rise of Chinese communism to the gang wars of '30s L.A., from the astronomers of Hawking's Cambridge to the bureaucrats and secret policemen of Gorbachev's Russia, more has been going on than meets the eye. And the Ancients are behind it all.
The best young names in British science fiction and fantasy are brought together in this second book of revelations. These are dark secrets it is dangerous for you to know.
Prologue: Raised Voices in a Reading Room: I, by Roz Kaveney.
Imaginary Time, by Stephen Baxter.
The Girl Who Changed Everything, by Colin Greenland.
Deep in the Native Land , by Michael Ibeji.
Ignorance of Perfect Reason, by Roz Kaveney.
Sounds and Sweet Airs, by Graham Higgins.
Serpent's Blood , by Molly Brown.
Cover Story, Liz Holliday.
The If Game, by Paula Wakefield.
The Lions in the Desert, by David Langford.
The Missing Martian,by Marcus L. Rowland.
The Deconstruction of the Known World, by Elizabeth M. Young.
Red, Hot and Dark, by Charles Stross.
Epilogue: Raised Voices in a Reading Room: II , by Roz Kaveney.
386 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 29, 1993
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About the author
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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October 2, 2019
Another re-read, definitely worth it because there are some real gems in here. My favourite was 'Cover Story'.
October 3, 2012
It keeps your mind amused
might-read
August 11, 2015"The Lions in the Desert"
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