The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster Scott Wilbanks Sourcebooks Landmark Release Date: August 4, 2015 The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster will be released on August 4, 2015. Be sure to reserve your copy today! Annabelle “Annie” Aster is, by choice, a most singular young lady. Or, “a sincere woman […]
Voyage of the Basilisk – A Memoir by Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Books Release Date: March 31, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3198-4 I want to be Lady Trent when I grow up. Okay, so I’m way past the age where I could look forward to being “grown up”, but I still […]
A Natural History of Dragons Marie Brennan TOR Books First Edition: February 5, 2013 ISBN 978-0-7653-3196-0 — ♦ — What a wonderful flight of fancy! Marie Brennan’s newest work, A Natural History of Dragons, is a delightful blend of Victoriana, fantasy and archaic science at its best. Told as the […]
On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.