Winged

by Joyce Chng

Winged contains two novelettes - The Basics of Flight and Phoenix With A Purpose.

SFF, steampunk and YA.

Winged. Flight. Two girls on the threshold of adulthood and filled with potential. Part coming-of-age story, part steampunk, part speculative fiction - Winged is a multi-leveled tale of two girls, in different worlds, both seeking their own paths.

357 pages, ebook

Published August 6, 2007

About the author

Joyce Chng (also spelled Ch’ng) lives in Singapore. They write science fiction and fantasy as well as YA and MG. Their short stories have appeared in The Apex Book of World SF II, The Future Fire and Multispecies Cities. Dragon Dancer (Lantana Publishing) is Joyce’s first picture book, celebrating dragon dancing and Lunar New Year; it was followed by Oyster Girl (Pepper Dog Press), a tribute to their grandmother and the hawker heritage in Singapore. For YA readers, Fire Heart is a fantasy book about swords and coming-of-age. They also write books for adults as J. Chng and urban fantasy as J. Damask. You can find Joyce at their website, or on X and Bluesky at @jolantru.

Reviews

[LaDawn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I tried. I really tried. Usually, if I get sucked into the story, I can avoid the editing problems, but the story didn't grab me on this one and the stilted language (nobody talked in contractions, even in excitement: "They are here, they are here!" Really? People would talk like that?) and all the capitalizations were just too much.