Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.
In a world of hostile clans loyal to meddling gods, Hessa is an Eangi: priestesses of the Goddess of War with the power to boil a man's brain and turn his bones to dust with a scream. Banished for disobeying her Goddess's command to murder a traveller, Hessa prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside.
Until raiders burn her village to the ground, leaving nothing of her future but ash. Without her Goddess's favor, Hessa has no place beside her family in the High Halls of the afterlife. She is the last of the Eangi.
Warriors from the cities to the south plow through her homelands, slaughtering everyone in their path. With legionaries, deceitful gods, and newly-awakened demons at every turn, Hessa burns through her enemies with the Eangi Fire in her soul. But her journey reveals a harrowing truth: the gods are dying. The High Halls of the afterlife are fading. And Hessa's trust in her Goddess weakens with every unheeded prayer.
Thrust into a battle between her Goddess and the old gods she imprisoned, Hessa realizes there is far more on the line than earning her place in the afterlife. Bigger, older powers slumber beneath the surface of her world. And they're about to wake up.
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2007 Nebula preliminary ballot
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- Category: Fandom
The works that have made it to the preliminary ballot for the 2007 Nebula awards have been announced. You can read many of the novellas online, links can be found from the Nebula site.
BSFA 2007 Awards Shortlists
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BSFA 2007 Awards Shortlists were announced on 21 January 2008.
BSFA is The British Science Fiction Association. BSFA was created 1958, when a group of leading authors, publishers, booksellers and fans decided that Britain needed an organisation to encourage science fiction in every form. Today BSFA unites members from Australia, Russia, Europe, USA, Canada and Argentina.
2007 World Fantasy Award Nominees
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- Category: Fandom
The World Fantasy Convention is an annual gathering (almost a reunion) of professionals, collectors, and others interested in the field of Light and Dark Fantasy art and literature. This year the gathering was at Saratoga, New York. The main features of the convention are the World Fantasy Awards.
The winners at this year are:
- Special Award, Non-Professional: Gary K. Wolfe
- Special Award, Professional: Ellen Asher
- Best Artist: Shaun Tan
- Best Collection: Map of Dreams, M. Rickert
- Best Anthology: Salon Fantastique, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- Best Short Fiction: “Journey Into the Kingdom”, M. Rickert
- Best Novella: “Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford
- Best Novel: Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe
- Life Achievement: Betty Ballantine & Diana Wynne Jones
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Finncon 2009 GoHs
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- Category: Fandom
Some Finncon 2009 Guest of Honours have already been announced! And they're really exciting names:
George R. R. Martin and Alastair Reynolds!
So Helsinki is the place to be in the 10th to 12th of July 2009!
More info to be announced at 2009.finncon.org
Robert Jordan has died
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Robert Jordan, born James Oliver Rigney, Jr, died on Sunday, 16th of September at the age of 58. He was diagnosed with amyloidosis in March 2006.
His most famous work is the Wheel of Time -sequence, which is now left incomplete. Perhaps it will be finished based on his notes.
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