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The Weerde #1
The Weerde: Book 1
In the Library of the Conspiracy, many theories are pursued in rare books and documents supplied by a caste of white-gloved librarians. Many wild-eyed researchers piece together their elaborate nonsense of Templars, vampires, and Illuminati.
But one theory weaves like a constant thread of darkness through human history. The rumour of an ancient race, more powerful than we are: elusive, terrifying, offering sexual frenzy but bringing madness and early death.
These are the tales of the Weerde. They gather at the edges of our settlements, they appear nightly on TV. They are not werewolves. But they are the shape-shifting predators of which occult legend speaks. They are plausible, charming, different... and very, very dangerous.
The Weerde contains eleven chilling stories that expose the terrifying truth behind the conspiracy. Their authors are:
Prologue: The Lady and/or the Tiger: I, by Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney.
A Wolf to Man, by Roz Kaveney.
Sunflower Pump, by Paul Cornell.
Rain, by Christopher Amies.
What God Abandoned, by Mary Gentle.
To the Bad, by Brian Stableford.
A Strange Sort of Friend, by Josephine Saxton.
Railway Mania, by Michael Fearn.
Blind Fate, by Liz Holliday.
A Change of Season, by Storm Constantine.
Going to the Black Bear, by Colin Greenland.
Ancient of Days, by Charles Stross.
Epilogue: The Lady and/or the Tiger: II, by Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney.
But one theory weaves like a constant thread of darkness through human history. The rumour of an ancient race, more powerful than we are: elusive, terrifying, offering sexual frenzy but bringing madness and early death.
These are the tales of the Weerde. They gather at the edges of our settlements, they appear nightly on TV. They are not werewolves. But they are the shape-shifting predators of which occult legend speaks. They are plausible, charming, different... and very, very dangerous.
The Weerde contains eleven chilling stories that expose the terrifying truth behind the conspiracy. Their authors are:
Prologue: The Lady and/or the Tiger: I, by Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney.
A Wolf to Man, by Roz Kaveney.
Sunflower Pump, by Paul Cornell.
Rain, by Christopher Amies.
What God Abandoned, by Mary Gentle.
To the Bad, by Brian Stableford.
A Strange Sort of Friend, by Josephine Saxton.
Railway Mania, by Michael Fearn.
Blind Fate, by Liz Holliday.
A Change of Season, by Storm Constantine.
Going to the Black Bear, by Colin Greenland.
Ancient of Days, by Charles Stross.
Epilogue: The Lady and/or the Tiger: II, by Neil Gaiman and Roz Kaveney.
365 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 30, 1992
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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 7, 2019
Lots of great stories set in an intriguing shared world universe.
The world of The Weerde is an interesting one ... perhaps it's time for Book 3?
The world of The Weerde is an interesting one ... perhaps it's time for Book 3?
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