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kateelliottLinda Nagata is an award winning sff writer living the fine state of Hawaii, as do I, although on a different island.
Here's a chance to preview her forthcoming fantasy novel THE WILD.
I have read a version of this novel.
First of all, I'm already a fan of Linda's writing, having read a number of her sf novels before I ever met her due to our being lonely sff writers in the uttermost West (Hawaii being near the international date line past which it is the next day).
But nevertheless, THE WILD is a beautifully written fantasy novel of a type I can't really describe because it is utterly her own. It is, perhaps, elegaic; it is about a fallen world, in a way; in an odd way without being at all alike it reminds me of Cherryh's Morgaine books although I emphasize the stories have nothing in common -- but there is something of the end and beginning of times, that atmosphere and the deep emotional throb in the heart in which hopelessness and hope war and yet what always survives is honor and determination. The world and the culture informs every decision the characters make, and yet the world building is done with the lightest of hands while the human dilemmas are real and poignant. It's just lovely.
Here's a chance to preview her forthcoming fantasy novel THE WILD.
I have read a version of this novel.
First of all, I'm already a fan of Linda's writing, having read a number of her sf novels before I ever met her due to our being lonely sff writers in the uttermost West (Hawaii being near the international date line past which it is the next day).
But nevertheless, THE WILD is a beautifully written fantasy novel of a type I can't really describe because it is utterly her own. It is, perhaps, elegaic; it is about a fallen world, in a way; in an odd way without being at all alike it reminds me of Cherryh's Morgaine books although I emphasize the stories have nothing in common -- but there is something of the end and beginning of times, that atmosphere and the deep emotional throb in the heart in which hopelessness and hope war and yet what always survives is honor and determination. The world and the culture informs every decision the characters make, and yet the world building is done with the lightest of hands while the human dilemmas are real and poignant. It's just lovely.