The
good news about some of my favorite writers and their future books seem to be
piling in, but you’ll not see any trace of me complaining about it, on the
contrary. The latest such piece of news comes from Aliette de Bodard, one of the most talented and exciting voices of
modern speculative fiction, and Gollancz,
one of the major UK publishers of genre fiction. Following four years of
publishing short fiction (I would not even attempt to say that each new one was
better than the last considering that all of them are excellent stories) since
the release of her last novel, “Master
of the House of Darts”, the third entry in the “Obsidian and Blood” trilogy after “Servant of the Underworld” and “Harbinger of the Storm”, on 20th August 2015 Gollancz
will release Aliette de Bodard’s new novel, “House of Shattered Wings”. Plus a sequel of “House of Shattered
Wings”, yet untitled, since Gollancz acquired the rights for two novels written
by this amazing writer. “House of Shattered Wings” is set in Paris and promises
plenty of excellent things, beside the guarantee offered by Aliette de Bodard’s
talent.
In “House of Shattered
Wings”, Paris’s streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out
shell and the Seine runs black with ashes and rubble. De Bodard’s rich
storytelling brings three different voices together: a naive but powerful
Fallen angel, an alchemist with a self-destructive addition, and a young man
wielding spells from the Far East.
It seems next year I’ll have my hands full of
promising books, but this perspective is nothing but delightful.
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